The 1st 100 Pages of On Writing

I’ve been a Stephen King fan long before this book and it reminds me why I love his stories so much. On Writing begins with a very humorous description of his life and his forms of writting. The second foreword tells how most books about writing are as King said "are filled with bullsh*t", that also pretty much sums up my opinion of them as well. But to be completely honest, I have actually really enjoyed reading these first hundred pages, because they are not what I would have normally expect. I never would of imagined writing books as being full of questionable words that I can't even type on a school blog, even though I would LOVE to quote some of his stuff from this. But I can relate to some of the stuff that he has written. Such as his story about "strep throat", haha. But as far as with the needle stuff, no way, I shudder. I hate needles. He didn't make it any easier to read with all those descriptions either, eeeekkkkk. "Loud kissing sound" and "hot fluid" do not make needles sound any more appealing at all. However, I do have to admit that I laughed at the part about the poison ivy. I'm not allergic to it, so I found it even more funny, because I can not 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 so often; it just didn't appeal and/or impress me. I mean, it's not that I don't admire his effort or respect the fact that he kept trying despite the rejection he got into; it just did not seem as important to me to read. The stories about the newspapers in school when he wrote the book on "The Pit and the Pendulum"; however, were much more interesting and thus kept my attention entirely on them. But as of this moment the book is going well and I am enjoying it; well the first one-hundred pages atleast.