What were your favourite books at different stages in your life?

There’s gonna be some typos in this post because I am blind and posting this via speech to text. All of this is from before I went blind, maybe up until the final book since I only recently went blind.

As a child in the early 80s, it was Charlie and the chocolate factory.

Around that same time maybe a year or two later, it was encyclopedia Brown novels because I enjoyed the little mysteries. And also Indian in the cupboard. And James and the giant peach.

The few years that I did not read much because of a change in family situations, but I picked up reading again in junior high school, which would’ve been 1986 to 88. And during that timeframe, I have been introduced to Edgar Allan Poe and his stories were my favorite. I had always liked the classic twilight zone television show, which were very strange with a philosophical bent on many of the episodes. And Edgar and Poe Fell into that category for me with the strangeness in the spookiness. And the real dark present presented

In high school I first discovered Stephen King. And my first book from him was the book Tommyknockers. I know many people to ride that book and I haven’t read it since about 1988 or 89, but I was riveted. It really held me, and I was so completely amazed that this story talked about a full on flying saucer, being Excavated in the forest in Maine I didn’t know anything about Maine because I am from the West Coast but everything I didn’t know about it. I learned through Stephen King books after that fact. And the one and only thing I do remember thinking was flat out Book was at some point in the book. There was some older guy driving down the road, and suddenly he gets his period. And I couldn’t understand how a guy could experience menstruation. I just felt stupid to me in ways that I was too naïve to put together that maybe the rest of the book wasn’t quite up to par the King‘s best because I hadn’t read anything else by king. But by the end of the story bodies transform into aliens themselves, I just could never get past them menstruation of the guy.

Shortly after high school, my favorite book was the Bachman books again by Stephen King using his alternate name that he had in the 80s. But in particular, my favorite story among them was the dark half. It was jaw, dropping terrifying to me to read about finding teeth and fingernails and hair in a person’s brain And all of that I don’t wanna spoil too much more because I think that’s revealed pretty early on but I don’t remember cause I’ve read the long time ago but suffice to say that was an amazing book. Was dead.

In the mid 90s, I was introduced to dungeons and dragons and along with that the friends who introduced me to it also introduced me to fantasy books. Your particular forgotten realms books and things like that. And among the books, I read that they lent to me I bought myself a series of books called the death cycle. It was by a couple authors that I guess wrote a bunch of DND books, but this was like a whole different world with a whole different story. Was riveted to every single one of those in the very mid 90s.

In the late 90s, I read the first four books, which were the only four books available, and Stephen King‘s dark Tower series. The first three just got better and better and I found intriguing and amazing. The fourth one I hated. I hate it to this day. I just loved it. But apparently I have an opinion that is not shared by everybody else because most people seem to love it and they seem to like it more than any other book and that particular series, but I don’t care. I hated it.

In the late 90s, I was looking for a new fantasy books and I happen to be at a supermarket and on the shelf at the checkout register was a book by an author I had never heard of before. And the book turned out to be the very first book in the Game of Thrones series. Talk about riveted. I have no complaints about that book except for one. Oh my God, do I hate cliffhanger and with all these characters and stories, the book was one giant cliffhanger. When the first sequel came out a couple years later, I snatched it right up and I waited to get all the answers I’ve been waiting for and while I got them, it turns out that the story was nowhere near finished because all it did was create more cliffhanger. So I decided that that point at the turn of the century really early early early 2000s That I would simply wait until he finishes the series before I buy the next book. That was 24 years ago. Still waiting. But it does not diminish how much I enjoyed those first two books.

My next book I started reading on the day it was released in the early 2000s maybe it was around 2006 or seven, and that would be DUMA key by Stephen King. I still love that book to this day and it’s the favorite full marvel that of his that he’s released Since the return of the century. And I’ve kept up with him and I’ve also purchased all of his short story books because I love his short stories a ton. I actually like them more than a lot of his other novels released since 2000 but do McKee stand out because that one is just wonderful for me.

But since 2007 or so, I haven’t found a book that has riveted me quite as much as a lot of the earlier books through my life. I keep reading and I keep enjoying them, but maybe I’m too much of a pretentious bastard now for my own good, but all of them just failed to achieve What I experienced over the years. I know there’s good books out there and I know I’ve read them and I have enjoyed them and although I’m all I’m doing is choosing my favorite than the best I have. But if I had to choose one it would be a recent read of mine. And that would be Blind site by Peter Watts. Hard science fiction, a genre that I also love.

Oh yes, and finally a couple years before I read blind site I was also given a copy of the book the Martian by Peter Weir. I absolutely loved that book and had many good ideas in it, and I really loved the aspect of the stranded astronaut utilizing spoilers Accomplish a certain very important task. And because I’m doing this voice to text, I will not be able to insert actual spoilers to say and talking about. I’ll leave that up to the imagination because I’m not able to use the spoiler tag.

OK now it’s time to see if this post is gonna error out for having too many characters. Because boy I did talk a lot.