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Author references Ken Wilber and Integral Theory. This is a good sign.

Relationships are hard. Feeling roughed up by this book, and that’s probably a healthy thing.

ADHD means always starting a new book before finishing the last one. 🫤

Also, feeling attacked and personally called out by words on a page is probably a sign I should keep reading.

“Lit from above like the last live human caught in God’s wandering eye.”

I’ve seen lots of reviews commenting on how they don’t like Kathe Koja’s writing style.

It reminds me of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett, early 20th C hard boiled detective fiction. It’s heavy on vibes and atmosphere. Either you dig it or you don’t. I Love it.

I read this for the first time back in the late 1900s when it first came out, and it hit me like a a brick. Returning to it as an older, slower version of the young man who was so taken with the intensity of it at the time.

I remember this as a book about bodies and obsession and art, industrial tools and metal fabrication, love, bodies in motion, violence, and bleeding flesh.

“Golden retriever stalker.”
LOL 😂

I have come to believe that everybody has some stripe of 🌶️ romance that works for them.
And most of us are gonna be hella surprised we discover the one that clicks.
Just sayin. 😉

Kinda here for a stalkee who is as unhinged as their stalker.

Seen this reviewed as “Dark, but not toxic”.

To quote Bill Hicks… “F*@k it; found my brand.”

Yeah, this is more my vibe than the 🌶️ monsterfuckers.

I tried the “Monsterf*cker” romances, but they didn’t click. I think I worried about worldbuilding too much.

I know how social media and hospitals work, so with this I can just delve into the dysfunctional relationship and smut.

Liking it so far.

So yeah, I seem to have entered my “Unhinged Monsterfucker Romance” era.

as someone who has been a lifelong reader fantasy and Science Fiction, I’m finding it interesting how much I’m into this book. Which may be one of the least fantastic stories. I have read in a while.
Yes, I’ve seen the movie, yes, we’re talking about an authenticating a book that is possibly co authored by Satan.
But overall it’s just got a very detective story vibe to it and I’m digging it

I find that I’m enjoying the bookish, bibliographic catalog details of the texts Corso comes across. I kinda like a protagonist sitting at a computer and compiling notes on a project, it seems.

I’ve been think my about the movie “The Ninth Gate”, but fuck Polanski. So I decided to
give the book it was based on a try.

Been a while since I’ve read this one. Recently found myself discussing meditation and spirituality w a homie.
Gotta get back on the cushion.

I’m loving the weirdness of JV’s vision. From how much original Dungeons and Dragons relied on JV’s magic system, to the fact that Dr Frank N Furter making a vat-grown being would 100% fit in.