When I was younger, I suffered through many troubled nights because of nightmares featuring Twain’s larger-than-life villain, Injun Joe. * I have always been a big fan of Mark Twain and particularly THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (in fact, my oldest son’s middle name came very close to being “Sawyer”). Of course, I was powerless to do anything of the sort all I could do was keep flipping the pages. I was maybe ten years older than her, and it was her character I most closely identified with. * As I got deeper into FIRESTARTER, I grew to love Charlie McGee like a little sister. During the many beach summers to come, I saw dozens of other readers with Stephen King books in their hands, and it always made me smile. I remember thinking she was crazy to read a hardcover on the beach. She was glistening with sunscreen and a trio of hyper little kids were running circles around her, hooting and throwing sand at each other.
* At some point on the second day, I remember looking off to the side and noticing an older woman reading a shiny hardcover edition of THE DEAD ZONE. I took occasional breaks to swim and eat and probably nodded off a couple times - the warmth of the sun and the sound of the surf have that effect on me - but other than that, the book never left my hands. * I read the novel over a two day period, sitting alone on the 4th Street beach in Ocean City, Maryland.
I still have my old paperback edition sitting on the bookshelf. I first read FIRESTARTER the summer after I graduated from high school.
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