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I recently finished Thomas Olde Huevelt's Echo and did not enjoy it! Too much fricken mountain talk Currently about half way into Crouch's Dark Matter and it is getting reaaaal good
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Lol I was reading superlative reviews for Dark Matter and may have picked up the wrong one - I'm enjoying Crouch's so far in any case
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rowkey bilbao posted:Just finished David's Sodergren The Haar. [/spoiler] Really liked this one, too! The creature is great. Not so great, I'm reading Max Brook's Devolution. I'm about 5 or so chapters in, does this get better? The main character sucks, the eco village stuff is really thin, and the interstitial stuff pretty uninteresting.
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MockingQuantum posted:
Last Days was good and scary. Reddening kinda sucked IMO and I have not read the Ritual yet but the movie was solid.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Library at Mt Char. Library at Mount Char loving RULED hell yeah
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I read Hyperion by Simmons, loved it (and I'd also recommend it for horror fans despite it being a bit more a mix of genres) then found out more about the guy and haven't really bothered with anything else of his. The Terror TV show was sick tho
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Aug 7, 2024 14:26
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hmm I was correct not to continue with that one, I think Reading You Like it Darker - first three stories are meh but I just finished Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream. Very solid, classic King that reminded me of Bag of Bones for some reason.
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Aug 27, 2024 16:03
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alf_pogs posted:the dark tower, rules and I was late picking it up despite reading a lot of King. super recommend it, even if some of the later books aren't quite as good as the first 1-4 Also I just finished Dark Harvest by Norman Patridge. Liked it! Kinda reminded me of The Lottery but the prose is unique and I think it is saying something about being trapped in systems not of your own making, the sins of our fathers etc.
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Oct 3, 2024 17:41
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Finished Evenson's Last Days a day ago. Pretty cool premise and it was a page-turner, but I wasn't as impressed as others have been. I'm currently reading Tiger by John Vaillant, a non-fiction account of amur tigers and just how deadly and dangerous they are in Russia's far east (and also how the Russian Empire, then the USSR and its collapse have contributed to the relationship between people and animals in that geographic area). Liking it a lot and it'll definitely horrify ya if you're spooked at all by the idea of a large animal stalking and murdering you.
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Oct 9, 2024 18:47
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I'll post in here and also in the Stephen King thread in TBB, but I am reading King's Duma Key, a novel I hadn't heard anything about but am so far really enjoying - it's a very solid post-Dark Tower King, not set in Maine, starring a main character who so far does not have an age-inappropriate relationship with a woman. Spooky Florida happenings mixed with King's telepath/shining themes.
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Oct 17, 2024 17:55
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Pet Semetary is probably one of his scariest books but not because of the supernatural elements (which I liked are cool). He has some others that are solid without explicit supernatural stuff, e.g. Cujo, The Long Walk, that you might like too
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Nov 1, 2024 18:41
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Authority rocks and is this super specific vibe of overextended, crumbling, but also powerful and esoteric bureaucracy trying to make sense of an alien other that is even more opaque than itself I wish there were more books or things like it, but Control is really the only other piece of media I've stumbled across hits that spot imo (please prove me wrong)
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Jan 23, 2025 15:57
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hopterque posted:"There Is No Antimemetics Division" by Sam Hughes (aka Qntm) oh for sure, should have mentioned this. I've got that in paperback waiting for me to finish a backlog of other stuff
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Jan 24, 2025 15:11
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I finished Absolution last night. Great body horror and some unsettling stuff with Ol' Jim and Central. Didn't love that third act with Lowry as the main character, and at times Vandermeer's prose is so impressionistic that it's really not clear what has happened (but at least the vibe is clear). Solid followup to the SR trilogy, imo, and I liked this a lot more than Dead Astronauts.
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Feb 6, 2025 15:13
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I wish I had done this sooner, but I'm starting an excel doc to keep notes on the books I'm reading with a #/5 system and notes. Just finished The Shaft recently (thanks for this rec, thread, it was loving disgusting and cool) and am reading The Raw Shark Texts now and really liking it.
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Mar 28, 2025 18:14
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sephiRoth IRA posted:Just finished IT for the first time this week. My wife and I took turns reading it aloud to each other, which was fun. FYI I'm not going to spoiling any of this. If you miraculously have not heard of or consumed any sort of IT-related media and know nothing about it, I give the book an average of 2.5/5, with it being 5 in some spots and 1 in others. It's a looooong book. I'm just cracking this open so I'm not going to read your post, but I will check back in in a couple weeks (I'm slow) with my own thoughts
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In case you all haven't checked it out, the King thread is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3130206 The Dark Tower series is great, even if Song of Susannah isn't, it rewards having read a lot of his other stuff but is really just excellent, an incredible achievement taken altogether. I'll echo everyone saying Salem's Lot, Tommyknockers, and Pet Semetary, while also adding that From a Buick 8 is overlooked and cool, and Under the Dome and the first third of The Stand are also excellent. He's got some misses across the huge body of work, but honestly the more of him I read, despite a lot of the warts in his early work (and the recent stuff with Holly in it), the more I like his stuff.
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Aug 1, 2025 15:20
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In to the Drowning Deep, about mermaids, was pretty cool I thought! A bit gory but the slow build toward the obvious carnage is also quite good and the monsters are well-realized. There's also a prequel, apparently.
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Aug 20, 2025 13:35
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Paddyo posted:I loved Between Two Fires, so I picked up The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman after seeing a recommendation on Reddit. The setting and characters were all really engaging, and once the main plot developed and started taking off I couldn't put it down. It has this great feeling of desperation and momentum that really keeps you engaged and on the edge of your seat. The problem is the ending. You can see the set up coming for a really interesting endgame that builds upon themes and background characters that have been introduced earlier in the story. But once it gets to the point where you would expect the climax to fall together it totally fizzles out, and there is a coda that basically kicks you in the dick and laughs at you for getting invested. I love a good twist, but this one undermines the whole story. 95% of it is great, but the last 5% kind of ruined the experience for me. Not sure if it was recommended or discussed in here or in the SF&F book thread, but Buehlman's Blacktongue Thief is, while not a horror, a pretty neat little fantasy story, and the Daughter's War, which I'm reading now, is in the same universe. Unique worldbuilding, with an emphasis on language and magic systems and guilds. If anyone's into that sort of thing I think they're pretty strong. I'll check out Lesser Dead at some point too, thanks for mentioning it.
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Sep 30, 2025 01:03
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Yeah there's definitely some body horror in Blacktongue but it does read a little YA-ish, the main character's internal monologue is pretty glib and quippy.
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Sep 30, 2025 13:15
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I think what I liked most about Pet Sematary was the hinting at an ancient evil in the Maine woods, some sort of shumbling giant presence as the protagonist heads beyond the deadfall. It reminds me of the monster (?) in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which is an underrated King IMO. I don't think I'll read the book again, now that I have two young sons and I live near a busy road but I think it deserves the reputation it has as one of King's best
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Fallom posted:To the author's credit he drops the cheap animal torture bit for The Queen, a book that surprisingly ends up coming off kinda sweet Oh, didn't know he had come out with something semi recently! I liked The Troop and The Deep, didn't love Little Heaven as much at first.
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