10 Stephen King books that everyone should read

1. N.

Pale and neulybayuschiysya, N. He looks me in the eye. And in front of me - the invisible bird, tearing it to pieces.

The magnificent story keeps in suspense until the last. Private accountant suddenly confronted with an ancient evil that is trying to break into our world. From his actions depends on the security of all mankind. Real monster exhausting, causes the main character in the analyst cabinet and eventually brings to suicide.

It's hard to be a god, but even harder to be an ordinary man, on whose shoulders fell the task to save the world. strength test passes from one character to another. Several people were killed in the battle for balance. Who will be the next in the chain?

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2. Duma Key

One can not close the door to the past, but his ability to make some corrections and move on.

Edgar Freemantle, a successful businessman, loving husband and father, then the absurd and terrible accident lost a part of themselves, left without a right hand. I could not stand tantrums wife, estranged children and old friends. In exchange, the protagonist has acquired an amazing opportunity to portray on canvas what is not, and what will be in the future.

secluded location and disaster recovery Edgar chooses the picturesque island of Duma Key. The outward beauty of the quiet village of hiding terrible secrets and monsters, which can not wait to get their hands on the main character. Evil spirits communicate with Edgar through his paintings, wonderful and terrible in his doom.

The main character will have to deal not only with the terrible secrets of the island and its inhabitants, but also with himself, to finally accept the fact that you can not change.

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3. hopelessness

God is there, but who told you that he is good.

Battleground between good and evil became deserted town of hopelessness. If you pass by the quiet of American backwoods, nesites away without looking back. The heroes of the novel did not. Therefore we put in terrible story involving several freaking out the locals and one of the ancient and evil spirit, a thousand years waited in the wings deep underground in the Nevada desert.

In the novel, King raises questions about God, his involvement in the lives of people and human responsibility for their actions. The main characters confront evil and in the process learn themselves to find out what faults have led them to the city, and who is to blame for the deaths of innocent souls.

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4. Pet cemetery

Probably, there is no limits of horror that man can experience.

Young Creed family - Louis, Rachel and a couple of kids - moving into a new home. Everything would be perfect, if very close to the house did not pass a highway on which time and again have an enormous trucks. The big surprise for the family Creed turned and abandoned Indian cemetery where local used to bury pets.

At the cemetery has its own secrets. Them and discovers Louis Creed after burying a pet who died under the wheels of the truck. From this moment begins a series of misfortunes.

Soon die, and young son Creed. With the loss of loved ones almost impossible to reconcile. And if there is a chance to get the child back to life, why not take a chance and do not try to cheat the laws of nature. Terrible denouement awaits everyone involved in this story.

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5. rebirth

- God ceased to be important for people - said somehow my mother after the service, when the congregation was very little. - But the day will come when they will regret it.

What Dreams May Come? Of course, in hell. This convinced the main characters of the novel, despairing musician and possessed priest electricity. Heartache and the loss of his wife and young son converted believer priest Charles Jacobs in apostate, fairground quack and the mad experimenter.

Jacobs with the "secret power" trying to cure a drug addict rocker Jamie Morton dependence. But the treatment makes a lot of side effects, although allowing to solve the mystery and find out what awaits us at the end of the tunnel. The results are terrible: there is no heaven or hell. Only emptiness and chaos.

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6. It

How could sometimes adult children hate their power. How can hate!

One of the most terrifying works of King tells the story of a group of teenagers who were forced to challenge the ancient evil. Guys bravely fighting the vile monster who kidnaps innocent souls.

The whole history of the town of Derry based on blood. And new victims craves monster, not accustomed to meet resistance. overcoming fears and doubt, the main characters are sent in the guise of the evil clown in oblivion. But for how long? Children's fears are not left behind closed doors in the family home, and continue to haunt the company of brave men into adulthood. There will come a time when they will have to again look into the eyes of evil.

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7. Cujo

The world is full of monsters, and they are always, at any moment, might pounce on the innocent and helpless.

Cute doggie - it's not about the St. Bernard Cujo, who recently completely unlike yourself. Cujo walking around leads to tragic consequences, from which the entire city suffered. Former gentle demure now resembles furious killing machine, ready to give up on everyone who gets near.

The owners of the sick dog busy with their own problems and do not come to the aid of your pet. Chain of coincidences leads the main character Donna with his son right in the clutches of the monster. That is, the wages of sin or an unfortunate coincidence? In the battle with the mad dog Donna will have to rely only on himself to save his son and get out alive from this alteration.

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8. Radiance

Loneliness itself can be devastating.

Huge respectable hotel closes for the winter. Jack Torrance, a former alcoholic, English teacher and aspiring writer, agrees to become a winter caretaker. Together with his wife and year old son, he will hold in the hotel a few months. Excellent opportunity to work on a play, and enhance relations shaken after outbreaks of uncontrollable rage Jack. So says Torrens, until faced with a bunch of evil ghosts, taken a liking to the hotel.

Tony, a small secret friend Danny Torrance, the kid warned of the dire consequences of the family residence in the "Overlook". But who listens to the five-year children? Only the chef Dick Halloran, which now depends on the fate of not only the family, but also the hotel with a difficult past.

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9. Misery

Somebody might come and save with horror, but no one came... because no one ever comes.

Successful writer Paul Sheldon after a car accident falls into the "love" of his hand fan. Going on a trip, Paul had completely forgotten to warn anyone, where and what goes. The result of such carelessness sad: Paul realizes that it will not seek soon.

Shortly before the writer realizes that he is dealing with a crazy woman. Lady weirdo ready for Any idol before his death, as long as he continued to create. The inhumane conditions, struggling with excruciating pain and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Paul Sheldon wrote one of his best works about the life of Misery Chastain. The main intrigue of the novel - Will the protagonist to escape from the clutches of admirers of his talent alive and unharmed.

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10. The Langoliers

Sometimes you do not notice things, because they are too small, and sometimes you can not see them because they are too big, too conspicuous.

What if the reality ends up literally in five minutes? It is in such a situation were the heroes of this story.

Normal flight for several passengers suddenly waking turns into a nightmare. Where they fly, where everyone else that binds those who remained on board, and who controls the plane - there are no answers to these questions. There is only a different reality, in which the fuel does not burn, and the products and things have lost their properties.

It turns out that the group of the plane fell into a terrible and alternative version of the past. The characters have only one attempt to return to the time before Langoliers monsters are not destroyed time and space.

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