I love King's stories. He really is genius in setting them up and simply just writing them. I especially love the ones in which he has a few stories going at once and then ties them all up into a neat bundle at the end ("The Green Mile" comes to mind now).

King is the Edgar Allan Poe of our day and times.

I used to enjoy sci-fi also. Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury are two authors I'd recommend.

The last book I read was a bio on Duke Snider given to me by a friend. I like bios.