Back when I was teaching high school English in Malaysia, I had the students each select a poem to do a bunch of work with, including read aloud. A Japanese boy with a very strong Japanese accent chose "The Bells."

And now I can't unhear his version.

Every so often, when it seems that everyone's sent their bill at once, I think I hear "the tintinnabulation of the bills". sigh ....

Didn't you love Elizabeth, P-C? And Wireman...I'd like to sit down and have some margaritas with him.

Elizabeth was great! And I really liked Wireman a lot. His constant use of Spanish was simultaneously annoying and endearing (especially given his reason for knowing it). I was so sad that he had to fucking die so soon after everything settled down. I know Perse didn't have anything to do with it (OR DID SHE), but it sucks.

ITA on your whitefont. But King'll do that; have you read "Bag of Bones?" If not, I really recommend!

I have not! I haven't read a lot of modern King. Or old-school King. There is a lot of King, after all.

Get on that horse, fella! Go to a used bookstore and get some of the old stuff, cheap. Or try Skeleton Crew or Different Seasons if, like me, you need to read short stories before red, or else you're up the whole night or most of it, finishing the damned novel!

I know I read one of the short story collections a long time ago, but I can't remember which. I think it was whichever one had "Sometimes They Come Back" and "The Lawnmower Man" (which, what the hell, was nothing at all like the movie). I will probably check out the Nightmares and Dreamscapes audiobook because it has a huge cast of readers, many of whom I recognize.

Everything's Eventual is a pretty good SS collection.

Go to a used bookstore and get some of the old stuff, cheap.

Yes. You need to read 'Salem's Lot, like, right now. And as I said a few months ago, IT held up surprisingly well from the last time I read it. (Except for that one plot point, but that was ludicrous the first time around, too.)