Ian Gubeli 125K subscribers · Nov 8, 2025

The ULTIMATE Stephen King Beginner's Guide

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This is a book that took me a few attempts to read and get through, but once I got to the end, oh my gosh, it's a book about grief and finding love and finding family, unresolved trauma and justice for the dead. And it's so much that's wrapped like this is kind of a literary turning point for Stephen King.

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I already kind of told you about it earlier, but and though it was written in 2013, almost 40 years after The Shining, this book still holds up as a marvelous sequel. Honestly, I would recommend reading this backto back with The Shining.

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I don't know how he did it, but I've never read a first person book quite like this because Dolores feels completely all her own. It's so wildly unique and it's one of his horror novels that's not supernatural. It's just raw and real and it's just so bloody good everybody needs to read it.

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I went into it thinking it would be just a straight horror novel, and it ended up being one of the most beautiful books I've ever read, and it's one of my all-time favorite Stephen King novels.

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I don't know how Stephen King can take a topic like how to write something we all learned in English class and make it so entertaining and engaging. It's as if you and Stephen King are sitting down kicking back some beverages on a back porch and he's just talking to you, telling you stories. It is so good.

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To this day, I still think it's the scariest horror novel that I've ever read. This is one of the few Stephen King books that's actually gotten its way under my skin and made me feel things that I just don't ever want to feel again. This book is creepy to the max.