Well, I'm sure these things all start the same way, so, you won't be surprised when I say hello, I'm new to the boards but a long time Stephen King reader.
I discovered King as a preteen but didn't read him until I was well into my teens. I tried to read Pet Sematary when I was 13 years old, then began really reading whatever King I could get my hands on at about 18, in whatever order I found it, until about 2004 or possibly 2005 when I read the ending to The Dark Tower and got annoyed enough about it that I put King on the back burner for a while. There were many novels I never got to, and I had read only a few of his short stories, mostly the ones in Night Shift.
In the last few months for whatever reason, King got back on my mind. It might be that Hollywood actually seems to want to make newer versions of The Stand and It, hopefully good ones, and that a movie version of The Dark Tower might actually happen. But regardless, I went looking online for some King resources, almost immediately finding thetruthinsidethelie.blogspot.com and talkstephenking.blogspot.com and only commented a couple of times before getting drawn into a casting debate.
I love, I mean LOVE, casting stuff that I've read, and combining that with how unsatisfactory about 80% of the existing King adaptations have been, I suggested that maybe I should start a Stephen King casting blog. When interest was shown in reading it, I thought, hey, why not?
So I decided the best way to do it was to read or re-read every piece of available King material there was: novel, novella, short story, e-book, whatever. I still had a lot of his books from before when I was reading them, and I went out and bought a majority of the rest. As funds allow I will be getting the remaining five books I don't own in short order.
I am literally reading them in original publication order, short stories included. It's a challenge, but I'm really enjoying it. As it's a relatively recent thing, I have managed to get about 560 pages into The Stand (I'm reading from the June 2011 Anchor Books mass market paperback edition) thus far, and I am relishing this opportunity to read all this.
Other irrelevant details: I am male, in my late 30's, married and a father to a 19-year-old, a 14-year-old and a one-year old. As a wannabe writer I have written two as-yet-unpublished novels, one horror, one fantasy, and write short horror stories that have something of an online following.
I'm glad to be here on stephenking.com!
I discovered King as a preteen but didn't read him until I was well into my teens. I tried to read Pet Sematary when I was 13 years old, then began really reading whatever King I could get my hands on at about 18, in whatever order I found it, until about 2004 or possibly 2005 when I read the ending to The Dark Tower and got annoyed enough about it that I put King on the back burner for a while. There were many novels I never got to, and I had read only a few of his short stories, mostly the ones in Night Shift.
In the last few months for whatever reason, King got back on my mind. It might be that Hollywood actually seems to want to make newer versions of The Stand and It, hopefully good ones, and that a movie version of The Dark Tower might actually happen. But regardless, I went looking online for some King resources, almost immediately finding thetruthinsidethelie.blogspot.com and talkstephenking.blogspot.com and only commented a couple of times before getting drawn into a casting debate.
I love, I mean LOVE, casting stuff that I've read, and combining that with how unsatisfactory about 80% of the existing King adaptations have been, I suggested that maybe I should start a Stephen King casting blog. When interest was shown in reading it, I thought, hey, why not?
So I decided the best way to do it was to read or re-read every piece of available King material there was: novel, novella, short story, e-book, whatever. I still had a lot of his books from before when I was reading them, and I went out and bought a majority of the rest. As funds allow I will be getting the remaining five books I don't own in short order.
I am literally reading them in original publication order, short stories included. It's a challenge, but I'm really enjoying it. As it's a relatively recent thing, I have managed to get about 560 pages into The Stand (I'm reading from the June 2011 Anchor Books mass market paperback edition) thus far, and I am relishing this opportunity to read all this.
Other irrelevant details: I am male, in my late 30's, married and a father to a 19-year-old, a 14-year-old and a one-year old. As a wannabe writer I have written two as-yet-unpublished novels, one horror, one fantasy, and write short horror stories that have something of an online following.
I'm glad to be here on stephenking.com!
Keep posting!