But I am an odd sort of reader, currently I'm pretty much stuck in the 16th century and before. I'm never going to get through all the old stuff in time to get to much modern literature, let alone trashy potboilers like King's. Right now I'm reading C.S. Lewis on Gavin Douglas (b. 1497) the Scots poet and translator of Virgil.
Well, I’m an armchair historian when it comes to the Civil War and the American West, but I do read my share of contemporary novels; the likes of Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and then stuff by writers like James Patterson, Michael Connelly or Jeffrey Deaver. But these are simply for enjoyment. It’s the history I crave.
Anything like King’s stuff that brings in what I’d call the supernatural is something I avoid. Never have, never will have, any taste for that.