I have written it down many times, not a big story.
I was about 12 and I was hooked on Dean R. Koontz. I read all his books and once when I went to the bookstore to buy some new books by him I was shocked to see I had read all of them which were published at that time. I was incredibly sad and disappointed.
I didn't want to buy anything else but just to be on the safe side (I still hoped that I could find something new by him) I checked the shelves again.
Than I suddenly saw DotT. The picture was quite interesting and when I read the back of the book I felt that's the most extraordinary thing I had ever read in my life. So I bought it but I didn't hope to get anything speciel from it. I didn't know that it was the second book of a long series.
In the other hand I started with DotT because the Gunslinger wasn't sold there in that very shop and if you go into a bookshop these days usually you cannot find it. I have no idea why.
When I finished it I was hooked on the story and I started to hunt for the first book and after some days and many shops I could buy it at last.
Anyway I read the first 4 books during a week or so. . Then I had to stop of course because Kind hadn't written the 5th book yet.