Tier ranking every Stephen King book I've read

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Tier ranking every Stephen King book I've read

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Tier ranking all 32 Stephen King books that I have read from peak all the way down to ew brother ew and everything in between.
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@jakefromstatefarm1405 Ай бұрын

11/22/63 - my favorite fiction book of all time

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

I've heard it's great.

@nharber9837 Ай бұрын

I LOVE The Shining! It’s definitely top tier for me, for sure. My favorite book ever. I’ve read it several times now and always pull for Jack, even though I know full well what’s going to happen. He, Danny and Wendy are such great characters and I just always want the best for them. The changes made for the movie are a net loss for me save for omitting the hedge animals. I can’t imagine how that could effectively be done on film without just looking cheesy. I do feel like the maze is a better visual representation of what’s happening than the hedges would have been. Wish they had kept virtually everything else though. Danny and Wendy are such good characters, I wish the movie only folks could get to know them too.

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

Yea, I think the hedge animals, especially back then, would have looked really bad on screen. Nowadays they would be bad cgi lol. I did like the hedge maze in the movie. Have you read Doctor Sleep and if so what did you think about it being a big fan of The Shining?

@markgillespie3971 Ай бұрын

@@BradProctorReads Have you seen the 1997 'Stephen King's The Shining'? They did the hedge animals in terrible 90s CGI!

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

I've never seen that version but know that it is a much more faithful adaptation than the Kubrick movie was. I'll have to see if I can find it somewhere to watch.

@markgillespie3971 Ай бұрын

@@BradProctorReads Yes, very faithful. Unfortunately it's not remotely scary, has a very annoying Danny and some dodgy CGI. But I think it's worth a watch, it has some effective scenes and Rebecca De Mornay is a very good Wendy.

@toddhill7483 Ай бұрын

Excellent video. Some recommendations which did not appear: Different Seasons, Under the Dome, Duma Key, Desperation, Needful Things, Skelton Crew, Full Dark No Stars, Four Past Midnight. Thanks again.

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

Thanks, Todd! All the ones you mentioned are on my to read list of King's books.

@fiberartsyreads Ай бұрын

This was so fun! Man-Fairy Tale did us both so dirty. 😆

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

That book did, didn't it. I really struggled with wanting to read anything after finishing that book.

@iwonamezyd5489 8 күн бұрын

Haha this is so interesting to hear, Fairy Tale was the book that got me out of my reading slump last year! I really loved it. My top Stephen King book is IT

@BradProctorReads 8 күн бұрын

Glad to hear that you liked Fairy Tale. IT is such a fantastic book. The ending is so bittersweet.

@jrgennybo4726 8 күн бұрын

Great video! Stephen King is a fantastic author🔥Currently reading Under the Dome and it’s really good so far!

@BradProctorReads 8 күн бұрын

Thanks! Under the Dome is one I still need to get to.

@holdensagan 13 күн бұрын

Agree with you 100 percent on number one. Salem's Lot is his best. I think it's the best paced novel he ever wrote. Curious as to why. It's probably due to his editor who more than likely became less effective with subsequent novels once King became so popular that he was granted carte blanche.

@CliffsDarkGems Ай бұрын

Great Tier Ranking! I am looking forward to both Billy Summers and Fairy Tale, we shall see. 😂I actually loved The Gunslinger as well as the entire Dark Tower series, will be doing a re-read soon. Salem's Lot is awesome. Joyland was an awesome 5 star coming of age story for me. I enjoyed Rose Madder, but the supernatural ending was underwhelming. Ka is a wheel, I agree that it was a great ending. More importantly, Roland sets off with additional "tools." The Waste Lands is one of my favorite books of all time, top tier for me. I think The Institute is one of King's more underrated novels, I loved it. Wizard and Glass is awesome and Roland's backstory is incredibly moving and tragic. You need to read The Stand and 11/22/63. . Great video!

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

Thanks, Cliff! I hope that you enjoy Billy Summers and Fairy Tale more than I did. After finishing the Dark Tower I did appreciate The Gunslinger a lot more than I did before. 11/22/63 is one I hear nothing but great things about so I do need to get to that one sometime soon. I started The Stand a year or so ago and got 400ish pages in but then got distracted by other books and haven't revisited it again. I was really enjoying it though and will probably start it over from the beginning when I do go back.

@CliffsDarkGems Ай бұрын

@@BradProctorReads I hope you enjoy 11/22/63 when you get to it! It really is a magnificent novel, in my opinion. Happy Reading!

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

I think I'll enjoy it quite a bit.

@danny6801 Ай бұрын

I'm on Susanna's song now, after the dark tower series I'm gonna read your peaks next. I looooved misery, it's what got me into king. You need to read The Stand! Randall flag and a couple others mentioned in the dark towers series too, I love it.

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

Wishing you long days and pleasant nights on your journey towards the tower! How are you liking the series so far? I did start The Stand and got 400ish pages in but then got distracted by other books and haven't revisited it yet. I was really enjoying it though. Misery was so good. One of the times that both the movie and the book are great.

@peterconlon8234 17 күн бұрын

Interesting ranking...thanks for sharing

@BradProctorReads 17 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@tmoon9297 Ай бұрын

The Stand is his magnum opus

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

I started reading it, just need to go back and finish it.

@Carvaka 4 күн бұрын

I think that Desperation does a better job at capturing what The Stand was going for

@MrKurtykurt Ай бұрын

Sometimes…….dead is betta!

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

💀🐈

@Mae-hx2ml Ай бұрын

Currently halfway through Wolves of the Calla, in the Telling Tales section which does slow down.

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

Yea, that's the section that was slower for me too.

@Anthony-cj2ju Ай бұрын

Please read Desperation! It’s one of my favorite SK books. Note that it’s 100% better than The Regulators and a completely different story.

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

I plan to read Desperation some day. I've heard that most people either like one or the other when it comes to those two books. I'm hoping I like Desperation a lot more than I did Regulators.

@nelsonwilliams6006 21 күн бұрын

Goated take on book 7 of Dark Tower. I don’t get why the ending gets a lot of hate

@BradProctorReads 21 күн бұрын

I don't get the hate for the ending either. It's one of King's best endings with everything coming full circle. I get chills whenever I go back and read the last few pages of The Dark Tower.

@painface98 Ай бұрын

I agree on Elevation, the idea was cool but then become something pointless and I never finished it.

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

If that concept would have been fleshed out in a longer story and actual show how scary that would be it could have been so much better. Instead it was just like, "I don't like my neighbors but now we are friends, the end."

@bradtaulbee5928 2 күн бұрын

Need to read Green Mile

@BradProctorReads 2 күн бұрын

I've got a copy, two actually. I've only ever heard nothing but great things about it.

@currentofthesnake8486 Ай бұрын

23:58 I read it through in one week

@BradProctorReads Ай бұрын

That's quick!

@seagull8415 19 күн бұрын

It staggers me how devoted King fans are despite the amount of mediocrity and sometimes truly terrible books. Independent authors struggle to get published or shelf space while King publishes his used toilet paper.

@BradProctorReads 19 күн бұрын

With the volume of books King has written, which is 80ish, there are bound to be some that readers don't like. No one is perfect and it'd be impossible to write so much and have everything you've written be perfect. Even if you are not a fan to say that he publishes his used toilet paper is just a garbage take. I agree that it is hard for indie and small press authors to get seen by a wide audience and have their books stocked in brick and mortar stores. I'm a big fan of indie publishing and support a ton of those books and authors on this channel. I have way more videos talking about indie small press books than I do about Stephen King.