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Originally Posted by Phoenix
nice..i like his humour
worth about 200 million or so...damn
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That's only because he got older, stopped doing coke and caffiene, and slowed right the fuck down down. He might not be "hip" now, but he's still a better writer (and observer of the human condition) than anyone else alive. Except maybe Clive Barker and Peter Straub - but they're lying low, too. Can't blame them, though...
(Read the entire Harry Potter series of books. All one billion useless pages of it. Then read Clive Barker's "In The Hills, The Cities." Twenty-seven pages from The Books of Blood, Vol. 1. Clive Barker put more imagination, emotion, and personal experience into those 27 pages than J(oke) K(ing) Rollins put into Harry Potter. Glad she's a billionaire. She can't write for shit, but she's real good at whoring herself out for children. Adult novels for children. What a concept!
If you're up for some real "modern" British fantasy literature, take a stab at Weaveworld.
Stephen King's "On Writing" was a change of life experience. I worship every word that drips out of the end of that man's penis, err, I meant PEN!!! Whether its relevant to my life or not - whether his movies have been brilliant (they haven't) - Stephen King is the single greatest American writer since Mark Twain. 90% crap, 10% timeless brilliance.
Actually READ Stand By Me, or Mrs. Todd's Shortcut (Just pure, simple beauty. A dream come to life. This story almost made me want to become an American citizen. Seriously - I wanted to pack up and move to Maine. I wanted to LIVE in one of the places that Mr. King was writing about.) Go back and read The Shining or Salem's Lot in a darkened room. Turn on the lights and read The Gunslinger series. Read his collaborations with Peter Straub.
I think he's done, though. I think Stephen King has quit.
I'm nuts? You read all this? You're fucking crazy.
Read Clive Barker's Books of Blood
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Every body is a book of blood;
Whenever we're opened; we're red.
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GFY is NOT a good place to write an essay. I'll be taking this somewhere else.
Read Clive Barker's Books of Blood, though. Really. Seriously. Honeslty. Truly.
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Its best to be prepared for the worst, after all, and wise to learn to walk before breath runs out.
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