It makes me mad that so many people read that book. It was so worthless and we all wasted our time on it.

The Shining. I was probably 14 and my parents didn't really want me to read it, so I'd read it in the basement, so I had enough reaction time if they came down the stairs. I remember sitting there reading it in silence and the phone rang and I jumped. We had one of those rotary dial phones that had an actual bell in it when it rang. It was right next to me and scared the crap outta me.

Clive Barker "The great and secret show" not so much scary as distrubing as an author he's very weird