I'm personally a HUGE Dean Koontz fan, but I hate most of Stephen King's work. Who do you prefer?
Dean Koontz or Stephen King?
03/13/2011
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Koontz is my favorite, but I like King for variety
03/13/2011
Clive Barker.
03/13/2011
Both are great. I think I lean a bit more towards King though.
03/13/2011
I like Stephen King better, but maybe I should try some more Koontz novels to make it fair
03/13/2011
I'm a king fan through and through, but Koontz' False Memory was pretty awesome.
03/13/2011
Definitely King, not even a contest!
03/13/2011
I like King better, but I do enjoy some of Koontz. One of my favourite Koontz books is "Intensity"
03/13/2011
I like them both about equally. King, I think, has written more stories that scared me, but I haven't cared for much of his later works past the Tommyknockers, with one or two exceptions. Koontz has some real gems (Twilight Eyes and Night Chills are probably my favorites), but what I really love about him is that he's so fast and readable.
03/13/2011
You have started an argument now. My husband says King. I say Koontz. I am more into real horror (scare-the-begeezus-ou t-of-me, sleep with the lights on, fuck with your head, type horror). My husband likes the thriller type horror. The debate is on!
03/13/2011
I have only really been scared reading Stephen Kings stuff when I read pet semetary, but I like his stuff.
03/13/2011
Stephen King is the best! I have every book he has ever written. I wonder how he comes up with some of his stories, they are so original and the characters are so endearing. BTW, he's coming out with a new book this fall called 11/22/63. I can't wait!!!
03/13/2011
Stephen King allll the way! love his stuff
03/13/2011
I love Dean Koontz' ability to get you to get up and check to make sure all of your windows and doors are locked.
03/14/2011
King. Some of his books are on my all-time favorites list.
03/14/2011
King's last name says it all.
03/14/2011
I LOVE< LOVE them both and they are my favorite authors of all time but between the tqo I would have to pick Dean Koontz.
03/15/2011
Why choose when you can have both?
03/15/2011
Koontz
King skeeves me out. Anybody ever read a little story called the Library Policeman? Last King story I ever read.
Christopher Pike is in the same genre, though usually teen crap. Season of Passage has to be one of my all time faves though.
King skeeves me out. Anybody ever read a little story called the Library Policeman? Last King story I ever read.
Christopher Pike is in the same genre, though usually teen crap. Season of Passage has to be one of my all time faves though.
03/15/2011
I like both, but I tend to read Koontz more.
03/15/2011
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Stephen King!!
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Kaltir
I'm personally a HUGE Dean Koontz fan, but I hate most of Stephen King's work. Who do you prefer?
03/15/2011
Stephen King--I read Graveyard shift every October. Pet Cemetery scares that crap out of me still.
03/15/2011
I haven't read either author lately, but I've read of few books written by each of them (though it has been years and YEARS).
Stephen King offers a much greater variety than any other author I know. Plus, he is an EXTREMELY gifted writer -- more gifted than a great number of other authors who I deem to be excellent. Love him or hate him, I think Stephen King is an unmatched enigma and cannot really be compared to anyone else. There was one book of his that I just could not bring myself to finish and even found myself disposing of because I was so unnerved by--ahem--It that I did not even want the harmless written text under the same roof as me. I absolutely LOVED The Green Mile though and enjoyed many of King's other books, too.
That said, I have also enjoyed a few of Dean Koontz's books, particularly Intensity. He is a very gifted story-teller and continuously kept me on edge and unable to step away from his story, from beginning to end.
Stephen King offers a much greater variety than any other author I know. Plus, he is an EXTREMELY gifted writer -- more gifted than a great number of other authors who I deem to be excellent. Love him or hate him, I think Stephen King is an unmatched enigma and cannot really be compared to anyone else. There was one book of his that I just could not bring myself to finish and even found myself disposing of because I was so unnerved by--ahem--It that I did not even want the harmless written text under the same roof as me. I absolutely LOVED The Green Mile though and enjoyed many of King's other books, too.
That said, I have also enjoyed a few of Dean Koontz's books, particularly Intensity. He is a very gifted story-teller and continuously kept me on edge and unable to step away from his story, from beginning to end.
03/15/2011
BOTH!!!!!
I love how Stephen King describes things and the way he takes you into a totally different world and he is wordy and wordy and wordy. I love his thicker books and for me... the first 106 pages are torture to get through. It literally take me weeks to get past those pages, but an afternoon to devour the rest of the book.
I like Dean Koontz's books as well for I find them very similar to King's short stories. Beyond brilliance.
I only hope one day I might be able to write a fraction as good as either of them.
I love how Stephen King describes things and the way he takes you into a totally different world and he is wordy and wordy and wordy. I love his thicker books and for me... the first 106 pages are torture to get through. It literally take me weeks to get past those pages, but an afternoon to devour the rest of the book.
I like Dean Koontz's books as well for I find them very similar to King's short stories. Beyond brilliance.
I only hope one day I might be able to write a fraction as good as either of them.
03/17/2011
KING! Absolutely.
I have most of his books in first editions. Not that they are worth much, as he has sold so many. But, some of the older ones (one of which, Firestarter was borrowed by a friend and "lost" by one of his parents. Dude, it was a First Edition!
I couldn't get through Under The Dome (is that the name of it?) It really started dragging, too many characters and I put it down and haven't picked it up again.
I have most of his books in first editions. Not that they are worth much, as he has sold so many. But, some of the older ones (one of which, Firestarter was borrowed by a friend and "lost" by one of his parents. Dude, it was a First Edition!
I couldn't get through Under The Dome (is that the name of it?) It really started dragging, too many characters and I put it down and haven't picked it up again.
03/18/2011
King fan since early 1980's
03/19/2011
I much prefer Stephen king.
04/05/2011
I love both of them and I even love the books by Stephen King's son, Joe Hill! He's just as good as his dad!
04/05/2011
I used to read both all the time and while I've stopped reading Dean's work altogether, I still read King occasionally. Like Leila, I enjoy Joe Hill's work. I think I'd choose him over his father and Dean. lol
04/05/2011
I love them both. By book shelf is all Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
04/05/2011
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