I have grown up reading Stephen King's fiction and now it feels as if we have both reached maturity together (myself in reading tastes and King in writing). This is the author I saw glimpses of in reading "The Body" and "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshenk Redemption." Reading it made me rethink the story of Christ and pick up "Hearts in Atlantis" and "Bag of Bones." Absolutely spellbinding!