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It was such a treat to listen to the Audible version of this. Steven Weber reads it as well as I've heard anything's being read before. Outstanding performance.

And so to the book - for all its flaws, it still completely draws me in and moves in emotionally as I connect to my younger self as I was when I first read this at the age of 19 and again at the age of 26. I'm now 48. It gives me something different each time, but the constant is the connection to childhood that King writes about so well, and the depiction of childhood love that I can relate to so well. (apart from that scene - you know the one if you've read it.)