Adoniram1733 OP t1_jdikfkj wrote on March 24, 2023 at 5:21 PM

Reply to comment by pineboxwaiting in Stephen King's Dark Tower series gave me lucid dreams. Has anyone else ever encountered this, or any other weird side effects of reading good (or bad) books? by Adoniram1733

I was reading Desperation in my room at night when I was a teenager and it actually jump scared me. Like, I almost screamed. King is the King for a reason.

moonandmind t1_jdkiw1v wrote on March 25, 2023 at 1:30 AM

Desperation is terrifying! I had a hard time getting through that one. Scary and all together just really fucked up. I have yet to read its sister novel The Regulators (published under King's alias Richard Bachman.

Adoniram1733 OP t1_jdkoy6a wrote on March 25, 2023 at 2:19 AM

Me neither. I started it right after I read Desperation, but picked something else up instead. I'm a slow reader, and I pick my fiction pretty carefully these days.