I know the question has been asked before about what your first Stephen King book was, but WHY did you read it? For me it was Pet Sematary. I was staying at my step-grandparents one weekend and found it on the bookshelf. I think he was a member of a book of the month club and just randomly received it. All of the other books on the shelves were Westerns, so this one stuck out to me. I read most of it that weekend and got to take it home to finish up. I was hooked after that and went to the library to start from the beginning of Kings works. I was 12 (1983) when I read that. Three years later they gave me It for Christmas because they knew how much I loved reading his books. I still have, and am currently reading, that first edition of It again. The dust cover is long gone and the book has some tatters, but at least I still have it. Last year I was invited to their house for Thanksgiving. Just about everything about the house was the same as I remembered it from so long ago. Same layout of furniture. Almost the same furniture in fact. Theres still the same corner bookshelf behind a chair with most of the same books. Including the very copy of Pet Sematary I read for the first time.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 06:37:20 +0000
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