First Books

[Tina tcwp]

Salem's Lot was the first book I bought for myself. I went straight from Enid Blyton's Malory Towers to Salem's Lot. I read it to shreds and it led me to a lot of other great novels. Initially, I read a lot of horror because of it, but then hopskotched to crime, mystery, humour, horror, crime, romance! and all around the spectrum. I spent a long time casting about for what I wanted to write myself but, perhaps as with most things, I went back to my first love. This year I wrote my first novel, a horror set mostly in Ireland.

I have read such a tremendous quantity of books, good and bad but I will never forget that it Salem's Lot was the first proper book I bought with my pocket money.

Tina

[scarywriter]

I understand the love of that first SK book. Mine was Different Seasons and I read it so many times, I had to tape the binding together.
congrats on the book.

[fredo]

Sitting here trying to remember the first book I bought with my own money. It was probably a J.D.MacDonald using lawn mowing bucks. Man, that was a long time ago. 'Salem's Lot was the first King novel for me and the cause of my current addiction.

[Matthew.Degnan]

can't remember what the first book i bought wih my own money was

Think it could have bween Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin

[aeroplane]

The first King book I bought with my own money was either Cujo or Pet Sematary, most likely Pet Sematary.

The first book I bought with my own money, period, was "Winning Baseball" by Pete Rose.

[CrazyAbe]

Hi this Abe

Salemìs lot is beatiful story

my first SK book has benn Sometime they come Back
:oo:

[Cowboy]

Night Shift was my first. Had a elementary teacher reading it for us in class and begged my Mom for a copy so I could read all the stories. She was cool with it and I was hooked.

[KazMic]

The first book I bought myself was The Outsider by S.E.Hinton (I think). The first Stephen King book I bought was Cujo. A friend had 'borrowed' her sisters copy and told me it was brilliant. After reading it I became a huge Stephen King fan.

[Scott C]

The first SK book i read was the Tommyknockers...It's still one of my favs...i think no matter which one you read first it's going to end with wanting another!!

[Scott C]

By the way...Congrats on the Book...I like the Ireland connection!!

[FraidyCat]

First book i remember buying with my own money (birthday money!) is a behind-the-scenes book on the making of the Wizard of Oz. I was probably 8 or 9. This book still sits on my night-stand 20 years later!

First SK book...IT. 7th grade. The beginning of my addiction...

[Arnie Cunningham]

this was the first SK novel i bought too and i was hook ever since.

[Micke]

'Salem's Lot is a great book. My first King-book was Pet sematary, one of my favorites along with Misery, my second book, and this one.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Congratulations, Tina!

I initially purchased/read Misery, and have never looked back.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Wow, FraidyCat. You read It in the 7th grade? My addiction did not begin until the 9th.


Welcome to the Board!

[zachjames]

I couldn't tell you what the first book I bought with my own money was. My first Stephen King book was Cell a few years back, I think I was probably in 7th or 8th grade. Second was Blaze :) now I have a shelf full of SK books and a list of even more.

[Teddy Duchamp]

Yep - it was the first SK book I bought (had bought loads of other books of different genres though) - and I think it still holds up in the top ten. :smile2:

[Pucker]

The first book I ever bought with my own money was The Return of the King, and I was frantic waiting for it to come in the mail, as the last thing I had read was that Frodo was alive, but taken by the enemy.

Brrrrrrrrrrr.

:sad:

[goodwitch]

My first SK was Pet Sematary when I was 11 or 12. I still have that very same book and it is well loved(tattered) and retired to the shelf for admiration. I can always read my other copy ; )

[Patch9]

My first book was also Salem's Lot. ... and all around the spectrum... I was.

[Patch9]

Would you like the Argentina connection. It is not good for the vampire/s to have missing links. By the way... there are never missing links.

[Sprite]

I read 'Salems Lot way back in '81 when I was in hospital....can't say I liked it much (vampires just don't interest me), I finally re-read it a few months ago and still wasn't all that fussed on it, probly my least fav book (I'm not a Twilight fan either) :oops:

[blunthead]

The first book I remember in my life was The Jungle Book, a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. I seem to remember the pictures, and it's possible my mom or dad or each read from them to me. The books which then became books that mattered to me were The Great Divorce, by CSLewis, A Catcher in the Rye, by JDSalinger, and The Book of Revelation.

My first sK books were The Shining, Misery, and Bag of Bones. These three sKs will always hold a special place for me.

[deroche]

My first SK book I bought was "Thinner", but I can't remember if I had bought it new or used. The second SK book I bought was at a school book fair when I was in middle school, and I jumped immediately at the chance at buying it too when I saw it was by Stephen King. I was just then starting to really get into his books. It was "Nightmares and Dreamscapes." I bought this one that day using my lunch money, instead of lunch.

[randallFlaggfan1]

I read Misery in '93. Since then, I've become accustomed to the SK Universe!

[HorrorMama]

My first SK book was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon when I was eleven years young. I only read a few of his books after that-- Carrie, IT, and Pet Sematary. I read constantly from the age of 4 through 13. I got into skateboarding, horror flicks, and concerts through my teenage years and just recently got back into SK. This past month I re-read Carrie, It, and Pet Sematary and purchased 3 more this morning to finish up soon hopefully!

[randallFlaggfan1]

My first SK book was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon when I was eleven years young. I only read a few of his books after that-- Carrie, IT, and Pet Sematary. I read constantly from the age of 4 through 13. I got into skateboarding, horror flicks, and concerts through my teenage years and just recently got back into SK. This past month I re-read Carrie, It, and Pet Sematary and purchased 3 more this morning to finish up soon hopefully!

Re-reads are awesome.
Welcome back!!

[muskrat]

First book bought with own $ would have to be an old Ace paperback compilation of Robert E Howard's Conan stories, probably "Conan of Cimmeria". First King book bought--uhhh...probably "Misery" back when it was first released in paperback. That was my first book read in one all-night sitting; I literally could not put that book down.