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Tomie is an entity in the form of a beautiful woman, who destroys the life of innocent strangers just because she can.
No matter how many times you kill her she will spawn right back.
This is a pretty gigantic book in the form of short stories and it was really fun to read about.
Also it's really cool that you can see Junji Ito's art style evolving as you read more and more.
This is just one of the most beautiful books ever written.
It's amazing how the characters are so far away from our world yet so relatable. Patroclus paints such a real portrait of not fitting into society and finding his own footing. Achilles's character talks about the implications of pride, ego and the extent of honour.
Together they depict such a heartbreakingly beautiful love story.
I don't know anything about Greek mythology, but having read this and then doing some research, I feel like I have connected with this story and it's so accessible.
This is a book that I know will not leave me for a long time.
Disappointed.
I was looking for a sad book, but the sad part doesn't happen untill the very last 3 chapters or so and it was very,very rushed and sloppy.
The rest of the book was a set up. I feel like I barely got to know Finny.
I can't count how many times I come back to this series and it makes my day, and I can't wipe the stupid grin off my face if I wanted to <3
This book is just wrongly marketed, I think.
I was promised gay conversion camp horror but i feel like i ended up getting an R L Stine-esque YA horror.
The characters arent even teenagers but they felt like a group of teenagers trying to save the world, which isn't a bad thing but just isn't the kind of book I read anymore.
Also it was very mild on the horror, mainly relying on supernatural and paranormal kind of horror which again is not the kind of book I would pick up.
Just, not my thing.
My brain, wow, i can't take this.
It's so beautiful.
This definitely isn't conventional horror, and it's not for everyone. This reminded me of Bunny by Mona Awad. This melted my brain in a similar way that that book did.
I love books like this, and although I am confused and i don't really know what exactly happened, I enjoyed this book. What an experience.
Taken from someone else's review on Amazon -
Imagine you're doing a 5,000-piece puzzle, and you think you're nearing the end, but then you realize you're missing a few pieces. Then you somehow find the missing pieces, put them in their places, and think, “I figured it out!” but then you look at the puzzle, and you're like, “what the heck is this supposed to be?” It's only then that you realize you've been putting the puzzle together upside down. That was what the journey of reading Looking Glass Sound was like.
I was really intrigued by the premise of this book, three girls who gets hurt in the woods, put a man behind bars, but then they were actually lying??
And also i personally love stories set in the woods, and small town murder mysteries.
I feel like the story dragged on for wayyy too long, and I lost count of how many times Naomi keeps saying “oh my god, I put the wrong man behind bars, I destroyed his life, i regret it so much”. It got so repetitive.
The story actually picks up at around 75% and from then on it was really fun to uncover all the secrets.
I don't get the biblical references, that's probably why i didn't like it much. Still a fun time tho, it was well written and weird to piece together.
saw the plot twist a mile away, and most of the time my dumbass doesnt even see it even if its right in front of my face so it said a lot for me.
overrated.
Pancakes and frogs and time travelling and drag queens and found family and an underlying mystery and a wholesome sapphic love story on the new york subway>>>
I loved Evelyn's character, and the way this book progressed.
The ending didn't sit well with me though. I wanted to know more.
Very well done.
I need language to live, like food - lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt this before.
Slow, winded mysteries aren't really my thing, and in my opinion the actual mystery in this book wasn't the best I've read. The atmosphere of this book however....
It's so brilliantly delivered. Set in a theatre school with a found family group of Shakespearean scholars, the dark academia air was so amazingly RICH. The writing is beautiful.
Now I'm not someone who has an extensive knowledge about Shakespeare's works, and I feel like if I had read the works that are explored within this book it would've been an even more amazing experience for me, but nevertheless I still loved reading how the author brought those scenes alive and weaved then into her narrative. The characters were complex and very well built. I loved how they always had a quote ready for all occasions.
I enjoyed this for the experience it was!
There were some genuinely beautiful moments in this book that I loved but others felt like the intellectual banter was forced and pretentious.
I found this perfectly average, it was a short book so obviously it doesn't go too deeply into the relationship, it's filled with a lot of sex scenes.
I was probably expecting more sexualization of the doctor, but it was moderate.
It was a nice short read, nothing more.
Listened to this one from Mr McCreepyPasta's podcast in the dark, what an experience!
This is just trashy horror, and usually I like them but this was just not a fit for me.
This was giving 80s horny teenagers on a vacation cabin while a serial killer is loose in the forest behind. And trust me, I love that kind of campy horror, but this lacked any dimension. It just fell so flat for me.
Probably is a product of it's time, since it was actually published in 1980.
I don't see any reason to continue reading.
I don't think ive ever read a book that made me physically nauseous. The air around me felt tense and I had to stop to take a deep breath at one point, I wish I was exaggerating.
I've read quite a bit of extreme horror, just gore for the sake of gore, but this was so horrifying because it was so realistic. Based off of a true case. The 50s setting was so perfect, and the author takes time to really humanise the victims.
The pov worked really well too, because this is being narrated by the boy next door to where the abuse was happening, and how he perceives everything as an impressionable teenager himself. There is also narration from him as an adult which was painful, but insightful. You really get to see what it's like to be witnessing something like this.
This book is not easy to get through, yet i couldn't stop myself from flipping the pages. So brilliant for what it set out to do.
I came across one of Buddha's core teachings when I was younger, “Desire is the cause of all sorrow” and while, at the time, i remember it making a lot of sense, this book really makes me question it.
Our narrator Yozo here, is completely devoid of desire. In fact he is devoid of any feelings at all.
There are many disturbing things about this book, one being this is apparently the second most bestselling book of Japan of all time (??), two, the absolutely horrific way women are treated here, three, how relevant the ideas in this book are even though it was published in the 1930s, and four the fact that the author committed suicide a few months after the release of the book and there are many striking parellels between his and Yozo's life that has people questioning if this is his long and winded suicide note.
DO NOT read this book if you are mentally ill or suicidal.
Yeah, the more I think about this book the more I realise maybe that the desire to live, the desire to be happy is what keeps us all going, and desire is the all encompassing reason why we're all alive.
I think what i liked about this most is the format. This entire time, we are reading the entries off of a gay escort service website. It played out like a reddit mystery with thousands of strangers all around the world trying to solve it , but very, very dark. Very realistic portrayal of internet culture.
I have read quite a bit of extreme horror before, but the reason why i found this especially disturbing is because this lacks basic empathy, and humanity. I think about this book a lot.
If you've read and liked exquisite corpse by poppy z brite, you'll enjoy this one. It has a similar dark, gay underworld of sex, drugs, and blood.
I feel disappointed with this because it actually started out so good, the setting, the character work absolutely fascinated me at the beginning.
I thought Sean's POV was done so well, and how his mental illness added a psychological aspect to the book.
Also I read another book from this author which is called You Can Trust Me, and I loved that one, so I was excited to read her debut.
Later on, though, the part of the book where Sean is ‘hunting annabelle' was so cheesy, it read very YA, kinda like a Nancy Drew mystery.
The plot twist definitely caught me off guard, but I'm still confused.Sean only murdered 2 women, at the most. Annabelle is literally on her 28th. Why is she so obsessed with killing him and being all vigilante? If anything he should go vigilante on her. And there's some scenes at the end where she's gonna murder him and he literally jumps her and starts making out with her...? And all her apparent hate for him disappears? The guy she's been planning to kill for years, and she's just okay with being with him instead? It makes no sense.
Also the twisted love story aspect of the storyline, I didn't particularly enjoy it.
Overall this was a very linear, basic thriller. I don't think it's doing anything special.