I love reading. I never knew a book could scare you. That was until I read Misery in an attic room and after I finished I freaked myself out thinking Annie was standing in the closet behind me waiting with an axe.
Stephen King knows how to put fear on a page. I can't put his novels down. Dean Koontz is another one I read alot of too.
My favorite novel is The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands. King wrote the Dark Tower series. It is in talks to become a film or tv series but no solid commitments yet. Most people describe this powerful story as "Lord of the rings meets a western." Tolkien was a huge influence on King when he wrote this story. It starts out simply with a gunslinger chasing an evil man through the desert. I can't even begin to describe some of the stuff the gunslinger encounters throughout this journey. You will find Orcs, Ents and Elves in Middle Earth but you won't find seventy foot robotic bears, robotic wolves, suicidal AI bullet trains, and vampires there. Even terrifying lobster creatures that crawl out of the ocean to snack on anything dumb enough to get too close. The director that steps up to take this challenge of film, will have his plate full, but I would love to see this story brought to life.
J.K. Rowling, James Patterson, Stephanie Meyers, Charlaine Harris, Ted Dekker, Rick Riordan are some other authors I read quite often.
