I'm sorry my intro sounded kinda...grumpy.
A little more info. I started reading Stephen King when I was 12. I'm pretty sure the first book of his I read was Firestarter. My mother was a big fan her whole life and had collected all of his books up to that point. I was always an avid reader and fell in love immediately. I've since read everything I can find by him, and other than unpublished works, I've somehow managed to read just about everything there is.
The day DT7 came out, I read the whole thing from beginning to end, non-stop, in one day.
I always buy his new books the day they are released to the public. Even through some very rough times, if I knew he had a new book coming out I would save the funds to be able to do so. I've foregone even meals in order to do so.
So yeah, that's where I'm coming from.