More recently I’ve read The Shining, Salem’s Lot, The Institute, Billy Summers, The Tommy Knockers, Pet Semetary, and Cujo. All exceptional. While I might reread the Dark Tower series some day, the only book by Stephen King I’ve read more than once is his autobiography On Writing. I’ve read or listened to it perhaps five times. It’s a powerful little book with a lot of good things in it.
Like any powerful little book going back to it rewards the reader with things that didn’t stand out the first or second or third times. For me, on this current read through what stood out was the comment that, for a writer, destroying your Tee Vee isn’t a bad idea.
This book was first published in 2000 so I think the internet can be a helpful stand in for tee vee, in this case.
As an aspiring parent I think about it a lot, and when I think about it technology appears like quite a boogie man. Prohibition is where I’ve landed with it when it comes to children and I can’t really expect them to live up to that standard of ascetisism while I play videogames and watch endless hours of youtube, can I?
Maybe it’s time I strip my power cable, wrap it around a nail, and plug it back in as the old Mainer suggests.