I love Stephen King (but not in a 'Misery' way)

[Rosehay]

Just finished 'Under the Dome' and am currently experiencing that feeling off loss. It took me three days and some very late nights, but as usual i couldn't put it down.
I first discovered King in 1983 when i picked up an old 'Carrie' paperback, and i haven't stopped being a fan of his works since then. I read 'Thinner' by Richard Bachman, and identified it as the work of Stephen King straight away. He has a very distinctive style and great humour. I have read the majority of his novels and have rarely been disapointed. I get annoyed when King is judged as a 'pulp horror' writer, i think he deserves mor critical aclaim, but he'll probably have to die before he gets it. He's a storyteller. You only have to look at 'the Dark Tower' series to see that, and the 'Shawshank Redemption' of course, which is everybody's favourite film, and who can read 'The Green Mile' without shedding a tear?
He's books have been my constant companion over the past twenty seven years, and i have remained the 'constant reader', proudly and with dignity. I love Stephen King.

[tillyn]

Rosehay, i agree with you 100% what a story teller, i actually cried when i was reading the wolfs of calla, can you believe it, I can't. I got into those characters, who couldn't 7 books will do it. Also i felt melancholy after reading The Green Mile.