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How does he keep this up for 7 more books and ever more on the way? How stretched does this series get???

Good fun so far.

This book won the Booker prize. The writing is stunningly beautiful but the story is utterly boring. I don't want to stop reading it, but I wish something would happen 😭

61 pages in a single sitting. This is fantastic but I can already tell I'm gonna be mad it isn't longer lol.

I love a friend group where they all have unique abilities that come into play solely to aid the unfolding plot.

The sarcasm drips ...

What was the obsession with women authors and mold a few years back. You had MEXICAN GOTHIC, YELLOW JEZZAMINE, as well as numerous others, and now this one? I'm honestly curious. Did they all read the same article? Was their a breakthrough in fungi research? It's so intriguing to me, because I don't think any men jumped on the bandwagon. Anyone know?

This is incredibly boring. I'll give it another 20 pages. Of it doesn't pick up, I'm out. Everyone says her novel IF WE WERE VILLAINS is a better example of this kind of set-up, so I might try that instead.

"Why did you let them take away your voice?"

"Would that be free will?"

The end of this book is one mic drop after another bi want to quote the last twelve pages verbatim, just to prove to y'all that you should read it. Goddamn, this is good. Hal Bennett was definitely in his bag for this one.

This might be the best non-horror novel I've ever read. THE GOLDFINCH is gonna have to step down from #1, I'm pretty sure.

White people and the pretense of virtue.

This book isn't a rollercoaster of emotions. It's a tsunami.

Speaking of big waves, it's looking awfully blue in America this morning 😁😏

This book is traumatizing me. Never read anything like it. The end of part two had me hollering. Shock ain't a strong enough word for what I felt reading that. Goddamn...

I'm living everything about this vulgar ass book. One of the best pieces of transgressive literature I've had the disgust and pleasure to read.

This book is crumbling in my hands as I read it. The spine has already detached from the cover wrap. I might legitimately be the last person to ever read this. There's copies for sale on Amazon, but they're $30+. I doubt anyone will pay that for a pulp paperback by an unknown author, but who knows.

Easily the raunchiest, out of pocket book I've ever read. I love it lol

Okay, that was nasty!

Interesting tactic: waiting until the last third of your novel to make it remarkable.

All I want to do is read OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE but no I gotta be broke and the library has to have 133 people ahead of me for the physical copy. Fuck my life ...

Anyway, this sucks, mostly, but it's scratching that small town horror itch I always get this time of year. The Bad Thing is a great monster, however, so I'll keep on keeping on.

Back to the backlog until King's new one is finally available.

I had this one marked did not finish. I don't know why I never finished it, I made it 150 pages into the book, and I wasn't hating it, so I figured I'll read it for Spooky Season. 🤷

I have been eagerly awaiting reading this book since I started reading the Frankenstein Horror Series last week. I mean, come on...how can you not want to read a book called GHOUL LOVER!!! 🤣🤣🤣

The men in this book are pissing me the fuck off. No one has any sense of urgency or survival instinct.

The author pauses the action and story progress in a pulp horror novel about werewolves to go on a 20-page diatribe about the importance and catharsis of art. I mean, I don't disagree, but it's like going to McDonalds for a dry-aged steak cooked table side by a master chef. The fuck lol

This one starts out gory and tense then devil ea into several scenes of people sitting around chatting. What makes it odd is that five people are dead so far yet none of the survivors have any sense of urgency. It's well-written but I'm almost halfway and wish it would get on with the getting on.

"There are depths to human viciousness that carve out a deep, dark hollow in the world--a pit of blackness. It seems to take an eternity to descend into it, if only as a spectator, and return into the sunlight again. And it almost blots out the sunlight for you after you've left it. It will be a long time before I'll be able to put what I saw just now out of my mind."

Bottom of page 24. Use for quote.

This is already ridiculous. I love it!

That last chapter was surprisingly boring for a sci-fi novel. I liked it, don't get me wrong, but it was deep, thoughtful literature, and I don't expect that from science fiction, or should I say, I don't want it in my sci-fi. I'm here for the strange and unusual, so when the author gets real and projects themes and theories, I take a step back and ask myself what I'm reading, meaning my immersion broke. I'm weird...

Usually I can't stand books with more than, say, 2 twists. I like a minor wtf moment followed by a climactic WTF?!??? moment. This one has had several of the latter, but I ain't mad at it. Vernon handles all these strings like a master puppeteer.

I sometimes hate that I was in the medical world and understand how things like modern prescriptions work, especially right now, because Vernon obviously tried to get the details right but the plot demanded inaccurate and outdated information.

Doctors allowed to write scripts for narcotics have watermarked paper they print out scripts on, or nowadays, they call into pharmacies. They can't use Rx pads anymore.

I don't feel a bit sorry for Oliver. He's ruined everything good in his life and still claims he's the victim. I don't feel like he deserves what's happening, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of listening to him whine, WHAT ABOUT me me ME! while Nathan is suffering the consequences of Oliver's actions.

Hot damn, this book is good.