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	Name: Robert Luedke
	City & State: Dallas, Texas
	Vocation / Avocation: Author & illustrator

Why I'm a Habitual Reader:

I started reading comic books at the age of 9, and it hooked me on a life-long reading habit that includes: Novels, historical fiction, biographies, graphic novels...not to mention a handful of periodicals each month.

I really enjoy political/spy fiction the most, but also have spent considerable time with sci-fi and horror during different seasons of my life.

My List of Ten: Thrillers that keep you riveted to your chair

1. The Stand
Author: Stephen King
My favorite Stephen King thriller-horror epic...that predicted the AIDS epidemic a decade before its time.

2. The Terminal Man
Author: Michael Crichton
My first venture into a medical thriller...you know how we remember our first anything!

3. A Clear and Present Danger
Author: Tom Clancy
My favorite of Clancy's Jack Ryan books, (though it's much more of a John Clark story...even though he only played a minor part in the movie adaptation).

4. The Hunt for Red October
Author: Tom Clancy
The book where I discovered Clancy and became enamored by his style of mixing technological jargon within the narrative and still keeping it interesting. Got me hooked on political/military/spy thrillers.

5. Jaws
Author: Peter Benchley
Long before the movie, there was the book. I was the person responsible for turning on a whole high school to this eerie tale. I gave it to my girlfriend, who gave it to her friend, etc...I didn't get the book back for almost 5 months.

6. They Thirst
Author: Robert McCammon
Wonderful blending of a thriller with vampires all set in contemporary LA...for me, predated my discovery of Anne Rice's vampire trilogy.

7. The Jesus Factor
Author: Edwin Corley
From the writer of Seige, Military/historical based thriller, that asks the question...what if the first Atomic bombs didn't really work?

8. Pet Sematary
Author: Stephen King
As eerie as it gets! Who hasn't had a pet that died, that you didn't wish you could bring back?

9. Misery
Author: Stephen King
This is one of the best can't-put-it-down-for-a-second thrillers that King produced. The movie adapt., though done very well, just didn't capture the full terror of the situation.

10. Interview with the Vampire
Author: Anne Rice
Vampires done elegantly, terror, historical settings...what more can I say?

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