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November 11, 2003
guilty pleasures
anyone who has visited my abode, knows i'm a reader. i love books, they are stuffed and spilling on and out of every flat surface in my house. now, i can at times be a bit of a book snob. not in the literary, esoteric sense where i disdain pulp fiction and only regard the classics as worth reading. but in the sense that i don't like crap books. no romance novels, no bad fantasy or dime store thrillers. life is too short.
but i do, however have one guilty pleasure...stephen king.
i've been reading his books since i was 10 years old and i totally dig his stories. the detail, the tone, the rock lyrics threaded throughout each chapter head. the fact that the same characters keep turning up, like the walking dude, the low men, the crimson king...and of course, castle rock. now of course i admit some of his books are crap. cujo wasn't the greatest example of his story-telling, but i was 10 when i read it and it scared the bejeezus out of me. carrie, a sufficiently creepy movie but a bit of a waste of time. and tommyknockers, well it just sucked.
but the dark tower series, is my FAVORITE! the first few came out while i was still in high school and i ate them up. then the next few were released through my early twenties and then, with no warning they inexplicably stopped.
i love that these stories germinated when stephen king was in college living in a cabin and writing on mismatched colored paper -- because he was too poor for the good stuff. but the fact that i've had to wait close to FIVE YEARS for the next book...well i was starting to get frustrated.
and hate to admit this...but when he was hit by that van a few years ago? my first thought was, "oh my god! he'll never finish the dark tower series!"
this probably makes me a bad person, but when i walked into the bookstore at lunch today and saw the 800+ page-thick wolves of the calla on the shelf? i did a little dance and knocked over three small children to get to the checkout stand.
*evil cackle*
Posted by heidijanet at November 11, 2003 12:55 PM
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