Tops on Mitch's Lit List...

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#1) The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. A seven book epic story written over the course of more than two decades. When I finish a book, either one I've read, or one I've written, I experience a sense of nostalgic loss, wishing the story of characters I loved could go on forever. This series is the closest experience toward that wish fulfillment I have ever encountered. How can I convey my feelings most adequately? If I was on my deathbed and could only reread one book (I'm being greedy and stalling for time; it is a seven book adventure) I would wish to have my previous memory of The Dark Tower Series erased so that I might reread this epic story with the freshness of first time experience once more.

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Number Two on Mitch's Lit List...

(first in the series pictured here)

#2) A Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin. A multibook dark fantasy epic, with several books still unwritten, creating an even deeper more multileveled fantasy world than Tolkien. In my own fantasy trilogy, Destiny's Circle, even though it is a young adult novel, it more closely emulates Martin's violent, merciless intensity than any other fantasy writer.

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Number 3 On Mitch's List of Five Fav Reads!

#3) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien succeeds as the creator of one of the most unique, complex worlds of a mythic fantasy. His writing has endured and still excels more than a half century later. I first read his trilogy, prefaced by The Hobbit, when I was eighteen, and this is another story I will keep rereading at least once a decade.

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Mitch Lits: Number 4 on his top 5 list!

#4) The Time Traveler's Wife byAudrey Niffenegger. A paranormal romance that succeeded big time as a bestselling mainstream novel. This is the book that I hope to emulate in my own fashion with Golden Eyebrows, my attempt at a mainstream thriller/paranormal romance, first draft of which I completed in November 2008 as my NaNoWriMo entry.

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