Why Books Are Better

[Muscle Car Lover]

Sometimes reading a new writer or book, there is something that just jumps out at you as classic. Many of my books have dog ears for these sections. I am almost done Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" and it is great. This section stood out for some reason:

"Beyond that, he was numb; heart-numb, mind-numb, soul-numb. And the numbness, he realized, went a long way down, and a long way back."

[Muscle Car Lover]

From Joe Dever and John Grant's "Legends of Lone Wolf" novel "The Sword of the Sun":
"And then the first fire of sun rose above the far horizon. A single shaft of dawn light came across the sea.
Lone Wolf stood, the Sommerswerd still stretched out towards the huge red tent.
The shaft of light touched the very tip of the sword.
Both Lone Wolf and the Sommerswerd became a statue carved out of incandescent white light.....
A thrust of lightning sprang from the Sommersword to the Darklord's tent. Thunder shattered the air. The tent vanished, and in it's place there was a great column of fire, expanding heavenwards.
All of the world seemed to howl with the anguish of Zagarna's death.....
And then there was rain - warm, gentle rain.
Lone Wolf sheathed the Sommerswerd, its light now only a subdued red glow, and cupped his hands to the rain.
He tasted the water once, and then again.
And then he fell."