I begun my writing career in writing essays on Stephen King's work, LOL. Here in Italy nobody knew him at the time... but I have to say that I've been disappointed by his last "From a Buick 8", it's his first book ever that I took over one week to finish... among my favs are surely "The Stand" (IMO the best one, specially the uncut version), "Dark Tower I, II and III", "It" and "Christine". He scared the hell outta me, sometimes :) S.