I going to start by saying
I going to start by saying I love Stephen King and like the article mentions I got hooked on him in the early days of middle school (my first book was The Dark Half.), but I really wasn any of the stereotypes that he mentions, I just really liked horror novels and King was really the next logical step for my best friend and I. I think most people who read really do it for an escape, heck I use to work next to a used bookstore and the owner would come in all the time for a cup of tea and we would chat, she told me that she couldn count the amount of Doctors/Lawyers/high power business ladies that would come in at the start of the summer and buy up all the Harlequin romance novels for some mindless fun and stupid summer reading. She said that she asked them a few times why and they would tell her nearly the same thing, that there lives are so busy and serious that they liked to read what is really just candy for the mind to just not have to think to hard about things (which is what they ...