Before you start writing your story, you must decide what you’re going write about. I know … DUH! This doesn’t necessarily mean deciding whether your story will be about vampires or Navy Seals, science fiction or romance, which, of course, you...
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Dreamcatcher by Stephen King I sort of hate myself for loving this book. It’s a replay of just about every post-modern alien story conceived. It’s plot borrows heavily from the whole Alien concept. It is like the infamous Roswell incident on...
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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak This is what authoritarian regimes do to artistic souls, more interested in love, art, and learning than brutal ideological efficiency. Pasternak wrote Doctor Zhivago during an era when people were more...
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It by Stephen King *** Spoiler Alert *** The story: A group of young, and unlikely, friends team up as the “losers club” to defeat a shape-shifting clown (pretty scary, really), only to grow up 27 or so years later to learn that the thing isn’t...
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Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Even if you’ve seen the movie more than 25 times, you’ll still love this book, look forward to getting back to it. There enough new (slightly) to keep it interesting, but especially, the writing a...
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In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami This is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s a bit like Cannery Row meets Silence of the Lambs: a literary tale of two characters’ passage of something meaningful but with some brutal sex and violence...
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The Boys from Brazil by Ira Lavin WARNING! Spoils You for Good Novels Holy smoke! This book was awesome! I wish I had a list of books like this, which I’d never read, and kept them back, savoring them for when I know I’m going to be...
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Area 51 by Bob Mayer This is the guy’s-guy’s book of guy’s-guy’s books. If you’re a guy, you like sports, guns and think “art” is the name of guy on Sesame Street, you don’t like to read pages of...
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