Your most beat-up King book?

**SKgirl** · April 14th, 2008

None of my books are really beat up, but, I guess the one that has the most creases in the spine and the yellowest pages is Misery.
I'm not sure why, though. It's not a very old book.

Whitey Appleseed · April 14th, 2008

I try not to show any favoritism...beat 'em all equally...a few wounded ones I've had to put some tape on 'em...bandage 'em up...one of the collections the most recent to receive the purple heart...Different Seasons I think...Blaze is probably due for a session...looking pretty new and pristine up there on the shelf, smug, you might say...

**Flyinglilypad** · April 14th, 2008

My most beat up is definitely Wizard and Glass. ^_^ I was eating oatmeal while reading it and slopped a bunch on the pages. They all had to come out.

Then probably 'Salems Lot. I've had the book for about 10 years, and I left it on the floor of my truck, where it got oil, soda, and fast food all over it. U_U It truly did not deserve such treatment.

Many of mine have had the cover and first couple pages come out, but I will say this for King's books:

NONE of mine have ever cracked into two. I hate when that happens.

**mrbeer** · April 14th, 2008

my most beat up book is the gunslinger paper back. I got it at a used booksale for less than a dollar. The pages are yellow and stained, and the front cover fell off the day I got it. still enjoyed it though!

**Julian** · April 15th, 2008

I love many of Stephen King's stories, though not all of them. My most "beat-up" King books are probably "IT", "Needful Things", "Carrie", "The Stand" and "Salem's Lot". I couldn't really choose just one title as being the most "beat-up". To be honest, I tend to prefer Stephen King's older stories to his newer writings. I dislike the "Dark Tower" series for example. Unlike some writers in the horror genre, I have noticed that Stephen King's characters seem to be more "human" and credible than the creations of others. In other words, his characters almost seem to be real sometimes.......

Julian L Hawksworth

**Ponch** · April 15th, 2008

Salem's lot, paperback. I found this in the bottom of a closet when i was in the 7th grade and it was beat up pretty bad. I still have that copy.
The Stand paperback (the original edited version) is in pretty "well loved" condition too, got that at a used bookstore.
My paperback of IT, the spine is nothing but white cracks, the pages at the bottom are coming away from the glue on the spine, there are thumb-prints where the reader held the book so long so many times, the cover has fallen off and been taped back on.
It was brand new when I bought it and I've read it so many times that all of it was caused by me, but not through neglect or abuse or anything.
Simple wear and tear from loving that book so much.

conniebobonnie · April 15th, 2008

Originally Posted by 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.

love the word play

conniebobonnie · April 15th, 2008

my first set of dt all 7 of them were used when i got them, the gunslinger was my mother in laws and she read it hard and put it up after the cover came off and the spine gave way. after that all the rest were also used and my poor husband told me he would by me a new set and he has and i am trying to keep them from the bath water.

**MrsSmeej** · April 15th, 2008

My hard cover copy of Black House appears to have been caught in a flood or stored in a damp place. There is a strange orange substance growing on the cover and black mold colonies on the first hundred or so pages. I think it adds to the atmosphere.

As long as it isn't

**Shasta** · April 15th, 2008

My old paperback Gunslinger. I must have let 50 people read it and they always gave it back. i loved it because it felt like history, like each person that had read it. Then I gave it to my husband's cousin to read and he left it in some one-night-stand's car, never to be seen again. I could have KILLED him! I had had that book for 15 years. Now I buy used copies whenever I see them so that I can just give them to people. Other than that most of my books are pretty nice. I guess my first edition of the Eyes of the Dragon has some wear because I have a hard time reading the paperback. It just doesn't feel the same.