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Stephen King is the face of horror and suspense novels and has authored over 50 popular books to prove it. Throughout his career he has won almost every award a writer can receive and has achieved worldwide fame and success. His simple but effective writing style along with his hours of hard work he puts towards his writings each day, is attributed to his success. His novels had sold millions of copies and his books have been adapted into movies several time including Rose Red, Pet Cemetery, and The Shining. One fact that is less studies and noticed with regards to his works is the many riddles that exist in his novels. These riddles are important to his novels and add some fun to the reading. The most common uses of riddles in literature is for entertainment value and as a test of a character's intelligence, and King is no different. Many of his novels are physiological studies of his characters, making riddles fit very well into the structure of the story. In one of his series he even uses riddles as a way to directly pit people against each other in a riddle competition to test their individual abilities, and also their intellect with respect to each other. By doing this he creates a precedent in the fantasy worlds of his stories in which intellect is the most important thing about a person rather than their physical strength or outwards appearance. A series by Stephan King, The Dark Tower Series, takes advantage riddles and the pages are littered with them. The main character of the books, Roland Deschain, is the last remaining member of a group called The Gunslingers. Riddles are of such importance in this world that they hold competitions between members of the society based upon riddles. During these competitions all that want to participate line up in a previously decided order behind a barrel that holds all of the riddles written by members of the society since the beginning of their society. Once they are ready, the person in the front of the line hands the riddle they draw to the "Riddle Master." The Riddle Master says the riddle aloud and the person has 3 minutes to give their answer. If they get it wrong or don't answer they are disqualified and the next person gets their chance to answer it. They continue doing this until the final person, the winner, remains. An example of a riddle from these competitions goes as follows: "Not chest or box is now discussed. Money can be held in it, but just as we test its metal, within it there is rust." Trust is the answer to this riddle. He uses riddles in a similar fashion in many of his works. Stephen King is a great novelist and he is one of the most influential writers of our time. His works will be studied in the future just as Shakespeare's and Homer's are today. For more on Stephen King visit his Wikipedia page. For some more great riddles of your own to solve visit Good Riddles Now's kids riddles and answers page.
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