I still remember reading my first Stephen King novel Christine. It started an addiction that has lasted for the past 15 years. What was your first King story?
What was your first?
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Mine was Salem's Lot.
Mine was Salem's Lot.
Salem's Lot for me too, about '81.
holy cow, I guess great minds think alike, put me down as number 3 for Salem's Lot..think I went backwards then to read Carrie, but then read The Stand and I was hooked for good..
I read 11/22/63. I really liked how SK creates great characters and a sense of place. I plan on reading his new works as they come out.
I don't seem to be very original but it was Salems Lot for me too. Somewhere in the late 70-ties. I might have been 14 yers old. when i was reading it in a translated edition.
It in paperback on the advice of my bro and that was sometime mid- to late-90s. I was a late-bloomer. Welcome aboard, BenVoc...cute girls...your wife and you are blessed.
...The Stand...edited version...
I read Carrie when it first came out as a paperback. Been hooked ever since.
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It was Carrie. I was 8. Fright of my life
'Salem's Lot, paperback version my sister picked up at an airport book store; it had a black cover with embossed face, bright red drop of blood. I've been hooked ever since.
The Shining was my first, I checked it out during my sophomore year of high school...and I kept it, still have it on my shelf today with all my other S.K. books lol! Our librarian was super cool about it too, I think she asked me to pay 1.25$ for it!
Pet Sematary, Was given to my by my Uncles Girlfriend at the time, I had to be like 10 maybe. Been reading ever since. Until I was handed that book I was reading anything I could get at my schools book fairs, I remember getting Scary stories to tell in the dark and More Scary stories to tell in the dark at the book fair and reading them over and over. I loved the stories in those and the pictures were great.
Ohh and I still have that paperback copy of Pet Sematary that she gave me and I cherish it to this day. I have Signed copies of SK books and limited editions, but that one well worn paperback is one of the most special in my collection. Always will be.
Ohh and I still have that paperback copy of Pet Sematary that she gave me and I cherish it to this day. I have Signed copies of SK books and limited editions, but that one well worn paperback is one of the most special in my collection. Always will be.
Misery was my first, but Christine made me a fan.
It was 1978. Miss Cantwell became our English teacher that year. She was one of those teachers( she would have been 40 in 1978) who liked their writers preferably male, English, and dead before 1850. We had our first library sitting where you had to bring a book or borrow one from the school library. I brought Salem's Lot. She'd make us line up outside the library and as we each walk in, she'd inspect our book. As I showed her Salem's Lot, she sniffed and said, 'Oh, him.'
IT. Best book I've ever read. I like big, epic books.