Why do you read SK?

[raspberry2012]

I read SK simply because when I buy a horror book, I want to be scared. And SK scares me! I was reading "Gray Matter" once while I was waiting for my mom to get off from work (I was in college at the time). And just about the time when Richie Grenadine goes full on "gray", shall we say, my stepdad came up behind me to tell me my mom was almost done, and I jumped about a foot in the air. And it was only 3 PM in the afternoon! Not a lot of horror authors can scare you that badly in the middle of broad daylight in a waiting room full of people. Mr. King is the goods!

 

[notebookgirl]

I was just always amazed how many interesting worlds he can create in one book. There's rarely a single person taking the spotlight. It's multiple things or people engaging you and then they all seem to come together in the end.

 

[VultureLvr45]

Reading his books helps me think of new ways to kill people

and

 

[Flat Matt]

I read King because he's the best at what he does.

He makes the impossible seem possible and that's scary.

 

[Neesy]

i had his love child and it's an obligation in our negotiated contract.

How F'ed up is that?? The ego on that guy.

LOL - does it take after Mom or Dad?

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Because he writes good stories, really really good stories, the kind that you can put in those little small bags that are really small and take with you, like brown bag stories, the kind you can get drunk on...plus

Spoiler

his stories have all the answers to the Easter Island monoliths, reading between the lines...if you catch the ole driftola.

 

[VampireLily]

LOL - does it take after Mom or Dad?

a little bit of both.... and so recklessly birthed onto an unprepared and unassuming public.

 

[AchtungBaby]

His "voice" is comforting to me.

 

[Sarah love]

Well x 3

Longtime reader, first time post- er.

I'd call myself closer to a constant reader, even though I usually wait a year or two before reading all of the recently released SK books in a single weekend. Then I do it again.

For every ounce of unconscionable evil we see in the pages of SK, we glance across the cosmic scale to see a hero or force rising up to balance it. That is why I continue to read.

To escape into his amazing parallel universe and forget myself for awhile...

 

[RandallFlagg19]

I like to read Stephen King because, I like how Stephen King Stories expose everything sinister behind the veil of normality.

Welcome! to Derry, just a normal small town in Maine: unless you have found the truth in IT.

Welcome to Chester’s Mill! Stay as long as you’d like, leave when you want to.

Time for a family vacation! Stay at the Overlook, nope, nothing wrong here.

 

[Lets Rock]

I like to read Stephen King because, I like how Stephen King Stories expose everything sinister behind the veil of normality.

Welcome! to Derry, just a normal small town in Maine: unless you have found the truth in IT.

Welcome to Chester’s Mill! Stay as long as you’d like, leave when you want to.

Time for a family vacation! Stay at the Overlook, nope, nothing wrong here.

Likin it twice...

 

[Blake]

He speaks the same language as I do.

 

[mustangclaire]

He always surprises me. But is familiar at the same time. No other author makes me count down the days until a new book is out. Or makes me scared. Or writes about childhood in such an outstandingly touching way.

 

[mal]

His character development. That's what makes everything work.

 

[Neesy]

Well x 3

Longtime reader, first time post- er.

I'd call myself closer to a constant reader, even though I usually wait a year or two before reading all of the recently released SK books in a single weekend. Then I do it again.

For every ounce of unconscionable evil we see in the pages of SK, we glance across the cosmic scale to see a hero or force rising up to balance it. That is why I continue to read.

To answer your question "Why do you read SK?"

- for the pure enjoyment of it

 

[prufrock21]

Four words: unadulterated, unapologetic, grossed-out, and creepy

 

[SpazzTheBassPlayer]

I read SK because of several reasons, but the primary reason is that his books read like a movie in my head -- as compared to many authors, there is a great amount of detail in my mind's eye by his writing style and I like that

 

[Blake]

I got 'hooked' when I was in my early teens.

 

[Van Blaricum]

When I was a wee little one, I spent my time between a small village, not unlike a Derry or Castle Rock, and a traveling carnival, not unlike a Joyland. Being busy traveling a lot, I always had to find some way to occupy myself. And I had to find accessible things to occupy myself with. SK books are easy to get, my mom used to buy all his novels and short story collections off drugstore paperback shelves and I would take them and read them when I was bored and driving on long circus jumps, because I wanted to be just like her and do the stuff she did.

The characters are comfortable old friends, the foes will always be vanquished, and the terrible truths will be gasped at. Theres amazements in the territories, battles fought in the barrens, the small town horrors of the 'Lot. I pick up an old book, and it's like coming home even though they say you can never come back home. SK, through his work, became my unwitting nanny and my imagination enabler. As they kept coming out, I just kept reading and couldnt ever stop. The books keep a special place in my heart since the early 80's when I would peer down the sewer grate outside my house in fear and amazement.

I Mr. SK!

 

[Cableye]

I find that reading his books is an experience like no other author can give. You dont just read Stephen King's books, you immerse yourself in them! I find myself deep in the story, hearing the character's speak and seeing the action so clearly in my mind!