Jonica
Was the shitty hand drawing of boobs necessary?
Was the shitty hand drawing of boobs necessary?
I'm a pretty avid horror reader but I didn't come into the genre easily. I spent most of my life being mesmerized by the mysteries and monsters but being so deeply afraid of being afraid that I couldn't bare to look past the cover of a horror book or watch more than few seconds of a spooky movie. The fear I felt of what "true" fear might feel like was so profound that I couldn't experience much of life at all. I couldn't stay the night at friends houses, go to museums, answer the phone, walk around a corner without anticipating the horror lurking just out of view. It would take some pretty intense antidepressants and a year of letting those marinate before I could dip a toe into the world of horror and when I finally did, nothing could capture the fear I felt for the unknown.
All this to say that this book and its weird little stories might be the closest anythings come to that feeling from when I was a kid. The stories aren't scary (to me), to be honest, the almost feel mundane but it's that mundanity that makes the approach of the unsettling so effective. These stories creep up slow on you and I love how it slightly gets more intense with each story till there's almost a release at the end. This selection of stories is it for me and I will be digging into whatever else Guadeloupe Nettle has in store!
I'm a pretty avid horror reader but I didn't come into the genre easily. I spent most of my life being mesmerized by the mysteries and monsters but being so deeply afraid of being afraid that I couldn't bare to look past the cover of a horror book or watch more than few seconds of a spooky movie. The fear I felt of what "true" fear might feel like was so profound that I couldn't experience much of life at all. I couldn't stay the night at friends houses, go to museums, answer the phone, walk around a corner without anticipating the horror lurking just out of view. It would take some pretty intense antidepressants and a year of letting those marinate before I could dip a toe into the world of horror and when I finally did, nothing could capture the fear I felt for the unknown.
All this to say that this book and its weird little stories might be the closest anythings come to that feeling from when I was a kid. The stories aren't scary (to me), to be honest, the almost feel mundane but it's that mundanity that makes the approach of the unsettling so effective. These stories creep up slow on you and I love how it slightly gets more intense with each story till there's almost a release at the end. This selection of stories is it for me and I will be digging into whatever else Guadeloupe Nettle has in store!
Vibes. Weird vibes. But vibes all the same.
Vibes. Weird vibes. But vibes all the same.
Such a strange and stirring book. There's a 2006 video game called Rule Of Rose that (for me) lives in the same universe as this. Both stories contain an outpouring of complex emotions from little girls who feel so far removed from everyone and everything. As a result, you end up marooned on an island with these girls and go back and forth between despair and tenderness for the experience.
Such a strange and stirring book. There's a 2006 video game called Rule Of Rose that (for me) lives in the same universe as this. Both stories contain an outpouring of complex emotions from little girls who feel so far removed from everyone and everything. As a result, you end up marooned on an island with these girls and go back and forth between despair and tenderness for the experience.
The dog :(
Bro fuck those kids
Such a cool read! This gave me the same vibes as those dragon ology books that I was obsessed with as a kid. I would totally read a more narrative book following Dr. Black around through his disappearance.
Such a cool read! This gave me the same vibes as those dragon ology books that I was obsessed with as a kid. I would totally read a more narrative book following Dr. Black around through his disappearance.
Ok, so this one is a tough read. It doesn't hold your hand and it's best to just kind of give yourself up to it and just take in the words if you can't take in the meaning quite yet. I would suggest using this as an exercise in developing media literacy and avoid looking up explanations while reading. It took me till about 2/3rds of the way through before my thoughts started to become cohesive about what I was reading.
Keep reading if you'd like to hear about what I think is happening:
I believe that this story is about evolution. The huge environment changes and the strange creatures melding into the narrator or giving things like their eyes to them feels like a poetic way to describe the evolutionary process. For awhile, I thought that the narrator was never human like I thought but was making their way to human and perhaps started as plant or small single celled creature. But towards the end, with the single eye (or potential space helmet) and launching into space thing, I believe that it's possible that narratively, evolution is used to describe the dramatic shift in humanity. Could be wrong but being right ain't really the point!
Ok, so this one is a tough read. It doesn't hold your hand and it's best to just kind of give yourself up to it and just take in the words if you can't take in the meaning quite yet. I would suggest using this as an exercise in developing media literacy and avoid looking up explanations while reading. It took me till about 2/3rds of the way through before my thoughts started to become cohesive about what I was reading.
Keep reading if you'd like to hear about what I think is happening:
I believe that this story is about evolution. The huge environment changes and the strange creatures melding into the narrator or giving things like their eyes to them feels like a poetic way to describe the evolutionary process. For awhile, I thought that the narrator was never human like I thought but was making their way to human and perhaps started as plant or small single celled creature. But towards the end, with the single eye (or potential space helmet) and launching into space thing, I believe that it's possible that narratively, evolution is used to describe the dramatic shift in humanity. Could be wrong but being right ain't really the point!
Such a cool and interesting read
Such a cool and interesting read
Such a cool and interesting read
Really cool world building. Would love to read more stories from other parts of the world in this universe
Really cool world building. Would love to read more stories from other parts of the world in this universe
Really cool world building. Would love to read more stories from other parts of the world in this universe
Really cool world building. Would love to read more stories from other parts of the world in this universe
The twist at the end is so brilliant. I'm gonna be thinking about this one for a long time
The twist at the end is so brilliant. I'm gonna be thinking about this one for a long time
The twist at the end is so brilliant. I'm gonna be thinking about this one for a long time
The twist at the end is so brilliant. I'm gonna be thinking about this one for a long time
Ok, so this one is a tough read. It doesn't hold your hand and it's best to just kind of give yourself up to it and just take in the words if you can't take in the meaning quite yet. I would suggest using this as an exercise in developing media literacy and avoid looking up explanations while reading. It took me till about 2/3rds of the way through before my thoughts started to become cohesive about what I was reading.
Keep reading if you'd like to hear about what I think is happening:
I believe that this story is about evolution. The huge environment changes and the strange creatures melding into the narrator or giving things like their eyes to them feels like a poetic way to describe the evolutionary process. For awhile, I thought that the narrator was never human like I thought but was making their way to human and perhaps started as plant or small single celled creature. But towards the end, with the single eye (or potential space helmet) and launching into space thing, I believe that it's possible that narratively, evolution is used to describe the dramatic shift in humanity. Could be wrong but being right ain't really the point!
Ok, so this one is a tough read. It doesn't hold your hand and it's best to just kind of give yourself up to it and just take in the words if you can't take in the meaning quite yet. I would suggest using this as an exercise in developing media literacy and avoid looking up explanations while reading. It took me till about 2/3rds of the way through before my thoughts started to become cohesive about what I was reading.
Keep reading if you'd like to hear about what I think is happening:
I believe that this story is about evolution. The huge environment changes and the strange creatures melding into the narrator or giving things like their eyes to them feels like a poetic way to describe the evolutionary process. For awhile, I thought that the narrator was never human like I thought but was making their way to human and perhaps started as plant or small single celled creature. But towards the end, with the single eye (or potential space helmet) and launching into space thing, I believe that it's possible that narratively, evolution is used to describe the dramatic shift in humanity. Could be wrong but being right ain't really the point!