When I first read Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson, I was surprised by how enthralled I became with such a dark and mysterious plot. That book opened up a new world of thriller books, and with reading new literature came expanding my author selections to the point that Marc Olden, Dean Koontz, and even Stephen King novels piqued my interest. Stephen King in particular shifted my attention from the thriller genre to the horror genre. As King was one of my late father’s absolute favorite authors (seriously, he had a bookshelf of Stephen King books), I decided to read It. That was the first book to make me cringe, gag, cry and quite literally drop the book in surprise. I feel that It changed me in that I now enjoy reading books that may seem morally compromised in its attempt to shock the reader because there is often a universal message hidden in horror novel’s gory extremism that I love to
When I first read Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson, I was surprised by how enthralled I became with such a dark and mysterious plot. That book opened up a new world of thriller books, and with reading new literature came expanding my author selections to the point that Marc Olden, Dean Koontz, and even Stephen King novels piqued my interest. Stephen King in particular shifted my attention from the thriller genre to the horror genre. As King was one of my late father’s absolute favorite authors (seriously, he had a bookshelf of Stephen King books), I decided to read It. That was the first book to make me cringe, gag, cry and quite literally drop the book in surprise. I feel that It changed me in that I now enjoy reading books that may seem morally compromised in its attempt to shock the reader because there is often a universal message hidden in horror novel’s gory extremism that I love to