Your most beat-up King book?

[LadyPain]

I am sure I am not the only person who has a battered book or two. Hopefully you are not the one who did the damage. What does it look like?

My most battered King book is "From a Buick8". I rescued it from a library book sale for 25 cents. The bottom righthand corner was chewed off. A rat got at it. The rest of the book looks like it might have been shared with all of the Stephen King fans in Canada before I got my hands on it. It's really worn out.

I looked at that book for a while before I read it. It was attacked by the kind of critters that usually end up in the novels. Somehow, it seems appropriate to have a book like that once in a while.

Quid pro quo.

[Cowboy]

My copy of Everythings Eventual is pretty beat up! Someone bought the paperback version and read it. They knew I liked Sai King so they gave it to me. They folded the pages back as they read it and it almost looks like it went through a good stone washing. I will get around to replacing it eventually.

[The Dark Tower]

I found my moms first edition hardcover of IT down in the basement (about 5 years ago). 1/3 of the pages were bent the wrong way so it couldn't even close. I nursed it back to health and now you can't even tell My most beat up one now is The Bachman Books, which I bought from a used books store.

[bookworm101]

my paperback The Stand

my hardback Eyes of the Dragon

[REDRUM617]

My most beat-up King book is IT. It's the hardcover edition with tears, marks, and stains all throughout the DJ. We're just getting started! The actual book has stains on the pages, scuff marks, and the last 100 pages or so kind of...fell out.

[mstay]

My paperback copy of the Stand - Uncut is pretty ragged. The front and back covers are gone, the last page is not attached (I keep it tucked inside) and a number of other pages are about ready to fall out. But I love it!

My hardback copies of the first 4 Harry Potter books are falling apart. There are whole sections and individual pages that are not attached to the binding anymore. This is because my son read these four books about 5 times each when he was in 4th, 5th and 6th grade. I wish he read that much now.

BTW does anyone know where or how to get a book re bound?

[Sam Catoe]

I had to replace my paperback copy of Eyes of the Dragon twice. I read that book to death.

[Todash]

Much as I love SK's fiction, my copy of Danse Macabre looks like it's been through a couple of alternate universes and back. I love that book; it's good, solid (but not unsufferably "literate") analysis, and there's not much that's more entertaining than watching smart people think.

[kataline96]

My most beat up King-book is my copy of Skeleton Crew. It was an ex-library book left behind by a flatmate when I was in university. The pages that haven't fallen out are yellow and leave a strange greasy feeling on your fingertips. The cover is hanging on by a thread. It has handwritten notes inside than I think are Mandarin translations of certain phrases. Most of it is still readable though, so I haven't gotten rid of it.

[mojomofo]

IT, Desperation, Insomnia and the paperback Bachman books. They all are stained, torn, pages about to fall out...