“Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.”
And this opening paragraph is just stunning:
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
In seriousness, I would be interested in hearing from someone who highly rates Something Happened, simply because - as much as I respect it - I think it’s definitely partly to blame for me feeling very very bad about the world for about a year
Catch 22 is obviously an incredible piece of work but I’ve also read Good as Gold and Something Happened and fuck me are those boring books, so I can only assume people are largely voting on Catch 22 alone.
People always assume I’m a huge Gaiman fan for some reason. I do want to read Sandman at some point, though. I’ve only read Norse Mythology by him so far, but I thought he made it all sound almost boring.
Okay, I have a confession…on my spreadsheet I didn’t use the first column…which meant I have only counted 99 writers. To fix this…we will now drop from No. 16 to 14…and the real No. 100 who originally missed out is…
