A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King

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A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King.

When your kids were young, did you read to them?
Oh, yeah. And they read to me, because I would pay them $10 a cassette tape. They read me books that I just shoved into their hands. I think my daughter, Naomi, must’ve read me all of Wilbur Smith’s novels, one after another. When she was 14, she read me a book called Raven, about the Jonestown thing. You know, the Reverend Jim Jones? Drinking the Kool-Aid?

Wait a minute—you made a 14-year-old read you a book about the Jonestown suicide cult?
[laughs] Yeah, I absolutely did. And at the end of it, she said, “Dad, yuck.”

Great way to get your kids to read! :-)