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**tracie** · March 17th, 2009

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

**Cowboy** · March 17th, 2009

Bought it myself.

**tillyn** · March 17th, 2009

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** · March 17th, 2009

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** · March 17th, 2009

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** · March 17th, 2009

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** · March 18th, 2009

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** · March 18th, 2009

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

**crazycrashink** · March 18th, 2009

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** · March 18th, 2009

Originally Posted by 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.

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!