I read the Stand when I was way too young to read it - at an Aunt's house, when my mother was talking to my Aunt in hushed tones.
Come to think of it, that might have been before my mother left my adopted father - so I was about 8? 9?. I read it here and there in hidden snatches, because Stephen King was on my not allowed to read after I read Firestarter at 7 or 8 and my mother found out after I read it what he wrote, from a concerned family friend who thought i was way too young. That might be why I associate that book with change.
When we moved to a new house, and my cat had tried to kill me once - (some cats do not like to be the last things left in the house to move and will go for your jugular when you try to catch the hissing cat to carry it to the new house - we think the empty house freaked him out - he missed and I learned to leave the hissing cats alone) - I was read Pet Cemetary and said entirely black in coat and therefore very sneaky in the dark room (reading by flashlight) kitty decided to jump in my lap for petting right as I got to the point where the cat Comes Back Wrong.
Poor kitty didn't understand my reaction. What with the screaming and the terror and all. No pettings until I calmed down and tracked kitty down to apologize and give him tuna.
I would walk over a mile to the library each way, with a backpack so full of books that it barely zipped, hiking backpacks because normal ones couldn't stand the wear and tear of my every week and half trip to the library. Stephen King books were huge, and the librarians would look at me with concern as I filled the backpack and point out that I had already read that book, but since I didn't own, couldn't own 'cause of the ban on Stephen King... so I would rotate them in and out - the Stand, Carrie, Firestarter, the Eyes of the Dragon... I have forgetton all the ones I used to read as kid.
I can relate to saving to buy books - I went without lunch to buy books. Used books, new paperbacks when I had a birthday or could shovel snow, or run errands or the like. Seriously, I was shoveling now in elementary school to buy GI Joes, My Little Ponies, and BOOKS. New paperbacks only because people didn't tend to read much where I lived, so used books were hard to find. Quarters and nickels and pennies saved to buy books. When I just download a book now to my magic phone, when I can do that and not skip a meal, it's still feels very much like magic.
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Date: 2012-09-21 08:16 pm (UTC)Come to think of it, that might have been before my mother left my adopted father - so I was about 8? 9?. I read it here and there in hidden snatches, because Stephen King was on my not allowed to read after I read Firestarter at 7 or 8 and my mother found out after I read it what he wrote, from a concerned family friend who thought i was way too young. That might be why I associate that book with change.
When we moved to a new house, and my cat had tried to kill me once - (some cats do not like to be the last things left in the house to move and will go for your jugular when you try to catch the hissing cat to carry it to the new house - we think the empty house freaked him out - he missed and I learned to leave the hissing cats alone) - I was read Pet Cemetary and said entirely black in coat and therefore very sneaky in the dark room (reading by flashlight) kitty decided to jump in my lap for petting right as I got to the point where the cat Comes Back Wrong.
Poor kitty didn't understand my reaction. What with the screaming and the terror and all. No pettings until I calmed down and tracked kitty down to apologize and give him tuna.
I would walk over a mile to the library each way, with a backpack so full of books that it barely zipped, hiking backpacks because normal ones couldn't stand the wear and tear of my every week and half trip to the library. Stephen King books were huge, and the librarians would look at me with concern as I filled the backpack and point out that I had already read that book, but since I didn't own, couldn't own 'cause of the ban on Stephen King... so I would rotate them in and out - the Stand, Carrie, Firestarter, the Eyes of the Dragon... I have forgetton all the ones I used to read as kid.
I can relate to saving to buy books - I went without lunch to buy books. Used books, new paperbacks when I had a birthday or could shovel snow, or run errands or the like. Seriously, I was shoveling now in elementary school to buy GI Joes, My Little Ponies, and BOOKS. New paperbacks only because people didn't tend to read much where I lived, so used books were hard to find. Quarters and nickels and pennies saved to buy books. When I just download a book now to my magic phone, when I can do that and not skip a meal, it's still feels very much like magic.