A review by kt677
The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson

adventurous dark funny mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

This was my first novel of his, and I have to say I quite enjoyed this. I also have to credit him as an immensely creative person, if all of these short story were originally his idea. If you read this book, you feel like you have heard or know about at least one of them or the concept. Maybe they were depicted in movies or books or similar. If all of these stories were originally his, because I'm not fully sure of that, then I have to give a huge credit to him to partially form the film and book industry today. The only thing I can really complain about as someone whose first language is not English, this book was a challenge. The writing style was... weird. Even though the sentence structure was pretty easy to understand, and the vocabulary was not entirely from another platen (haha get it?) it was still hard to wrap my head around. I had to read a sentence twice, sometimes three times, to unterstand. It seemed to me, that RM used an unnecessary complex sentence to describe something very simple, and if your native tongue is not English, you want to bang your head on the table at first. But for all my not native English-speaking people out there, don't worry you'll get into it, maybe take a break if you need to.