Stephen King TIER RANKING! Picking out some of my favourites & least favourites in under 19 minutes!
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
- Happy birthday Stephen King! To celebrate, I thought it was time to tackle a tier ranking from his entire bibliography.
In this video, I'll give you a spoiler-free tier ranking, from F to S. For each level, I'll three books along with a couple of reasons why they sit where they sit.
Get involved in the comments and let me know some of YOUR picks - give me one from the top, one from the middle, and one from the bottom!
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S+: The Shining
S: Duma Key
A: Joyland
B: Cujo
C: The Regulators
F: Roadwork
Nice!
Well done Dave. You tricked me. I was all set to write a comment mentioning The Dead Zone and then your broke out the S+ tier.
That’s how I roll 😂
My S tier has:
Cujo, The Shining and The Stand.
A Tier has:
Later, Duma Key and You Like It Darker
My B-tier has:
Rose Madder, IT, Finders Keepers.
C-tier has:
Gerald’s Game, Mr Mercedes and Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
In my D-tier, we have:
The Talisman, Cycle of the Werewolf and The Eyes of the Dragon.
E tier has:
Insomnia, End of Watch and The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon.
F tier has:
Rage, Wind Through The Keyhole and The Colorado Kid
Great video as usual and happy birthday to the King of horror!
Thanks for sharing such a thorough list!
The Stand D! Utter madness hahah Dave I am loving this video despite my disagreement with some rankings lol
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S+: The Stand; Night Shift
S: Salem's Lot; The Long Walk
A: Carrie
B: The Shining
C: The Dead Zone; Firestarter
F: Rage
Thanks for sharing!
Lovely ranking! 11.22.63 is on my top as well. In my opinion it's a modern classic everyone should read!
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For my tier rating I’d put the Wizard and Glass in F tier, I’d put Needful Things in C Tier, and I’d put Salem’s lot in my S tier.
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Dark Tower in the middle makes total sense to me. Rating each book for itself, I have some in the S/S+ tiers (like The Waste Lands) and one in F (Song of Susannah).
Another S/S+ is Revival.
In C tier would maybe put Holly as well.
Nice, thanks for sharing these 😊
Doing a chronological read through (midway through 90s thus far). I listed below a couple of my more hot-takey choices - though there’s only one book in each of my D and F tiers so far:
S+ (top 5): The Waste Lands
S (5/5): The Dark Half
A (4.5/5): Eyes of the Dragon
B (4/5): Pet Sematary
C (3.5/5): Carrie
D (3/5): Rage
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Nice! Thanks for sharing - I love his 90s output so much, enjoy going back to them!
All 9 Stephen King books I've read, ranked
1. The Stand (S+)
2. IT (S+)
3. The Long Walk (S)
4. The Shining (S)
5. On Writing (S)
6. Needful Things (A)
7. Doctor Sleep (C)
8. 11/22/63 (C)
9. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (E)
Thanks for sharing!
I will choose only one book for each category(F,C,S)because I have read few king's books so far.
S misery
C carrie
F the stand
Alternative pick for high position 11/22/63
Thank you so much for this amazing video! Your channel is the best on youtube hands down!
Thanks so much!
I am just going give my S teir, The Stand, Needful Things, and Dolores Claiborne (DC I read at work in two days between calls I was taking. I was so pissed people were bothering me with billing questions when I had this great book I wanted finish.)
That’s a solid top tier!
So it was an opportunity to quickly put together a Tier Ranking of all the King I read so far. With the each ranking having at least 3 books in some I did enjoy more that it looks like. Anyway here it is:
- [ ] S: Gearald’s Game, The Green Mile, Pet Sematary
- [ ] A: The Shining, Needful Things, Night Shift
- [ ] B: Billy Summers, Doctor Sleep, Skeleton Crew, Different Seasons
- [ ] C: Charlie, Joyland, Carrie
- [ ] D: Cujo, Nightmare and Dreamscapes, The Long Walk
- [ ] E: Roadwork, The Dark Half, Four Past Midnight
- [ ] F: Desolation, The Gunslinger, The Tommyknockers
Your top two tiers are 👌👌
Just started this and I know I’ll disagree soon enough but wholeheartedly agree with your Talisman rating.
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Glad you made a tier list- i just can't- I like them all (well almost all) too much. My question is: who is more trumpy- Stillson from Dead Zone or Big Jim from Under The Dome?
Oooooffff that is a big question! It’s a pretty even split really, because Trump is close to having power again and that could be catastrophic - and I can totally picture him kicking a dog to death too - but he’s also a petty, fat loser like Big Jim. Trump is like the bastard love child of both those characters!
@DaveReadsKing Bastard love child of both those characters is eerily accurate, and I wish I had thought of it!
Dave if you have Shudder this coming week Horror's Greatest are doing a special on King adaptations :)
Oh nice! I don’t have Shudder but really should sort it sometime
My s tier short story collection is nightmares and dreamscapes and for his other work it’s Salem’s lot, rose madder and fire starter
Love that you have Rose Madder so high! It would be A tier for me I think, but close to an S
@@DaveReadsKing I’m happy, it’s so underrated honestly even though I think it’s better then a lot of his very popular works
ok
F - geralds game or fairy tale
C - the shining
S - dolores claiborne
S+ - salems lot
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Haha, you got me with the S+ category 😂
Sike!
You forgot Night Shift! I assume that would be A or S tier. Also Skeleton Crew and Full Dark, No Stars.
If I had picked more than three per tier I would have definitely included them…Night Shift and Full Dark would be A, Skeleton Crew would be B or C - the highs are great but the lows are pretty awful, at least imo
ha ha, yeah, you got me, that was pretty funny... nice one!
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Well This was a great list. I was so glad to see IT and Pet Sematary on here and I don't care if that's cheating. I'm sorry, but on the X for me would be the Tommy knockers. I tried to read it.... I really did but I couldn't even finish it that's how bored I got with it. Maybe it deserves a reread. It started out pretty good and I do think there's a book in there somewhere. Next would be desperation. I thought it started out really good but it kind of lost me near to the end. The C tear, I think I'd have to put the Stand. I thought it was a great book but it did get draggy at the part where theyr' rebuilding and I thought the ending could have been way better. I know most say it's his masterpiece but i dont' know if I agree with that. I did enjoy the book and i'd probably read it again. I think I have way more on the S list for the top. I have to put Christine for all of the reasons u mentioned and there are some really great kills in it. I often reread this one. Carrie of course, The shining I think is one of the scariests books I've ever read. I have to talk about Cujo because I've only read it once and it bothered me so much but that's what horror's all about. Pet Sematary I think is some of his best work and I agree with you on his writing about grief. I think he has written it so acurately especially for such a horrific loss. And i agree with you on reading this book as you get older. I actually think it's scarier because we understand grief and death more as an adult than we did as children. And of course IT is way up there too! I love hoe he writes for the losers club and Pennywise was really scary. I may have more to add to this list especially for the top. Awesome video!
Some excellent choices here, thank you!
Your S+ tier is spot on if obviously add The Stand as that’s my all time favourite but all of yours are absolutely stunning books.
Thanks! 😊
@@DaveReadsKing you’re most welcome.