First Stephen king book

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kevin_1990

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Carrie, age 8. I had borrowed it from my mum's bedroom. The cover really intrigued me, there was this girl looking scared and the title was "Carrie" which isn't a name in France, it just means tooth cavity :confused:. I just had to find out what that story was about and boy, I wasn't disappointed.I didn't even know what periods were then! Also, I interpreted the different scientific excerpts on telekinesis and newspapers cuttings to mean that I was reading a true story :wow: So the book was scary on many levels but it didn't deter me one bit :)

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You must have been some reader reading that at 8 years old i'm 26 and just started reading it i was thinking though if i read this when i was younger i wouldn't have fully understood what happend in the shower room i would have really thought she was bleeding to death.
 

Maddie

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My first book from Stephen king was rose madder. It was on 2008 i think. It had me from the begging. The drop of blood on the sheets made her decide to leave her home. And get me hooked on the book.

What was your first book?


Rose Madder is my favorite story of Stephen still to this day! but it wasn't my first, it was the first one I read the fastest. My first one was the cover of a hardcover book, that I saw being newly displayed at a drug store, and there was something about the cover, and it seemed like it was just calling out to me, I wasn't an avid reader of anyone, and only knew Stephen from movies, but that beautiful book.... reached out and called me, to it ... it was this one....
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Toni_S_UK

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My first was Pet Semetery - not sure how old I was.

I remember always being drawn to strange stories though; I remember being 6-7 and reading a school reading book about some astronauts who discovered an abandoned ship and ended up being killed by aliens! (this was a school book?!) Anyway I loved it and read it lots of times.
 

hliasdio

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Cujo, age 10. Completely lost in the book until I finished it in one sitting. I was so horrified and troubled by the book that I went back to our town library and checked out The Shining the next day...:)
Cujo and then the shining really gets you hooked. Finished cujo couple days ago. Could not put it down.
 

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The Shining when I was 15, around '95 or so. I had seen quite a few of the films prior to that (including The Shining) but not read any of King's books. I can't even remember what the second one was, I want to say one of the short story collections or maybe The Stand.
 

Joanie Kay

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Salem's Lot, age 19 in 1980. I was staying with my sister and her two preschoolers, and she was reading it. In the middle of the night, she got up and rummaged through her jewelry box, got out two crosses on chains, and hung them on the kids' bedposts. I laughed at her, of course, but then I had to read the book to see what had scared her so badly. And of course, I couldn't sleep with the curtains open for the next six months.
 

Doc Creed

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Salem's Lot, age 19 in 1980. I was staying with my sister and her two preschoolers, and she was reading it. In the middle of the night, she got up and rummaged through her jewelry box, got out two crosses on chains, and hung them on the kids' bedposts. I laughed at her, of course, but then I had to read the book to see what had scared her so badly. And of course, I couldn't sleep with the curtains open for the next six months.
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So you borrowed her copy? My boss told me that she read it when it came out and would sprint to her car every night going to work. She said she was truly terrified.
 

Gav.80

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My first was Different seasons when I was 14. Rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption is still my favourite sk story and led me to all the rest. Now I've read almost everything. terrifying, heartbreaking, fantastical, beautiful, epic stories. And sk's introductions and forewards are better than great.
 

GNTLGNT

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My first was Different seasons when I was 14. Rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption is still my favourite sk story and led me to all the rest. Now I've read almost everything. terrifying, heartbreaking, fantastical, beautiful, epic stories. And sk's introductions and forewards are better than great.
....Hey Gav.....welcome to the altar of King worship......