Seeing SK in everthing I read . . .

[BJTBITS]

We're all reading other authors besides SK, right? Well, are any of you jolted
by some reference -- it may be a name or a situation -- just something in
another novel that smacks you and makes you think of something you read by
Stephen King? Coincidences? Yeah, I *hope* so, cause SK references just seem
to follow me wherever I try to go. <g>

Since I started reading this ng, this seems to happen to me more and more
often. Two examples:
1) _Contact_ by Carl Sagan -- I was reading right along until I hit this
section, "Standing upright on the sand was a door. . . From the back, the door
was not there at all. . ..She moved to the side, the heels of her feet
moistened by the surf, and she could make out a single dark razor-thin
vertical line." Doors on a beach!

2) _Only Son_ by Kevin O'Brien -- I'd just finiished reading the posts about
Killer Clowns and John Wayne Gacy when I started this book. At the beginning
of Chapter Two, "He remembered a clown portrait that hung in his room when he
was a little boy. . .Sometimes in the night that clown picture looked evil and
scary. . . There were rooms that Carl was afraid to enter alone. He was
convinced that a monster lurked in that house. And he was right." And the
little boy's *evil* father's name is Walter.

Okay, so scary clowns is a common theme, and *Walter* doesn't mean the
character must be evil. But, geez, sometimes even when I consciously *try* to
get away from Steve, he pops right up out of nowhere. Anybody else see SK in
nearly everything they read?

Bits . . . (still wondering why *Claudio*, her hubby's name, was used as a
character in _The Drawing of the Three_)