My favorite novelist would have to be Stephen King. Most of his writing is too scary to read, like the books, Tommyknockers and Pet Semetary. Tommyknockers scared me so bad, I couldn’t get past page ten. My sister bought the paperback book, The Eyes of the Dragon, published in 1987 right after graduation in 1988. I read it while she went on vacation in New York for the entire month of June.
What makes Stephen King attractive as a novelist, and one of my favorites, is that he is diverse, he can easily move from horror to science fiction to non-fiction. That means I will always be able to find something to read without having to scare myself half to death. It’s the same with his movies too. I can watch: Carrie (1976), Salem’s Lot (1979), Firestarter (1984 with Drew Barrymore), Stand By Me (1986), Sleepwalkers (1992), and The Langoliers (1995 miniseries with Bronson Pinchot) I don’t know how I managed to sit through Cujo (1983), but I did it. “The Langoliers” was a disappointment because Pinchot’s character spent most of the movie running from his own shadow.
I own books I-IV of The Dark Tower series (1982-1997) and would like to purchase books V-VII, written in 2003 and 2004. I’d like to see what Stephen King does with this gunslinger. I’d also like to read what he says in his book, On Writing: Memoir of the Craft (2000), because it’s his diversity that makes him a favorite of mine.