Stephen King Novel Tier List Ranking - Part 5 - The Horror Show - Hail To Stephen King EP226
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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THE HORROR SHOW Host Jaime' En Fuego here, along with an awesome assist from Cecil Laird, to proceed into our 4th Year of King coverage as I proceed through a five-part journey of doing a #TierListRanking of every single #StephenKing novel there is. We FINALLY conclude with his fifth decade (so far) of 2014-Present on this very special new segment for #HailToStephenKing with YOU the Ka-Tet of viewers and fellow Constant Readers.
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This whole series of videos... outstanding! I'm putting this in the S category.
Thanks very much! Lol
Another King video in which Jaime makes me want to break my entire reading schedule to read Revival. Also, Finders Keepers is wonderful...makes End of Watch even more painful. Really enjoyed this ride, guys!
Dude! Mike Flanagan on Revival?! That is perfect! That is some of the best news I've heard all year.
Revival is my fave King, also happy to see Cell placed so high, it is really underrated, has one of the best beginnings ever
I've been waiting for the part 5! Thank you for releasing it! 😍
I really enjoyed this tier ranking. Great job.
I’m new to the channel as of this morning. I listened to all 5 vids in this series while cleaning my house today. While I don’t always agree with the rankings I enjoyed hearing the reason for the ranking and perspective on each novel. Great content for a Constant Reader like myself. Well done.
Thanks very much!
Great ranking you guys! Much appreciated. Can't wait to deep dive into the Dark Tower more.
Solid solid solid. Thoughtful list. I would change nothing . Great stuff
Loved the Outsider. Thats the book I recommend people read when they say they don't like Stephen King. Great book - loved it
Great series of videos, Fuego (even if you broke my heart with that D for Under The Dome)! Looking forward to the film tier ranking.
You guys rock. You should have your own tv show because the chemistry and banter works so well.
Here’s my ranking of the ones I’ve read of King
Carrie - S
Salem’s Lot - S
The Shining - S
Rage - F
The Stand - S
The Long Walk - C
The Dead Zone - C
Fire starter - B
Roadwork - B
Cujo - A
The Running Man - B
Christine - A
The Gunslinger - C
Pet Sematary - A
The Eyes of the Dragon - C
The Talisman - C
IT - S
The Drawing of the Three - A
Misery - A
The Waste Lands - B
Insomnia - B
The Green Mile - S
Desperation - A
Wizard and Glass - B
Bag of Bones - S
The girl who loved Tom Gordon - F
Dream catcher - D
Wolves of the Calla - S
Song of Susannah - D
Liseys Story - A
Under the Dome - D
11/22/63 - S
The Wind through the keyhole - D
Doctor sleep - A
Mr Mercedes - A
Finders Keepers - S
End of watch - C
Thinking I may be watching this while I'm at work today!
Great video guys :)
The first this I read from Stephen King was Elevation. I bought it at a train station and figured it would be a nice short train read. Really didn't like it so it took me a while to pick up something else. Next thing I read was Pet Sematary. Totally changed my opinion and I'm on a King binge now. Already read The Shining and Doctor Sleep, currently reading Carrie and probably going to read everything I'm interested in in chronological order. Thanks for giving me a nice overview!
i read Revival two months ago and freaking loved it! Love Mike Flanagan also and i can't wait to see his adaptation,especially his vision of that really disturbing ending. In a recent interview he said that he completed the first draft of the script and that it'll be bleak and mean and cynical,so i think we are in really good hands. Hope he will direct too!
Watched the whole series in one sitting. You sir have earned a subscriber!!!
Darn, thats commitment!
Hey are you excited for "Later". Loved this series. Loved your explanations. Keep it up guys.
I was super hyped until I found out that it is going to be a short novella type book. Now, I am just hyped.
Great list, Sir Fuego! We don't agree on everything, but that's the thing about subjectivity. It's always nice to listen to someone else's opinion if they aren't being an ass about it.
I decided to cut my S tier down to three books and brought everything else down to A. It just feels better that way, as I really do love my favourites on a whole other level.
Btw. I finished Dr Sleep yesterday and I'm extremely torn about that book. I really liked the first half, but the second half didn't do it for me. Darn.
Nice job! Love the list. My changes would be moving up Carrie and The Shining to S tier and Needful things and Lisey,s story to A. Well done!
Love these videos… great job! Just have to say, I think you owe Elevation a re-read. The character in the story was not “losing weight.” Something more mysterious was happening. And since it’s not a horror story, but more of a fantasy and a parable, I think that makes it quite unique among King’s work.
Long, long time viewer. First time commenting.
SPOILER
I used to think 'Last Castle Rock Story' from Needful Things was meant to be the last story to take place in Castle Rock. Perhaps that was King's original intentions.
Now I like to look at it as foreshadowing to the novels ending. Gaunt gets away, and the town is left in utter destruction and death. Like Castle Rock will never bounce back and is the figurative death of the town.
What do you all think?
Personally love Castle Rock and glad to see more stories after Needful Things.
We liked season 2 way more but we still maintain that a DERRY series would be waaay better!
Wow dead zone that high. I found it OK but it should have started where it ended with him solving crimes with the police. That would have been so good.
Screw whoever thumb downed these videos!! These two guys are great!!
I'd have pushed Desperation up a level - loved the emotion running through that book. Much like IT it deserves a better reworking, be it for TV or film. Great series of reviews though, dude. I've thoroughly enjoyed it.
I really dig your format here, guys. Very cool. In this video, I agree with most everything, except Revival. I have a lot of questions about some of the other rankings, as well. Cell and The Talisman are an A? The Shining is a B; which is also where you have Thinner? Not sure that computes. Finally, Bag of Bones gets an F. Can't agree with that. Solid B. Certainly as good as Buick 8 or Duma Key. However, this is all my opinion, which has no impact on what you think. Good job. Keep it up.
Based on those results The average Stephen King Novel is C+ to B-.
The math is 6 points for each S, 5 points for each A, 4 points for each B, 3 points for each D, and 1 point for each F.
The average is 3.91
Im new to Stephen King. Elevation was the first book I read. I really liked it. But it’s the first King book I read and I been reading more of his books. Now I know the book is not quite strong but I did like it when I read it
Loved this tier ranking series. I've been into Stephen King since the early 2010s when I was in high school and even though I own a ton of his books now, I've still only ready about 10 of them, so it was great to hear your thoughts on his books over the course of his career. Is there any possibility that you guys would consider doing something similar for his short story collections? I've generally liked the ones that I've read so far and I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Edit: Typed this before the end of the video. Excited for the short story collection video!
I read The Institute before I got around to watching Stranger Things (yeah, I know...) and for that reason I rank it a lot higher, A+ or maybe even S. I just love the story and how it develops, there's never a dull moment in the book like there is in a lot of Kings A/S tier works. Jamie, if you had read The Institute before you watched Stranger Things, do you think you would also have rated it higher?
I haven't watched stranger things so I guess I'm safe. I plan to read it in the near future.
Love Sam Jackson and Russell Crowe but that is a really odd casting choice for Revival. Totally agree.
What is Jaime’s shirt from? It’s driving me crazy. I can’t remember.
This is awesome 👏
The show for Mr. Mercedes is on Amazon Prime. USA only has first two seasons but will get season 3 eventually. Season 3 ended in a way that setup a potential season 4.
Imagine being the one person who disliked this video.
*FLAGG DID IT*
Plagued with spoilers. I had to mute comments on the whole Hodges trilogy and Survival. Had he cut details and comments length by four, this video which is great, would be even better.
I gave tried several times to read Sleeping Beauties and cannot get thru it. I have never had this issue with a SK book before.
Don't know if it'll get you through Sleeping Beauties, but audio books are often a great help with slowish books.
thanks finally! 60 books were ranked.
Turned AdBlock off for you guys :) Highly enjoyed your ranking thus far
Thanks very much!
I am absolutley not agreeing with putting the Shining in B..
Shining does belong right next to Misery, and Pet Sematary imo
Other than that great done ;)
Been a great series though. More and more please lol short stories next.
29:30 Yeah, King almost certainly has no say in that sort of thing. He writes his books, and other people deal with everything else. This, to me, looks like a contract obligation. He probably didn't have a completed novel when his contract with Scribner said he should have one, so he was like, "Well, I have this thing if you want it." Then the publisher began to drool over the low print cost, and high value of the King name.
*speculation*
I've recently finished reading End of watch and I must say I was utterly disappointed by the ending. SPOILERS Most of the story was really interesting: Hodges dealing with aging, Holly developing more and more social skills, the addition of mental powers in Brady (which didn't bother me despite being too fictional, in fact, I found that to be quite fun). However, I felt like the ending and the final confrontation between Hodges and Brady was way too quick. I didn't feel satisfied. After all those years of enmity between those characters, Hodges and the crew just beat Brady in a couple of pages, not much dialogue, not much fighting. I was expecting a mental battle of Hodges and Brady where the inspector would endure Brady's mental control or something of the sorts. Instead, Brady's ability almost doesn't appear and is killed pretty quickly.
Another issue I have with the novel is the lack of killing of important characters. The only characters killed by the antagonist are the ones that we just met. The reader never feels the main and supportive characters are in danger (for instance, I'd have killed Barbara, maybe hypnotize Izzy or Pete, etc.).
Lastly, something that caught my attention is that Janey is not mentioned even once during all of the story as far as I can remember. It's like Hodges completely forgot about her and Brady doesn't even mention her when he fights Hodges.
All in all, I feel like the story had a lot of potential but was greatly wasted due to the things I mentioned. I wonder if someone else had these feelings after reading the book.
Let me know :)
The Institute is Number 4 on my all time SK list!! It's the best thriller I ever read. I was excited to get back to this story after a break. For me it pays off for hundreds of pages. Tim is one of my favourite SK characters. BTW I never saw Stranger Things. I have issues with more than a few of your rankings.... but C for The Institute? no dude... And he has at least 12 S tiers. Oh and I was under the impression Stranger Things was influenced by King, not the other way around?
I think all of us have (slightly) different lists and it's a matter of subjectivity (as Jaime always says). Me, I would bump The Shining up to A+ and put Dr Sleep somewhere in C territory. Christine's also an A for me as is the Drawing of the Three.
I haven't read The Institute yet, but it definitely sounds like it's up my alley and I really loved Stranger Things S1 (was kinda torn about S2 and disliked S3).
Just because King inspired Stranger Things, doesn't mean it can't work the reverse way. King could have very easily taken cues from ST for more recent books. Judd Apatow was aping Kevin Smith's style from the start and Smith then made Zach & Miri in the vein of an Apatow movie. It can happen.
@@TheHorrorShowChannel Nice point.
If it's any consolation, I've just finished it and I think it's really good. Jamie's criticism of The Institute doesn't amount to much more than baseless conjecture anyway, so you just keep on loving what you love.
Where would you rank Billy Summers?
We did a part 6 where he talks about it!
hi! just found this guys. i know I'm late here but I have a spreadsheet with all of King's releases where u can track your reading so let me know if u'd like that
Revival is top 5 for me. Im almost done with the BH trilogy and the story as a whole is an A tier for sure!!
yes!!
Wow Very different tastes on King. Been reading since JR High 1980 some of my favs are Christine, Cujo, Shining, Talisman, The Stand... a few of which you didnt like Very Much While you gave revival an "s" and its my most hated King novel ever.
The one dislike is a dream catcher fan.
There's nothing wrong with liking Dreamcatcher, though.
Lasombra I agree. I was implying that they would dislike the video because of the low ranking it got.
@@Im_mashing No worries!
Might have to bump Salem’s lot to s tier...shining to a
The Shining is definitely A tier for me. Such a cozy read, I just love the setting.
I agree...same with Salem’s lot
@@justinperry2432 I haven't read Salem's Lot yet, even though the book's been sitting on my shelf for 11 years. I don't know why, really I don't. It might just be my next King book, though.
@@justinperry2432 Got around to reading 'Salem's Lot. It's on my A tier as well. Really, really good (although reading Wolves of the Calla first turned out to be a mistake)!
Am I the only one who enjoyed Elevation? 🧍🏻♀️
GBB over Dreamcatcher?? Aww you cut me deep bro
The 3 novels with Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney are the Bill Hodges trilogy. That is followed by The Outsider duology, which is The Outsider and the novella If It Bleeds. Those 5 are the Holly Gibney pentalogy.
I rage quit End Of Watch
Maybe I missed something but I have always disliked The Dead Zone. I guess I should re-read this or something but I've always considered it one I really disliked.
Why... Could you explain a little as I am planning to buy and read it
@@yushdeep1839 I just don't remember getting too into it. I remember really enjoying the beginning of the story at the carnival but recollect the story just falling off a bit for me. Could be that I expected it to be a bit scarier and more traditional King rather than his more literary work. Granted, I read this a few years ago and did it on audiobook so that could've been my problem. I may give it another shot next time I'm looking to pick something up.
Revival is not S...
you are right it should be higher