Author: Justin Blazier

I thought it would be neat to turn last week’s topic around a bit. Instead of talking about the authors for whom we have read every scrap they’ve ever written, how about those highly acclaimed behemoths that everyone loves, and you’ve yet to investigate?

I’ll go first: I have never cracked open a novel by China Miéville. Shame on me, I know. I have also never read a single word of Erikson, Eddings, Modesitt, Jordan, McCaffrey,

There has not been a scrap of paper that Jim Butcher has published that I have not read. Joe Abercrombie has never inked a published word that has not crossed my eyes. Those are just a couple of authors for whom I consider myself a completist. There is nothing they could publish that I would not make the effort to read as soon as possible.

Do you have any authors like that? Tell me about the authors whose every word you will consume.

Fantasy fans tend to be quite capable of immersing themselves in whatever it is that they enjoy. Most of the time that’s a book. However, many of us that delve into other genre-related hobbies. For instance, I’ve recently started getting into miniature wargames, like Warmachine. Others may be RPG players, quilters, convention attenders, painters, or maybe just collectors of fantasy related items. Whatever it is you do as a fantasy hobby, I’d like to hear about it.

The nerdier the better. I want links to your blog that hosts archives of your dragon salt and pepper shaker collection.

As you may have guessed by the title of today’s article, I want to know about really scary books. I debated with myself on when I should post my Halloween topic. I decided to post it now because I thought you might want to actually read some of the scary books mentioned while the Halloween season is still going on, rather than after it ends.

I’ll start by mentioning a book I just recently read called Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs. This book gave me a serious case of the heebie jeebies.

Today’s topic is for all the page benders, cover creasers, dog earers, and even the “books as a drink coaster” people. It’s time for the book abusers to come clean and confess their destructive natures. I’ll start first by outing my family. My mother, bless her, is pure evil to paperbacks. She’ll be engrossed in a novel and the front cover will slowly get rolled around behind. It obliterates the spine,and after one reading the pages are nearly unglued, and the book will never fully shut.

I’m pretty darn careful with my books. I abhor loose pages and creased covers.