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[tracie]

hello everybody heres a question'' was your first stephen book bought by you or given to you as a present? if you bought it yourself which book was it and why:smile2:

[Cowboy]

Bought it myself.

[tillyn]

I have thought back to this question and rightfully cannot remember, I was 17 and remember reading the Talisman it took 1.5 days, i didn't stop, I remember thinking wow, does this guy every know how to write. (the rest is history! I haven't stopped since.) i don't even remember what i did with the book, it was 31 years ago this year. I have to go back and reread it because i haven't read it since.

[racheypen80]

Neither. I snuck it out of my older sister's room. It was a copy of the Shining and I was eight or nine. I kept it under my pillow to keep from getting into trouble. I've never been given a King book- I've bought all mine.

[Ubasti]

A copy of 'Salem's Lot that I checked out of the library ... I think. I might have snuk it from somebody. The first one that somebody bought for me was It while we were on vacation ... somewhere.

[smjohn]

My mom let me borrow Different Season's one night when I was 13. I have been hooked since & read every other book she had. Now I have them all:)

[IfSoGirl]

i cant remember if my first was bag of bones or the stand, but either way it was given to me by a friend in highschool and i had to read it.

[Sundrop]

My first Stephen King book was Skeleton Crew. I bought it for myself when I was 13 with money I earned babysitting. :)

[crazycrashink]

The first I heard of Stephen King was when my dad read me an excerpt from Christine, and I read that from his collection, then I borrowed Insomnia from a friend!

[tigerlilly2k]

A copy of 'Salem's Lot that I checked out of the library ... I think. I might have snuk it from somebody. The first one that somebody bought for me was It while we were on vacation ... somewhere.

I think SALEMS LOT was my first, too...or it may have been CARRIE. So long ago! SK and I are about the same age, so I feel as if we "grew up together", in a way. As he was writing 'em...I was reading 'em!

[Srbo]

The Stand.

I got it under bizzare and horrible circumstances...which I wouldn`t want to repeat right now...

[Speedy2]

Neither. I snuck it out of my older sister's room. It was a copy of the Shining and I was eight or nine. I kept it under my pillow to keep from getting into trouble. I've never been given a King book- I've bought all mine.

Racheypen80, I did the exact same thing but the one that I read, or at least I think, was Carrie. After that I was hooked and the larger a SK book the better. Although I better get to stepping because I am at least one book behind. JAS is still not completely read.

Big sisters should really learn to either lock their bedroom doors or just stop complaining when the little sister borrows their books or their clothes for that matter. IMO.
:grinning:

[smooth operator]

I read Carrie when it was first published. I don't remember how I got it (that was 35 years ago.) At that time, I was reading almost all the time. I may have seen it at the library and decided to give it a go. At that age, I was very interested in kinetic energy, esp, ghosts, and all things paranormal.
I do remember that it only took that one book to make me a SK fan for life.

[mojomofo]

My mom had a copy of The Stand on her bookshelf, and I was always fascinated by the cover. One long summer I took it down and started reading, and have been a CR ever since.

[blunthead]

I bought a used copy of The Shining. I'd read a book by novelist and screenwriter William Goldman, in which Goldman went on and on about the novel Misery. I've always loved Goldman (Magic, Marathon Man, The Princess Bride) and trusted whomever he would recommend. Plus I needed something I figured sK might be able to provide.

I chose The Shining because I'd always wondered what the movie was trying to say. After that, I read Misery, because I liked the movie so much.

[DarkWriter]

Too many years have passed under this bridge for me to remember how I came upon the book...But I do recall it was Salems Lot.





If you hear swearing coming from the chimney...it may not be Santa

[Stacey B]

My friend lent me her copy of Carrie when I was about 14 or 15 and I still have that same copy. I never gave it back!

[phidgt]

My first Stephen King book was "It". Your question has me stumped at the moment. I know my mother told me about it, but I can't remember if she gave me a copy or if I went out and bought it. I am leaning towards her giving me a copy, since I was about 12 years old at the time.

[LOTUS]

I think Carrie was the first one - I found it on my parent's bookshelf.My mother had 3 or 4 SK books - she does not like his style.
But anyway,that was enough for me - since then I am a die hard fan.And proud to be.

[Jax]

My first King was The Dead Zone and my grandma bought it for me.

[Draga]

Good question, the first book I read was Needful Things, and I borrowed it from a friend. BUT the first book I owned was DT II, I liked Needful Things so I said, I'm gonna try with another book by the same author, so I got that old battered copy of DT II, but at that time I didn't know that it was a part of a serie of books, so I read it and didn't understand it. I gave it away. Then I kept on reading books from libraries till I bought Everything's Eventual.

[finalfantasyVII]

My 1st book ever was The Storm of the Century, even though it took a long time for a best friend to talk me into SK..that got me hooked for good!!! Prior to that was all of Tolkien's work...Good reading..Mark FFVII:smile2::blush:

[Theregulator]

Carrie. Someone had left it in a holiday home and I couldn't put it down. I think I was about 13 and I ripped the cover off so my mum wouldn't see it was horror and take it off me.:wink2:

[elevelyn]

Dreamcatcher, i bought it because a friend told me he was great and never looked back, i was 17 and it was the first book of many that i cried reading
[Double Post]

Dreamcatcher, i bought it because a friend told me he was great and never looked back, i was 17 and it was the first book of many that i cried reading

^^^ i was only 15 not 17, apologies

[cunninghamair]

My earliest recollection was the movie, IT, in college and I just found the paperback. However, I would have sworn it was Pet Sematary--but that must have been later. I bought them both.

[Haunted]

My sister was passing through some airport and saw the cover of Salem's Lot on a paperback (you know how awesome some paperback covers can be). She snatched it right up on her way to somewhere and when she finished reading it passed it on to me. That made me a die-hard fan but I don't think she has read a King book since.

WHAT???? Yah, you're right she is a strange, strange lady.:eek2:

[Susanne]

I bought Pet Sematary because I heard about the movie and since I was 11 years old I wasn´t allowed to watch the movie, so I bought the book. :D
I begged my mom to buy me Nightmares and Dreamscapes for my birthday a few weeks later.

[saradobie]

THE STAND. given to me by my uncle when i was in high school. i put it down about a dozen times. took ten years to finish :)

[DelvianBlue]

Mine was It. My dad bought it for me when I was 8 or so because I was really into horror novels even at that age. As you might imagine, my mother was furious. But she let me keep the book. I was able to read the first chapter and after that I got completely lost trying to figure out flashbacks and time shifts. I had to wait until I was a few years older to understand what was going on.

[pandora]

My sister Autumnlyn, got me into reading. At first she gave me an easy appetizer.
Watchers. Good story, loved it. When I told her that I had finished it, she gave me the main course.........The Stand.

[Prince of Darkness]

Hi,

I picked up my mother's copy of The Tommyknockers (very enthusiastic to take the longest novel she had) and tried reading it.

Bool! Didn't work for me.

Then I picked up my mother's copy of Misery and I was hooked.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Presque Vu]

My first book was "The Shining", and a friend of a friend gave it to me, something like that (can't really remember)... it was also the first book I've read in English!!! I've loved this language since I was 6 and tried to write a fan letter to Patrick Swayze (yes, Dirty Dancing and Ghost had a major influence on me lol), but I owe it to Stephen King for making me love it so much that I decided to study it^^

[Sawney Beane]

I use to steal books when I was a kid,they were too expensive.The very first S.k I could call mine was The Shining,and it was stolen,and it was great.

[scared1]

I think my first book was the Dead zone and it was the condensed version in a readers digest magazine. It was on after that. :love:

[kingfanalaska09]

A friend of a babysitters told me at the store one time "Your going to get nightmares," But my first King book was The Green Mile and read Nightmares & Dreamscapes

[Natjen26]

It and it came from the library.. Since then totally hooked. :smile2:

[Autumnlyn]

My first Stephen King book was The Stand. I was really young and saw it at my Mom's friend's house and swiped it! I thought the cover art was so cool, the white and the dark guy fighting with scythes. Anyhow the parents just laughed, drinking their cocktails (it was the 70's) and thought I was trying to act "grown up" getting a book that big. They gave it to me not knowing I was serious! A reader thru and thru; I tackled that book like a one legged man at an @ss kicking contest. It took a long time and was best journey I had ever been on, then or since. There is nothing like your first taste of King. ;)

[psj77]

I was always curious about Mr. King's books, but I figured they would scare the crap out of me. Then about ten years ago I saw a camercial for the Stephen King Library advertising Bag Of Bones as Something different from The Master Of Horror. I saw my chance & took it. A month later BOB was in my hands & thank god it was not that different.:wink2:

[RandomMan]

I've told this before.....Me and a buddy were turning in a copy of the Hardy Boys to the local library. It was after hours on the week-end...we were on our bikes. As he opened the lid on the deposit box. We noticed a book lodged that did not make it through the shoot. We managed to get it out...there before my eyes was a hardback of SK's The Dark Half. It was the coolest cover on a book that I have ever seen. I was so excited...hell, I didnt even know who SK was at that time. Just knew that I had found one cool-ass book. Of course I took it!!! We rode our bikes like we stole something, which we had. hahaha I took it home and fell in love with Stephen King. After that I bought them or received them as gifts. I still have that copy in my collection. The library police have still not caught me!!!!!!!

[JRLauer]

I bought it for myself, it was the uncut version of The Stand. After I read that, I started buying a copy of every book Sai King ever wrote.

[benbennett]

Borrowed my sister-in laws copy of Carrie when first published.

[Wendy Capps]

I got Carrie from the local library when I was a teenager, after seeing the movie. Then my brother gave me The Stand to read. I have been addicted every since. Long live the King!!!:love::smile2::smile2:

[Drummerboy]

Hi everyone,
If I remember correctly, my first SK book was the 'Author's preferred edition' of The Stand! It was being advertised late at night on t.v. "Join the SK Book Club and we'll send you the Author's preferred edition of The Stand"..etc..etc..." Once I got that, every month a new SK book followed. I got many of his books, and to be honest..can't remember why I stopped getting them. Anyway, I just want to say, you never forget your first and so 'The Stand' is probably my all-time favorite. Unfortunately, having seen a few SK movies before reading the book has made me not really want to read the book(Christine, The Shining, Cujo, to name a few). So, I have these books and am not eager to read them. As well, knowing what happens in a few scenes from a movie has also deterred me from reading the book(Misery). I almost feel like I know what's going to happen so, don't want to read the book, which is a shame. I think I'd like to get all of the books, just not sure if I'll read them all.
Anyway..thanks for letting me rant. Take care, and happy horrors!! :)
Kennan

[bookworm101]

Carrie. Been hooked since the 70's, and I'm all caught up have been since the 70's. Waiting patiently on Under the Dome....... arms crossed and tapping foot.:eyebrow: