Stephen King is one of the most famous living authors in the world. He's published over 50 novels, many of them iconic in the world of modern literature. Ask anyone to name a famous author and King's name will undoubtedly be mentioned. And I hate him. In high school and college I loved King. I read all his early stuff. The Shining, Carrie, Pet Cemetery, Skeleton Crew. But my favorite was The Stand. I loved that book. It's still probably in my top twenty. The post-apocalyptic

Is summer reading still a thing people do? It's tough to judge people's relationships with literature sometimes when you're an English teacher. I just assume people read because I often see people reading, but those people I usually see reading are reading because I forced them to do so. Usually if people are waiting for something or just hanging out they're trolling on their phone so passive reading is nearly extinct. People really have to go out of their way to read a book