Stephen King is the MAN, my all time favorite. Sure, his stuff isn't highbrow but goddam does he know how to tell a story.
My all time favorite book though is "The Terror" by Dan Simmons. Here's a quick blurb:
The Terror is the name of a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons.[1] The novel is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Arctic to force the Northwest Passage in 1845–1848. In the novel, while Franklin and his crew are plagued by starvation and scurvy and forced to contend with mutiny and cannibalism, they are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by a monster.[2]
The characters featured in The Terror are almost all actual members of Franklin's crew, whose unexplained disappearance has warranted a great deal of speculation. The main characters in the novel include Sir John Franklin, commander of the expedition and captain of Erebus, Captain Francis Crozier, captain of Terror, Dr Harry D.S Goodsir, and Captain James Fitzjames.[3]
In the final chapters of the book, Simmons explores and uses various aspects of Eskimo mythology to explain the existence of the monster (called the Tuunbaq) as a mythological creature made flesh, as well as its reasons for stalking and preying on the men of the Franklin Expedition.
The Terror was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in 2008.[4]
If you like King you'll like this book.
Stephen King is the MAN, my all time favorite. Sure, his stuff isn't highbrow but goddam does he know how to tell a story.
My all time favorite book though is "The Terror" by Dan Simmons. Here's a quick blurb:
The Terror is the name of a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons.[1] The novel is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Arctic to force the Northwest Passage in 1845–1848. In the novel, while Franklin and his crew are plagued by starvation and scurvy and forced to contend with mutiny and cannibalism, they are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by a monster.[2]
The characters featured in The Terror are almost all actual members of Franklin's crew, whose unexplained disappearance has warranted a great deal of speculation. The main characters in the novel include Sir John Franklin, commander of the expedition and captain of Erebus, Captain Francis Crozier, captain of Terror, Dr Harry D.S Goodsir, and Captain James Fitzjames.[3]
In the final chapters of the book, Simmons explores and uses various aspects of Eskimo mythology to explain the existence of the monster (called the Tuunbaq) as a mythological creature made flesh, as well as its reasons for stalking and preying on the men of the Franklin Expedition.
The Terror was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in 2008.[4]
If you like King you'll like this book.
The Catcher and the Rye
It's
really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. ~J.D.
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9
Sex is something I really don't understand too
hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep
making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.
Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls
that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same
week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. ~J.D.
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9
I was half in love with her by the time we sat
down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something
pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid,
you fall half in love with them, and then you never knowwhere the
hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you
crazy. They really can. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the
Rye, Chapter 10
I
mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you
can really watch them losing their brains. You take a
girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. ~J.D.
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13
Goddam money. It always ends up making
you blue as hell. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye,
Chapter 15
The Catcher and the Rye
It's
really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. ~J.D.
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9
Sex is something I really don't understand too
hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep
making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away.
Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls
that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same
week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. ~J.D.
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9
I was half in love with her by the time we sat
down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something
pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid,
you fall half in love with them, and then you never knowwhere the
hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you
crazy. They really can. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the
Rye, Chapter 10
I
mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you
can really watch them losing their brains. You take a
girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. ~J.D.
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13
Goddam money. It always ends up making
you blue as hell. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye,
Chapter 15
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