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Post by Jabberbot on Nov 15, 2022 22:32:18 GMT -5
My FAVORITES this year were 'The Troop' by Nick Cutter and 'A Head Full of Ghosts' by Paul Tremblay. There's gonna be a movie of 'The Troop' which I am SUPER excited to see! Anyone else love to read horror?
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Post by withswords on Nov 15, 2022 23:14:23 GMT -5
oo i haven't heard about the troop before, what was it that made these two stand out?
i haven't been reading as much as i like to because i usually have to choose between whether i want to read or write in a given day aksdjfkld but lately i've been working my way through american psycho! compelling read if only because it seems like a puzzle piece adding context to a lot of other horror that came after it. i saw the movie in high school and it's a very different experience than reading the book now being the same age as bateman.
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Post by wormsday on Nov 16, 2022 2:29:25 GMT -5
i want to get into reading like Book Books more, ive kept trying this year and just not having it stick ; x ; omg i recognize paul tremblay's name! ive yet to read anything by him but he won the bram stroker award for the cabin at the end of the world!
omg jonah, having that sort of read like, being able to compare how you felt then with it with how you feel now
i Have recently finished nanquest, if that counts as reading in this thread! im so in my just want to read comics and visual novels and interactive fiction era, but i am also reading like penpal for the podcast me and jonah do!
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Post by proceduralbob on Nov 16, 2022 3:47:14 GMT -5
I read voraciously and I’m not picky about what I read so a lot of it is bad.
My most recent horror reads have been Family Business by Jonathan Sims (the guy behind The Magnus Archives), Night Shift by Stephen King (the short story collection — I’m going to level with you and say I think most of the stories aren’t his best work but there’s definitely a few worth reading) and I’m currently reading Devolution by Max Brooks and loving it. I’m not sure Devolution is exactly horror but it’s def horror adjacent.
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Post by Jabberbot on Nov 16, 2022 13:23:28 GMT -5
oo i haven't heard about the troop before, what was it that made these two stand out? i haven't been reading as much as i like to because i usually have to choose between whether i want to read or write in a given day aksdjfkld but lately i've been working my way through american psycho! compelling read if only because it seems like a puzzle piece adding context to a lot of other horror that came after it. i saw the movie in high school and it's a very different experience than reading the book now being the same age as bateman. The Troop is a body-horror story about a boy scout troop! I read it at the very beginning of covid coming to the states so the horror might have been highlighted A Head Full of Ghosts I also read while recovering from a brain injury. The circumstances around my reading both those books really cemented them as my favorites.
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Post by tempest on Nov 16, 2022 14:53:09 GMT -5
I finally got the third Southern Reach book out of the library and just... haven't started it yet lmao but I will! I know from the first two that I'll put it off and put it off and then when I start it it will completely devour me and leave me a changed person, so I'm waiting for when I have time for all that. I'm also justifying it by saying I'm contributing to the local library in the form of exorbitant late fees
The whole series is COMPLETELY up my alley in terms of like. Bizarro environmental stuff that is just so heavy with Meaning. Hugely recommended. I'm going to try to read more of VanderMeer's stuff after this
Ooooh The Troop sounds REALLY fun... I do love a body horror
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Post by proceduralbob on Nov 16, 2022 16:36:41 GMT -5
I liked Acceptance a lot more than Authority if that helps at all. I'm really keen to see what you think!
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Post by loserdyke on Nov 25, 2022 18:00:04 GMT -5
oo i haven't heard about the troop before, what was it that made these two stand out? i haven't been reading as much as i like to because i usually have to choose between whether i want to read or write in a given day aksdjfkld but lately i've been working my way through american psycho! compelling read if only because it seems like a puzzle piece adding context to a lot of other horror that came after it. i saw the movie in high school and it's a very different experience than reading the book now being the same age as bateman. american psycho is a great book but it’s almost like eating your veggies, you know? it’s not pleasant but it makes you big and strong. i read it pretty young and it was thrilling but i preferred less than zero once i read more bret easton ellis. i recently read about how ellis wrote patrick bateman as directly inspired by his own father and that is very interesting to me so if i ever did a reread it would definitely be in that lens. however, i’ll probably never read american psycho again just because of the yuck factor but i’m very glad i’ve read it once. the movie on the other hand is a common rewatch for me. the cast is stacked, the acting is brilliant, and i think it’s a more efficient way to get at the ideas and themes of the novel. something that i do think is important for my experience with the novel that the movie doesn’t get at in the same way is how boring bateman is. when he’s not doing gross horrible shit or thinking about gross horrible shit hes just like listing every brand name he can see. he is so profoundly miserable and empty and the movie just doesn’t have the time and space to fully get at that.
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Post by withswords on Nov 27, 2022 10:10:48 GMT -5
american psycho is a great book but it’s almost like eating your veggies, you know? it’s not pleasant but it makes you big and strong. i read it pretty young and it was thrilling but i preferred less than zero once i read more bret easton ellis. i totally get you, my developmental nasty book was a clockwork orange which inspired me to get into linguistics! i recently read about how ellis wrote patrick bateman as directly inspired by his own father and that is very interesting to me so if i ever did a reread it would definitely be in that lens. however, i’ll probably never read american psycho again just because of the yuck factor but i’m very glad i’ve read it once. it's so funny though, i was just talking about this with proceduralbob (when the topic of bateman's sexuality came up because one of the other things the movie kind of elides is how fucking closeted he is, which brought up ellis's sexuality and his varying comments about it over the years), and apparently he said in a later interview that he'd lied about basing bateman on his father because he was actually based on himself and the kind of person he was at that age and time because he couldn't handle being perceived that way. now this might also be a lie because he seems really delighted to make things up in interviews but that in itself i think is a fun context for that story
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Post by proceduralbob on Nov 27, 2022 16:58:08 GMT -5
I have a bit of a storied history with American Psycho. I had a high shool friend (well, a friend's boyfriend) who LARPed Patrick Bateman. I am constantly fascinated and delighted that Bret Easton Ellis has never given the same answer twice in a row in an interview about anything. I read the book several years ago, having purchased it while on "schoolies" (Australian for spring break, broadly speaking) and parts of it seeped deep into my bone structure. I also went to see American Psycho the musical at the Sydney Opera House a couple years ago and came up with almost four things that I liked about it.
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