Talking Story

He does such an amazing job of walking that tightrope between classic fantasy and kind of a modern storytelling technique here in this trilogy.

This Look, this goes straight for the throat. This is a story about an occupation. It is a story about a war.

This is standard setting. Genre modern genre defining in a way. This lets us know what fantasy is in our modern day and age.

But for me, still the magic from era one just hasn't been captured yet going forward with Wax and Wayne.

I love the ups and downs. I love the journey. I loved so much about it.

It's still it's such a formative read for me. I think I think I absolutely want to do a reread of The Stand, but it's absolutely number two for me.

Maybe my favorite book of all time. Depends on the day. It changes.

Such an interesting character study of a group of people, kind of like his dad, Stephen King, did with It.

I cannot wait for you to read this. It is just beautiful and at the same time mysterious and frightening and exalting in the possibilities of the mysterious.

She's a master. Oh, the lush gothic descriptions, the lingering upon these New Orleans streets, the sense of time and place and atmosphere that she brings to every page, the longing for the human experience.

Oh, Books of Blood, if we were doing short stories, that would absolutely be way up close to the top.

I have to put Swan Song number one as my favorite horror read. It I think it's truly something special.

I read this in high school and I was just completely bowled over and smitten and have never have never been able to let go of it.

This is such a wild ride, such a wild ride.

I found it chilling, I found it creepy, I found it made me look around the corners of what's happening, what I think is real.

This is why I love the genre so much. Loved this read.

For me, I just see it's somebody swinging for the fences and taking some huge swings. and they absolutely knocked it out of the park for me.

I've loved F. Paul Wilson for decades, decades, decades. I think this is one of his best book.

Bone Clocks all this overarching story of this battle between good and evil on the physical and metaphysical realms that's going on through generation after generation after generation after century after century after century all tied together through his big story. Bone Clocks is like I wanted it on I want I but I just couldn't get a slot.

I almost got Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet on there where you think about oh, this is what are you talking about this is genre and then by the end it's like wow, this is no holds barred full-blown horror like nightmare fuel galore.

I'm sure there are so many things in this story that I missed because I've not read Ghost written or Cloud Atlas or Bone Clocks or all his other stories in this big grand connected universe he has. but man, what a fun ghost story.

I love the style of it. I love the first-person narrative the way it's like a recorded history of what's gone on during this zombie apocalypse.

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson an absolute classic.

It was so brilliantly told.