30 days of books: Day Eight

Day 08 – A book everyone should read at least once

I find this kind of question hard, because there’s really no one book that *everyone* should read.  And I hate the word should.

So I’m going to take this from a slightly different perspective – the book that people should read to get an idea of who I am and what really triggers my interest.

There are many that I could suggest here, but I’m going to have to go with Clive Barker’s Imajica.  It contains one of the things that really interest me in fiction – in worlds behind the world.  I love the dark worlds that Barker imagines, and his characters always live and breathe.  It’s something that I would have loved to have written myself.

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Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

30 days of books: Day Eight

Day 08 – A book everyone should read at least once

I find this kind of question hard, because there’s really no one book that *everyone* should read.  And I hate the word should.

So I’m going to take this from a slightly different perspective – the book that people should read to get an idea of who I am and what really triggers my interest.

There are many that I could suggest here, but I’m going to have to go with Clive Barker’s Imajica.  It contains one of the things that really interest me in fiction – in worlds behind the world.  I love the dark worlds that Barker imagines, and his characters always live and breathe.  It’s something that I would have loved to have written myself.

( Read the rest of this entry » )

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.