August Book Club

Stephen King's early works

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In 1999, my father accompanied me to the cinema to see The Green Mile. It felt particularly glamorous at the time as The Green Mile was an Adult and Grown Up Film. It also happened to be my father’s way of introducing Stephen King to me, one of his favourite authors of all time.

I read The Green Mile after watching that film and have been dipping in and out of King’s bibliography ever since. Now, in soothingly obsessed fashion, I’ve returned to the start of his career to attempt to read his work chronologically. Like Dickens or Christie, King is a prolific genius. It’s hard to think of another author who has managed such diversity of literary, genre and commercial success.

So, over the last little bit, I’ve devoured his first three novels: Carrie, Salem’s Lot and The Shining.