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From the time I was a young kid, I found myself drawn to Stephen King's uncanny ability to blend the ordinary with the extraordinarily eerie. Whether it was a possessed pet cemetery or a malevolent presence lurking in a hotel, King's novels has a masterful grasp of mingling the believable with the supernatural that made me devour King's memoir.

https://www.bookishelf.com/on-writing-a-memoir-of-the-craft-by-stephen-king/

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The Martian | Andy Weir
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The sheer amount of knowledge that went into writing this book, as well as the level of brainpower, is mind-boggling to me. The technology is either real or extremely realistic; if there are scientific or factual errors, it's far beyond me to suss them out. And on top of that, to make the story fascinating, and to include quite a lot of humor to leaven it all, is quite an achievement.

julesG Good review. Mirrors my thoughts. I read somewhere that Weir asked NASA for help with some of the scientific and technical facts but they didn't help and he had to find out by himself. I admire the research stamina. 4y
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