Whether or not I was right didn’t really matter to me at the moment. So, I decided to start with the only writer I had ever heard of.Įven without being a reader, I knew that Stephen King was one of the most successful writers in the world, so I figured he must also be good at it. There were so many aisles and different genres, I didn’t know where to begin. Up to that point, I’d completed only three books: The Jungle, The Great Gatsby and Star Wars (see if you can guess which of these books wasn’t assigned to me in school). More importantly than that, I had no idea what sort of books I would enjoy.
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I had no idea how to sift through the vast inventory of books, how to filter the good from the bad.
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I couldn’t wait to choose from the thousands and thousands of books, each of which contained a little movie inside that I could watch in my head.Ībout five seconds after I stepped into Barnes & Noble, I realized that there were too many books. It was an exciting moment for me, because not only did going to a bookstore make me feel (and, hopefully, appear) smart, but I actually wanted to be there. This led me to take my first trip-as an actual reader of books!-to Barnes & Noble. So, at the age of 19, having discovered my own love for reading, I wanted to know if I was one of those people who could read one of those huge books. I was always wowed by the idea that, not only could someone read a book of that size, but they would do so on purpose-and, presumably, enjoy the process. I just remember sitting in the family car (or minivan or pickup truck) driving to Magic Mountain or Disneyland or Knott’s Berry Farm or wherever and watching my mother read a gigantic book, while she sat in the front seat beside my father who was, at the time, serving his thankless role as family chauffeur. In her case, they were romance novels, but that didn’t really matter to me. I decided I wanted to read one of those fat novels, thick like a brick of cash, that I used to see my mother read when I was a kid. I wanted to see just how far I could take this literary trip. In the summer of 1997, just a few months after I discovered my love of reading, I decided I wanted to use my three months away from school to sufficiently challenge my reading chops.
Insomnia, by Stephen King, stands as one of the most important books I’ve ever read.
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