I am a very big literature fan. I just finished The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne in English class, and I thought that it was just amazing. I love Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet is in my top five best books of all time). I'll post thoughts on more specific areas, but this is just an overview.
My favorite book of all time is 1984 by George Orwell. Orwell is possibly the best writer to have ever taken up the pen. He writes with such vividness and the emotions in his books are plentiful. He is the type of writer that I want to be. 1984 is probably the most important piece of literature ever published. I have also read Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying which I thought was ingenious.
If I had to pick one genre of literature that I like the most, it would have to be horror literature. I just like being scared (psychologically, not physically.) I believe that there are quite a few very good horror writers on the market today. The following are just a few I can think of off of top of my head:
- Stephen King. He's the King of Horror Fiction, hands down.
- Clive Barker. His writing is just plain poetic. This guy knows what he is doing.
- Douglas Clegg. I read one of Clegg's stories in a horror anthology quite a while ago. I was so excited about the story that e-mailed Clegg and told him how much I liked his story. He responded and recommended some of his books. I have read and/or collected quite a few of them.
- Richard Matheson. I think the no list-of-horror-gods is complete without Richard Matheson. He's a terrific writer. I loved I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come (actually I devoured the latter and cried all night after I finished). His son, Richard Christian Matheson, is very good as well.
- Richard Laymon. Laymon stories are nasty but oh so smart. I read his novel The Island recently and was both repulsed and satisfied at the same time.
OK, I'm missing about a million-trillion authors right now, but I'll post more once I think of them. My mind just isn't working today.
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