I read the book Misery before I saw the movie, and I've got to tell you that the book was so much better than the movie that I was sorely disappointed. I the book, she cut his foot off with an electric kitchen knife and cauterized it with a torch. In the movie, she hit his foot with a hammer.
Now come on, that just isn't even close. The evil of the "number one fan" was so real in the book, and almost laughable in the movie, But OHHH that book, I couldn't put it down! youtube.com/watch?v=Zaj2wzNRO38&feature=....
My favorite is probably the unabridged version of The Stand.
At risk of parroting the my favorite King novel is also the uncut version of the stand. Its brilliant, vast, and, with one or two flaws excepted, absolutely perfect. That said, because you've already gotten that as an answer/recommendation, I'll give you my second favorite King novel ever, one which is far less well known.
Its called the Long Walk. King, as you may or may not know, wrote a few books under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman. The long walk was one of the books written under that Pseudonym and its my second favorite novel by king.
I don't want to ruin it by telling you the specifics of the plot, because the novel lets you figure them out as you go, but I'll say this. Unusually for a king novel, its short. The plot doesn't stray, and the climax is fitting and exactly what was required, a rarity in a king book Runner up is Christine.
If you haven't read it, you need to.
I read the book Rose madder when I was sixteen and fell utterly in love with it. It has so much raw emotion in it and the story itself, like all King novels, is highly imaginative and creative. I'd have to say my close second would be Desperation.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.