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The Guardian - UK
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Stephen King

Stephen King: ‘I loved Lord of the Flies the way kids love Harry Potter’

Stephen King at his home in Maine.
Stephen King at his home in Maine. Photograph: Steve Schofield (commissioned)

My earliest reading memory
I was five years old, in our third floor apartment in Stratford, Connecticut. The book was The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr Seuss.

My favourite book growing up
Probably And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. It is the perfect whodunnit.

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