How's that for a title?
Actually, I'm curious. How many of you remember your first experience with Sai King? What was the book/story, how old were you, why did you get it/who did you get it from, etc.
I'll start it off. I was 12 years old and home with a fever and a bad case of chicken pox. Earlier in the week, I had bought my mom a paperback copy of Pet Sematary, as she often took me to see horror movies and we both loved to read. I was home and bored, so I found my way into her room and took the book off her bookshelf. For the record, she had no idea I was reading it, and I probably shouldn't have. I was done for. I had the book read by the end of the day, and as soon as I was healthy, I went out a picked up a copy of 'Salem's Lot, and I was firmly established as a Constant Reader ever since.
I have to tell you that my first time with Stephen King, was Bag of Bones! What happened was, that I was shopping at a drug store, I was at the checkout counter and I glanced over my shoulder and saw it on a display table, you know the beautiful white and gold hard cover where the woman is screaming with her mouth wide open , and I swear, to this day, that something about that book called out to me, literally, and there was the woman on the cover with her mouth open screaming out, but , I had to have that book! I wasnt even a reader, of anyone! I ran right over and quickly grabbed it to add with my other stuff at checkout and got it home, and immediately started reading it, as a single mom with two young boys I felt close to Matties character, and you know who suddenly seemed like he might actually be Mike Noonan, to me, Stephen! that's when I developed that weird crush I still have on him to this day. 
I went right to the first official Stephen King website cause I saw it listed in the book and , I been here ever since. 
