Is it healthy to only want to read Stephen King?

[blunthead]

...I've come to this conclusion:

now that I have checked out the non kings books that caught my attention I don't know what to read next. I've gone back and started rereading the SK books (Dome, Duma, Dreamcatchers, The Stand so far)

Does this make me weird? is there anyone better?

No, this does not make you weird. You are weird, but not for this reason. I'm very funny. As far as I'm concerned to want to read at all equals healthy, especially when most people don't read, yet are considered healthy by doctors and peers who actually don't know what they're talking about anyway.

And as far as I'm concerned there really is no author better than Stephen King, period. And I don't say that lightly or ignorantly. I can recommend authors I like, but they are mostly from my past as I haven't read many other authors since discovering sK (except, I've read a number he recommended in Danse Macabre, some of whom I list below). Here...

1. William Goldman (not Golding)
2. Arthur Machen
3. Robert Bloch
4. Meg Gardiner
5. HP Lovecraft
6. CS Lewis
7. Dean Koontz
8. Shirley Jackson
9. Michael Connelly (whom I've not read but sK likes a lot)

[Jojo87]

No you definitely not weird. I love King's books too. And read and re-read them all over again.
I have a big list which King books I'm gonna re-read. So keep reading.

[J.T. Adams]

What about the rest of Sai King's books???

Read those.

[ghost19]

Every time I read something non-King, it always comes up short. Reading Mr. King's books is like putting on an old comfortable pair of blue jeans. So I just keep putting them on over and over again. I've read so many of his books multiple times, I've lost count. Only other book I've done that to is Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy...don't know why. Anyway, doesn't make you weird, you have just come to the same conclusion everyone on this board has, that Mr. King's books rock!

[momone53]

I don't only read King, but I find that his are the books I enjoy the most. I make it a habit of reading a King, then someone else then back to King. Of course, being a tower junkie, I also through in a tower book between each; I don't always read the whole tower book sometimes just certian parts. I don't think it makes me weird; crazy maybe. Unless, it's all the other things I do that make me crazy. Makes me wonder sometimes.

And may you have twice the number.

[bryantburnette]

Yes, it makes you weird. Extremely.

[king family fan]

Welcome! I only read King books or King related books. So If you are weird ,I guess alot of us are weird.LOL

[91rewoT]

Well, if it's not healthy, then I am one sick individual...

[Haunted]

To read Mr. King's books again and again fills my need to meet new and wonderful characters, be they good or bad, and at Mr. K's invitation to set off on an adventure in my new friends' company.

There is nothing wrong or weird or whatever in enjoying a wonderfully told story.

Consider yourself in the very best of company!

[samhain]

I prefer SK's novels over everything else I read, but I still enjoy other books and authors.
Since I'm currently on a King-reading binge, I've been holding off on 3 new releases from other authors I recently purchased.