i was only born in
'87 so my life has pretty much just begun, seeing as my memory only reaches back about 5 years when important and interesting things started happening.
I was hooked on goosebumps, point horror and lots of fantasy novels when I was a kid. my sisters thought i was wierd because I loved reading so much and i would go mental at cracked spines/bent covers (i'm over that now though).
Lots of books have made me ponder religion, think about philosophy and marvel that the world could either be millions of years old or just 6000 years old. I'm going with millions. Makes sense, right?

But, dear reader, the one book that has made me go, 'oh my science, this is the awesomest thing I've ever read' is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
'Reader, I married him' is the only line from a book that has ever stuck in my head. I had tears in my eyes and grinned like a fool in the orchard scene. I'm waiting another 6 months so I can forget it and then read it all over again.

Bret Easton Ellis makes me LOL.
(saf, Fri 16 May 2008, 1:23, 1 reply)

Point horror:
The point horror books were ace, but aimed at teenagers.

If you want the same mix of horror, gore, ridiculous plots and graphic sexual liaisons, try ANYTHING by the late, great Richard Laymon.

His "funhouse" includes one of the best written accounts of the embarassments of teenage love I've ever read, and also a clown with a machete.

I can't recommend them enough. If you like pulp horror, he was the king.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:34, closed)