[Misfit]

The first Stephen King book I ever read was Salem’s Lot and I think for that reason it will always be one of my favourites. After reading Salem’s Lot I went on a huge buying spree of all his books I could find, and read most of his stuff over the following years. I'm not such a Stephen King fan anymore though, I think his work is the kind of horror that you grow out of. There is nothing of his that has made an impact on me in a long time, so maybe he has lost his touch or maybe I’ve just grown up. I still love the books that made an impact on me at the time of reading them, although I doubt very much that if I was to read them now at this age, for the first time, that they would make such an impression on me.
The next one to really captivate me was IT, I don’t know now exactly what hooked me so much but I couldn’t put this one down. (The film was utter shite!!!) Next to get me was The Stand, fantastic book! Nothing else pops to mind at the moment but I’m sure there are a few others that I enjoyed over the years. Saying that too, there was a good few I remember struggling to get through because they were incredibly spiritless! But once I start a book I have to finish it! Some of his short stories are class too, my favourites being Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body and there is one that I can’t think of the name of, I think it was in The Skeleton Crew collection, it’s the diary entries of a doctor who’s ship gets sunk, and he ends up alone on a desert island trying to survive. Also loved The Talisman which King wrote with Peter Straub. The Green Mile was a class story too, really moving!