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Looks interesting.
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And then chapter one begins with a flashback .. which is relatable to our world .
On chapter 33. I like the short chapters. A very different kind of story.. I've never read anything like this before..
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This should have been named Blindfold rather than bird box.
I am finding myself more interested in the past story than the present. The present story doesn't have anything happening in it. I am not finding it too boring as the chapters are short and I'm able to complete several chapters in one sitting. But I agree with you, it's not a page turner either.
Not much of a horror person here, so I don't have anything else to compare this experience with, unless I include a few of the 'Goosebumps' series books that I had read as a child 😁
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The shining , IT etc ..
The thing(s) with me and this genre is-1. I do not like getting spooked! (It is such an unpleasant feeling, I often wonder why people like to watch/ read scary stuff that will give them nasty dreams).
2. I do not get spooked easily either. My brain is too rational and unimaginative I guess :) There are moments when I've watched the occasional horror movie (Ragini MMS, lol), that I've definitely felt like screaming, but overall, my brain just doesn't find ghosts, etc to be creepy, hehe.
Anyway, looks like there are only the two of us who are reading this book. I've rated it 3 stars. It was more like 2.5 stars. I cannot comment on the horror part of it (refer point 2 above). It was an average suspense-psychological thriller to me. It was quick to read and I was curious to see how it ended. Maybe the movie will be better?
Yes, Niveditha the ending of the movie is better.
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And I guess the author has planned sequels .. am almost sure of it the way it ended in the book.
Just finished with this book, read it in a day. I think I liked it. Mostly because of the setting, and the situations the story created. Going to watch the movie next.
The movie was very disappointing. Thank God I read the book first.
Shubham wrote: "Why does the movie has so many changes??:-/"Exactly! They ruined it! I got none of the feels I got from the book. The children had no skills, the housemates seemed dumb, Malorie and co seemed to live pretty much luxuriously through the four years, the acting was laughable...
It completely spoiled the book's aftertaste for me..
Thanks for the heads up, I will stay away from the movie.
The second book doesn't need much of an introduction either (Thanks Netflix), yet, here it goes:
Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.
Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it's time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. Something is following them all the while, but is it man, animal, or monster?
Interweaving past and present, Bird Box is a snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.