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Thank Fuck stuff is actually happening finally.

I’m tired of this book ughhhh

This is scarier than any splatterpunk novel ever.

This book is Fucking Awesome, The chapter NEDRY? forever with me. Micheal Crichton you FREAK. /pos

I’ve never watched the movie, but I assume it doesn’t include so many children getting mauled by dinosaurs.

I did reach a point in this book where she was still promising we would talk about things later and I was like I Prommy I’ve Bought The Book And I’m Not Just Perusing It In The Barnes & Nobles.

Nonfiction read. I don’t do a lot of these. Kind of disappointed the author has chosen to just sort of let “cult” mean many things. This isn’t exactly a research paper and I think sticking with a firm definition (while maybe acknowledging there are outliers and exceptions) would have made for a more compelling premise. idk I’m only 40 pages in.

It’s so embarrassing to read sci-fi staples everyone else has read. I feel like I lose all my sci-fi cred.

i LOVE one sentence chapters. This book is so punchy.

I’m so fascinated by the POV character being an amorphous group of voyeuristic men looking back on childhood and this tragic family.

Jury is out on if I’m finally burnt out on reading or if this book is just BORING.

Already a much bigger fan of this than I was of Castle in The Air.

almost 200 pages before any mention of Sophie or Howl. It’s truly dire.

This is Rough. I’m only reading it because I own it, and I would feel bad just watching it waste away. Abdullah is unlikable, but that’s probably just because the book itself is racist. The vibes are rancid. Not to mention fatphobic. It’s only 200 something pages or I might just use Goodreads new DNF shelf.

There are few characters more fucked than Luis is.

I love how the movie is like a fairytale and this is genuinely so funny. Howl why are you so whiny and so Wales.

Not even 100 pages in and they have me taking NOTES

I have a long drive today so I’m gonna listen to this

The Dragon devours his sons D:

RF Kuang second half protagonist lock in commence!

If RF Kuang is gonna do anything she’s gonna make me feel bad for some gay men who are right person; no time.

I actually read the first one eons ago (August 2024). Sometimes I feel thrown out of the universe by how contemporary the dialogue is, but I must suspend my disbelief at least that much because it’s not like they’re actually speaking english either.

That infanticide content warning was doing a lot for the suspense in this book, idk where we go from here.

The terf cult is actually scary.

Against my better judgement, I’m giving splatterpunk another chance. All this toe talk is already making me question this decision.

This book’s saving grace is how absolutely deluded the narrator is. I like that he argues like a lawyer subconsciously, like it’s second nature. I like that it’s never occurred to him that he’s not empathetic, that his low level of empathy is not the norm.

This book is so glaringly obviously written by a man. At a time when no one asked, he describes his wife’s boobs (he says breasts) as “defeated by age.” And I cannot stand here and pretend the author wrote that as a character decision for Andrew Barber.

Oh I love ML Rio so dearly. I can taste the stuff I liked about IWWV in here!!! The vagueness and mystery of what happened to Gil and The Kills. Gills death. I love it so much.
I’m from MS so Phoebe’s existence pleases me! She’s so beautiful.

“She would always be eleven.” made my little heart hurt.

Early Hopes: I hope Hot Wax is referring to the myth of Icarus somehow.

I’m reading this book SLOWLY, I have decided. I kind of sped through Katabasis and I think my enjoyment of it suffered.
Con: I don’t like reading hardcovers :[