What was your first?
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I don't' think I was partial to a particular quote but I thought Lebay was an interesting character, in both the book and the movie I own both. Phrases, sentences which had meaning or amuzed me as a kid
Sorry, ran out of time to edit that last post.
Things which were amusing to me as a kid are different than what peaks my interest today. Anything of a rebellious nature amused me when I was younger. today I look (not intentionally) or absorb things which have meaning to me. To quote Lebay directly I am still a man who is learning to be old. It interests me because I am a woman who is learning to be older. Until I read that sentence I had never myself put it into words, and so for me it would have profound meaning.
Things which were amusing to me as a kid are different than what peaks my interest today. Anything of a rebellious nature amused me when I was younger. today I look (not intentionally) or absorb things which have meaning to me. To quote Lebay directly I am still a man who is learning to be old. It interests me because I am a woman who is learning to be older. Until I read that sentence I had never myself put it into words, and so for me it would have profound meaning.
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I read CARRIE in the 1st UK paperback edition, the day it come out and have been a fan ever since.
I'm glad, comrade. I thought you would have said Chairman Mao's little red book, or the collected wisdom of Lenin. Don't be embarrassed, I had to grow up with Marx, Engels, Stalin and Lenin staring down at me from the wall. I tried to put a poster up on the wall-about 1979-and my father told me I couldn't touch his hangings.
I'm not embarrassed. I am also unsure of whether you are mocking me.
(FYI, I think Stalin and Mao were deranged mass murderers)
I don't mock. My father was in the Australian Communist Party. Back then, to get your Seaman's ticket with the Maritime Union of Australia, you had to be almost in the Australian Communist Party. I know my father has an ASIO file because when he past away a few years ago I rang them up and asked them. I haven't requested to look at it as yet. My father thought Joseph Stalin was a good bloke.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Christine. Saw the movie, then read the book. It's when I read it is when I was hooked.
The book was my first as well. Very disappointed in the movie.
YES!! This is the same one I read. I can never find one with this cover anymore.'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.
This was my first too.
My first Stephen King book was Skeleton Crew, read it about 32 years ago, and have been an avid SK reader ever since.....
My first journey into the SK universe was IT.