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Yeah what escape artist said. That's the case exactly.sephiRoth IRA posted:I'm not even sure in liking it but I cannot stop reading it. That's how I felt about it. I can't say I'll ever read it again, but it was certainly an unforgettable ride.
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Aug 6, 2023 19:55
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escape artist posted:Yes. The characters seem to be ignoring Lu's preferred pronouns throughout though Not all the time tho! I was just curious whether that had any significance. I'll keep going to the end. Would you recommend Yeagers other novels?
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Aug 6, 2023 20:48
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sephiRoth IRA posted:Not all the time tho! I was just curious whether that had any significance. I'll keep going to the end. Would you recommend Yeagers other novels? I think Amygdalatropolis might be my favorite, but Negative Space was my first at the thread recommendation and I really enjoyed it. I have yet to finish Burn You the gently caress Alive, but after I wrap up some other reading, I'll probably go back to it for a fresh start. To me, the novels feel like they have an "emptying" quality, if that makes any sense.
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Truly stunned by how much I loved Camp Damascus. Never really read any Chuck Tingle, but there's not a trace of irony or too-self aware jokes I expected. Its a completely sincere horror novel about a conversion camp. Character work is A+, the slowly unraveling mystery is stunningly well paced, the way the novel deftly danced between choosing what information is essential and what information is best left unresolved is just really smart for horror. One of its greatest strengths isn't even the horror elements itself, but the surreal terror of how casually some characters react to the horrors around the protagonist. "No, I think bugs spewing out of your mouth is normal, dear. Nature can be pretty weird!" My favorite passage, about mid-way through the book, was really when it hit me just how thoughtful and deliberate the whole story was in its just pure gay anger:  Just phenomenal horror, across the board.
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Aug 7, 2023 09:03
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Nerdietalk posted:Truly stunned by how much I loved Camp Damascus. Never really read any Chuck Tingle, but there's not a trace of irony or too-self aware jokes I expected. Its a completely sincere horror novel about a conversion camp. It's a good bit. Pounded in the butt by a good bit. I should finish it today and it's really, really good.
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I'm about 2/3 through a d really enjoying it. I love the clever trick he pulled with the pacing there MIDBOOK SPOILER I was mildly annoyed about how I was nearly halfway through and she hadn't gone to the camp yet, then the twist
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Aug 7, 2023 16:15
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Opopanax posted:I'm about 2/3 through a d really enjoying it. I love the clever trick he pulled with the pacing there MIDBOOK SPOILER I was mildly annoyed about how I was nearly halfway through and she hadn't gone to the camp yet, then the twist Had the exact same reaction. Was thinking about how long they were really delaying the titular camp and then it hits how long it’s been hovering over both Rose and the entire town. Truly gut punch moment.
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Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle is a very good book.
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Aug 7, 2023 18:08
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Matilda did the audio book? Okay.
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Aug 7, 2023 18:21
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Catriona Ward has a book that dropped today. Also Daniel Kraus' Whalefall is finally out today. I am listening to it now and... I am holding my thoughts for now.
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Aug 9, 2023 03:08
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got around to reading Between Two Fires and it lived up to its reputation, knockout hit of a pageturner horror novel though i do get tired of that stylistic quirk where the writer Breaks up every sentence. Into individual clauses. With their own lines. For emphasis. i thought it was mainly limited to stephen graham jones but apparently it's contagious
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Aug 11, 2023 03:08
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Oxxidation posted:got around to reading Between Two Fires and it lived up to its reputation, knockout hit of a pageturner horror novel That style of writing is what caused me to fall in love with James Elroy, but I also tend to think that it lends itself well to his subject matter.
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Oxxidation posted:
I can't stand that poo poo. After waiting years for someone to translate Anders Fager's Swedish Cults into English, I was mortified to find it's all like that, just continual sentence fragments with no subject or verb, not even for emphasis. I dunno if it's the translation or the author to blame but I gave up on it altogether midway through the second story as a result. I just find it infuriating and unreadable.
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Found a copy of Lovecraft Country in a little free library. So far it reads like a play report of someone's CoC game. The characters talk and act like modern people pretending to be characters from the 1950s. They even have an "investigator organization" that prompts them to go on adventures - a fictional version of the Negro Motorist's Green Book which sends them to check out locations and verify if they're safe for Black people on road trips. The whole thing feels oddly safe. There's no sense of peril because characters keep getting knocked unconscious or stunned by danger. I know that Matt Ruff is capable of writing horror, Bad Monkeys was far more effective at creating atmosphere and a feeling of dread.
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Aug 14, 2023 21:57
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New Nick Cutter book dropped! It's co-written by Andrew Sullivan, anyone read any of his stuff?
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Opopanax posted:New Nick Cutter book dropped! It's co-written by Andrew Sullivan, anyone read any of his stuff? Yup! I just finished The Handyman Method yesterday. It's really good, a neat take on a haunted house that has some vividly gross stuff that reminded me of the sort of golden age of 80s slimy wet puppet special effects. It also uses Youtube as a horror concept in a way that I really liked. Sullivan's other book that came out this year, The Marigold, I would also highly recommend. It's horror about a near-future Toronto that's literally rotting into the ground in large part thanks to corrupt building management/builders, and imo, manages to pull off having a lot of POV characters really well.
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The Marigold was excellent. I wasn’t crazy about the one Nick Cutter book I read (The Troop) but might check out that new one since it’s got Sullivan co-writing.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:The Marigold was excellent. Fwiw I did not like The Troop at all but have liked other Cutter stuff, so depending on what turned you off about The Troop you might still like his other stuff. He always goes kind of hard in gross-out horror elements I think, but The Troop is probably one of the most extreme, and I felt like there wasn't a ton else going on in it.
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MockingQuantum posted:Fwiw I did not like The Troop at all but have liked other Cutter stuff, so depending on what turned you off about The Troop you might still like his other stuff. He always goes kind of hard in gross-out horror elements I think, but The Troop is probably one of the most extreme, and I felt like there wasn't a ton else going on in it. Eh, I'd say The Deep and Little Heaven are grosser
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Opopanax posted:Eh, I'd say The Deep and Little Heaven are grosser i thought Little Heaven was pretty subdued compared to The Deep and The Troop, honestly. less gore and more sort of King-esque drama
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I thought Little Heaven was a pleasant change from The Troop and The Deep. I really like all three books, but The Troop and The Deep are really loving mean. They both have some passages that almost demand skipping on principle. Little Heaven has a bit more hope and redemption in it. All worth a read if you like any one of them, imo.
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Aug 21, 2023 07:00
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I dropped the The Troop about halfway through the book, not because it was too gory (honestly the gore that was there all felt pretty much B-Movie cheap to me) but because the boys were just uninteresting stock characters. Unless he massively pulled it out the bag in the later chapters or the gore ramped up beyond some gross worms and eating gross stuff I don't understanding it's reputation at all.
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I didn't know The Troop had a reputation at all. Around the time it was published I picked it up at random, thought it was ok I guess, and never thought about it again until now. I didn't know anyone else had even read it
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I think it’s just that for body and parasite horror specifically, people have wildly different tolerances than with other forms of horror. Some people find it especially disturbing and hard to read. I wasn’t that put off by Troop but I get it
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It's probably my least favorite Cutter but it's still good. Not like, genre defining or anything but a good weekend read. I read it while camping with my kid so that probably helped
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Aug 21, 2023 18:36
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R.L. Stine posted:I didn't know The Troop had a reputation at all. I first heard of it, and decided to check it out, because I saw it back to back on a couple of "Best Of" list, so maybe I just thought it was more popular than it is.
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I enjoyed The Troop a lot, but now thinking back on it I honestly can't remember why I liked it so much. I also read The Deep and found that one to be a dud, and that's on a number of "scariest book ever!!" lists, so 
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It's funny how apparently no-one has ever read The Acolyte
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I liked The Deep because “haunted house at the bottom of the ocean” is a fun premise, to me. I did not like it as much as The Troop, it’s pretty nihilistic and cruel, so much so that it just starts to feel exhausting.
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Opopanax posted:It's funny how apparently no one has ever read The Acolyte It was hard to find by the time Nick's popularity increased enough to have people digging into his back catalog. I am kind of surprised another publisher hasn't picked it up.
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Ornamented Death posted:It was hard to find by the time Nick's popularity increased enough to have people digging into his back catalog. I have it, just haven't gotten to it. Maybe I'll read it next
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I quite liked The Acolyte, but it's not much of a horror novel
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Read through The Handyman Method, by Nick Cutter and Andrew F Sullivan pretty quickly. It’s a little spooky, and at times pretty funny. It has a lot of Cutter’s motifs and language mannerisms, and I think it benefits from having a co-author bringing another perspective. Spoilers: Cutter calls himself out with The Shining influences, but it’s still pretty funny to replace Delbert Grady with a YouTube handyman. I really liked that Trent is a ritual offering, but I could have done with some more inner conflict from Rita. It’s a bit hard to believe she wouldn’t know what was happening to her son, and if she felt helpless or trapped or guilty by that, we didn’t get much until the end. I know they have to keep the lid on that for as long as possible, but it ends up leaving her less explored than I would have liked. Still, a pretty neat idea, with some memorable moments. Did they really have to brutally kill another animal? That’s starting to annoy me with Cutter’s writing. “Let’s dig a hole in the basement, dumbshit!!”
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Hey, are y'all familiar with the World of Darkness series of roleplaying games? I’m curious to read some stuff that inspired that whole thing. Vampire: The Masquerade owes a ton to Anne Rice and Salem’s Lot of course, but are there similar inspirations to Mage or Werewolf? The games came out in the early 90’s, so Jim Butcher is out.
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It absolutely was not a World of Darkness inspiration but I really like THE DEVOURERS by Indrapramit Das, an Indian werewolf novel. CW for sexual assault and lots of piss.
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I just read C.L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry stories and was wondering if there's other good sword & sorcery/dark fantasy with a similar vibe to "Black God's Kiss" or especially "Hellsgarde." They were both excellent stories but the horror atmosphere in "Hellsgarde" was just outstanding. I've already read all of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, Between Two Fires, etc.
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Siivola posted:Hey, are y'all familiar with the World of Darkness series of roleplaying games? I’m curious to read some stuff that inspired that whole thing. Vampire: The Masquerade owes a ton to Anne Rice and Salem’s Lot of course, but are there similar inspirations to Mage or Werewolf? Nancy A Collins' Sonja Blue is one of those vampire influences you're skipping. Dropped in '89 and weird as hell.
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Finished Experimental Film. I know it's a thread favourite but I feel a bit mixed on it. It felt like most of it was just waiting for something to happen, but at the same time it was so well written that I didn't mind the slowness so much. I also grew up with two autistic brothers and still live with/am a caretaker for one, so I probably got more out of the family dynamic stuff than most would. Only real complaint was that they seemed to jump from Real World to Lady Midday is real and we have to stop her really quickly, that part didn't feel super earned.
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