Illiterarty.com Book reviews and blogs by Bridget

If this was a car, it would be going cheap—a DeLorean someone died in. Pay cash, clean it yourself.

If this was a movie, it would be Harry Potter And The Logic Of The Diminishing Returns.

I wanted to get a couple of Stephen King’s under my belt, if only to review a run of the mill horror. I’m sure I read IT as a child. Anyway, he is apparently the master of the genre, even though there are some great contemporary authors who have learned from him and managed to produce some really original stuff.

They say that the first sentence of a novel is the most important; most people who pick a book up in a bookstore will head straight to the first page to see what the sentence is as a judgment of whether to read it or not. And I tell you, Chuck Palahniuk is the master of the first sentence. And paragraph, for that matter. You are completely sucked in before you know what’s what.