First I have to tell you that I read a lot. Mostly fiction and challenging fiction at that. Richard Yates was masterful. Some of the earliest crime writers, Mickey Spillane and Richard Stark are not necessarily challenging but very original nearly forcing reader to live in that period.
Andrew Klavan has written for quite some time and his first works are like nothing I've read before. Continuing through his current pieces and series with detours of nonfiction leave me with the sense of a writer bearing his and the soul of mankind as he matures into a man. Very unlike the authors that churn out the formulaic stuff of their boredom. I've skipped the young adult books.
So many others I won't get into...
Poe is one I need to get a good compilation of because I've never read a single one of his stories.
That leads me to this simple point:
I look forward to the finished work of the "abbreviated" piece that you posted. There are so many directions I can imagine it going.
First I have to tell you that I read a lot. Mostly fiction and challenging fiction at that. Richard Yates was masterful. Some of the earliest crime writers, Mickey Spillane and Richard Stark are not necessarily challenging but very original nearly forcing reader to live in that period.
Andrew Klavan has written for quite some time and his first works are like nothing I've read before. Continuing through his current pieces and series with detours of nonfiction leave me with the sense of a writer bearing his and the soul of mankind as he matures into a man. Very unlike the authors that churn out the formulaic stuff of their boredom. I've skipped the young adult books.
So many others I won't get into...
Poe is one I need to get a good compilation of because I've never read a single one of his stories.
That leads me to this simple point:
I look forward to the finished work of the "abbreviated" piece that you posted. There are so many directions I can imagine it going.