![]() ![]() And though I have talked about Stephen King for a while now, this is actually the reason why I’m writing these words-a few months later than what I had planned. However, it wasn’t until last Christmas that I finally had the chance to get my hands on a copy of Heart-Shaped Box, published in 2007. I had to read his work or, at least, this book. By the time I found out he has a book titled after one of my favorite songs in the entire world, featuring nods to other songs and bands that are also a fundamental part of my existence, I was sold. Of course, Stephen King’s talent doesn’t justify Joe Hill’s, but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t the fact that he was Stephen King’s son what caught my attention in the first place. When he writes about some primal fear or unknown creature, he does it as if he had encountered that in real life himself, not as it was something that came to his mind one fine day-which is already an achievement in itself. He is a storyteller, in the ancestral meaning of the world. And yes, not only did I love it, but it also reminded me why I used to be so fascinated by Stephen King’s writing in the first place. Thus, I started reading 11/22/63, a book I got as a birthday present back when it came out but that I had completely forgotten about-surprisingly so, since it has pretty much everything I enjoy in life: time travels, conspiracies surrounding JFK’s assassination and a TV adaptation starring James Franco. I am not quite sure what it was that made me feel that way-I have a few ideas that have absolutely nothing to do with the contents of his books, though-but I stopped reading his books for almost an entire decade, until lockdown came and I couldn’t go outside anymore to buy more books to add to my endless pile of works to be read. Truth is, as I got older, I somehow got tired of his books. You might be wondering why I started this post by saying that I have the strangest of relationships with Stephen King. ![]() Thus, helped by my passion for making lists of things that I need to do, read or watch, I decided I would read every single book Stephen King had ever written up to that point-which I didn’t really manage to do, but I have actually read most of the things he published up to 2011. King because he had proven to be a brilliant storyteller. However, given these were the times before the internet was an accessible source of information for me, I stuck to Mr. Contrary to what anyone would assume, though, I realized I was fascinated by not only his books, but the horror genre as a whole. This was also what made me discover Stephen King’s most iconic horror stories when I was still the most impressionable kid. I think that was precisely what made me so eager to read more, and what made me so passionate about books and the abstract concept of literature and languages in general. Seuss book and then follow that one with William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the original version of the text. Not only that, but I started to read books that were most definitely not meant for someone my age-next to those that were actually meant for kids my age, causing the funniest of contrasts I would read a Dr. I am one of those bookworms who started to read way too soon. Before this gets too weird, let me explain what I mean. I have always had the strangest of relationships with Stephen King. ![]()
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