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Not one of my favorites. Found him long-winded the first time I read this....my opinion hasn't really changed, although I do have a new respect for some of the movies he discussed.

Wow this book must not be anyone's favorite. No one joined in at all!

I really enjoyed this the first time I read it. But I haven’t reread it yet.

I appreciated the glimpses into King’s life and this was also a fast read for me so it did keep me interested. It had me adding a lot of books to my must read list. What he said about Sputnik, and how they announced it to the theater was very interesting.

What I've always found interesting about this book is that it shows us what he was thinking about as he prepared to write IT - he published this a few months before launching into IT and there are bits and pieces that turn up in both books. The opening lines are almost identical; "He thrusts his fists against the posts" comes from a discussion of Donovan's Brain; the teenage werewolf is in here; there's a lengthy discussion of Something Wicked This Way Comes; anecdotes about King's life get repurposed in IT. He also discusses themes of magic, power, and belief (particularly the ability of children to exercise that belief) that underpin IT as well.

I dip back into this book all the time, but I rarely find used copies and almost no one I know ever read it. When it was published, it received the highest bid for paperback rights for a non-fiction book, written by an author not known for non-fiction, at that time. It was more than half a million dollars -- more than the paperback rights for The Shining went for.

I’m definitely going to need to give this another read soon. I’m reading Black House again right now, next up will likely be Other Worlds Than These, so maybe after that.