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It’s wild for a book with this kind of plot to be so excruciatingly dull

‘You must stop imagining that posterity will vindicate you, Winston. Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history.
We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere.
Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain. You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You will never have existed.'

'Listen. The more men you've had, the more I love you. Do you understand that?'
"Yes, perfectly.'
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.'

"I hated the sight of you,' he said. I wanted to r*pe you and then murder you afterwards. Two weeks ago I thought seriously of smashing your head in with a cobblestone. If you really want to know, I imagined that you had something to do with the Thought Police.'

The girl laughed delightedly

Patrick Hockstetter is the most interesting character in the whole book. Fight me

Stephen King describing the old lady who lives in Beverly Marsh’s old apartment.

She sounded like Yoda from the empire strikes back.

Creative

All of the “it’s Dracula! / The Mummy! / The creature from the Black Lagoon!” parts are just unforgivably shit aren’t they. I forgot about them.

It’s the equivalent of reading a modern horror book and someone is like “OMG Freddy Krueger just jumped out!”

Woof

Why has the series randomly turned into an episode of Darkplace

Yeah cba, might return to this in a few years

For the first few pages I felt like 'I already know I can't be fucked with this. Maybe I'm not in the right headspace. Or maybe I don't like books that feel like someone jerking off with a thesaurus jammed in their mouth' but thankfully I got into it eventually

I see so many “horror book people” online post about this author. I already knew it wasn’t for me, but holy shit I haven’t cringed this much while reading since Raymond Chandler

Promising idea (kiiiind of swiped from The Sluts) but there as just no mystery, suspense or reality to it

Why the fuck are they talking like it’s 1917