Having been overswept by a wave of NOSTALGIA, it suddenly recurs to me that 1986-ish was a time when I read not only the Hitchhiker’s Guide series, but also Stephen King’s “It”, “The Bachman Books”, all the contemporarily-available Stephen King short story collections, and (IMPORTANTLY) The Book of the Subgenius. Just a normal okay 12 year old doing normal okay 12 year-old things.