On Writing #1

I’ve been a Stephen King fan long before this book, just putting that out there, and this book reminds me why I love to read his stories. On Writing begins with a not so classic, very humorous description of his life. The second foreword, which describes most books about writing as "filled with b********", and that pretty much sums up my opinion of them and well, most stories about a person's life as well. But I actually have really enjoyed these first hundred pages, because they are not what I would normally expect. I don't imagine writing books as being full of words that I cannot even type on a school paper, no matter how much I would LOVE to quote some of this. But I very much relate to some of this that he's written. Such as about his "stripe throat", haha, I go through that EVERY year, right now unfortunately to be honest. But with the needle stuff, no way, I shuddered. WORST part of the book. I hate needles. He didn't make it any easier to read with all those descriptions either. "Loud kissing sound" and "hot fluid" do not make needles sound any more appealing. I must admit though, I laughed at the part about poison ivy. I'm not allergic to it, so I find it even funnier, because I can't relate to that. I didn't really care much about his publishing stories though, even though I'm pretty sure that's what I'm supposed to care about. The stories about his ideas for books and how he got rejected constantly and so on just didn't appeal to or impress me. I mean, it's not that I don't, oh I can't remember the word so we'll go with appreciate, that he kept trying despite the rejection he got into; it just did not matter much to me to read. The stories about the newspapers in school or when he wrote the book on "The Pit and the Pendulum", however, were much more interesting and therefore, kept my attention on them. I'm going to admit right here though, that I did not do the annotations during the reading process (I’m re-reading to them). I did mark one thing during my reading though, and that's because it made me laugh. But that's far from being appropriate to type; it's the "killing for peace..." quote. It makes sense to me! And I must say, that’s the one line I showed my parents, and they laughed at it too (both are Stephen King fans as well).