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good 1st time read for an 11-year old?
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Stephen King wrote "the Eyes of the Dragon" for his then young daughter, Naomi. I read it and I loved it. It would be a perfect choice for an 11 year old. It is just like an old fashioned fairy tale, only better.
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I loved Eye of the Dragon. One of my favorites and very underrated.
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The eyes of the dragon. It was primarily written for his daughter before it was published. I read it . not too bad.
a book NOT to read until you are 17/18 is Truman Capote's in cold blood. It is about a family i think in midwestern US, who are doing normal things on a saturday, two psychopaths come alone and kill them hence the name in cold blood. Reasoning, they thought they could get away with it. The description of the murders is graphic. I was shocked. My mate Paul has a degree in EnglisH( i am just a qualifed dull boring logically? minded would be programmer, I would like to do a degree in English. ) He said and I quote "too young to read it.". Wha? what does that mean? There is a book out Again i was too young to comprehend and I DO NOT recommend it unless you can hold your emotions, it was a photographic history of the concentration camps and some of the pictures, you would not believe. it is called 'The yellow star'
My mother gave me Firestarter to read at 10, I think that one is relatively safe for younger kids, it's one of the less scary stories in his library but still has the King vibe to it. I think that one made a pretty good gateway drug for me to get into King.
I started with 'Salem's Lot when I was about twelve. If you're going to read the world's greatest horror writer you might as well start with the scary crap. Of course a lot of people say my brain is warped so you might not want to listen to me.
I am impressed 12, good book to start with. Define "warped" .
yep Eyes of the Dragon. he wrote it for his own daughter if I'm not mistaken.
like your name and as for your signature, I feel the same way confused all the time.
I can't really define it. People insist that I'm just not right but they won't give me any details.
As many others have stated, Eyes of the Dragon is an appropriate starting point for an 11 year old.
I didn't find Salem's Lot to be scary. In fact in those terms, he's only had one book that made me feel genuine fear, and that was because it brought up a memory that disturbs me.
IDK why I don't scare easily but I usually don't. Unless I go through a haunted house on account of people try to grab me and one person had a chainsaw that sounded pretty real to me and he chased us through a field with it; it didn't sound like the blade was missing as my friend said. So I said "All right then I'll go in front of you and you can be the one bringing up the rear and closest to the chainsaw man," to which she replied "No way!" and kept running.
I don't get scared reading unless there's something exceptional in the content, like there was in the book It.
I get creeped out or disturbed about some things but there's only been one book through which I experienced utter terror the whole time I read it. I have no idea why either, but it was by Frank Peretti, who doesn't always write horror. But this one was about a house some people stay at through the night and have experiences in the basement that filled me with dread horror. I think it was called The House.
The only ones who've ever written books about vampires that actually scared me are Anne Rice and Bram Stoker.
IDK why I don't scare easily but I usually don't. Unless I go through a haunted house on account of people try to grab me and one person had a chainsaw that sounded pretty real to me and he chased us through a field with it; it didn't sound like the blade was missing as my friend said. So I said "All right then I'll go in front of you and you can be the one bringing up the rear and closest to the chainsaw man," to which she replied "No way!" and kept running.
I don't get scared reading unless there's something exceptional in the content, like there was in the book It.
I get creeped out or disturbed about some things but there's only been one book through which I experienced utter terror the whole time I read it. I have no idea why either, but it was by Frank Peretti, who doesn't always write horror. But this one was about a house some people stay at through the night and have experiences in the basement that filled me with dread horror. I think it was called The House.
The only ones who've ever written books about vampires that actually scared me are Anne Rice and Bram Stoker.
First Stephen King book I read at like 12 or 13 was Desperation. I have been hearing swear words since I was 5. So my mom wasn't very concered about what I read, as long as I like to read. 
But I would recommend Carrie possibly or Eyes of the Dragon like everyone else said.
But I would recommend Carrie possibly or Eyes of the Dragon like everyone else said. 
I'm going with the majority, Eyes of the Dragon. Fantastic book at any age, but very appropriate for a 12yo
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I'm pretty sure Dragon is adult-language free, and think Tom Gordon is, too.