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Christina
is 55% done
the only compelling parts of this novel so far have been the wasps & this moment right here where Jack talks himself out of the dead woman being in the bathtub but then immediately being confronted by her ghost
but I do hate Jack and his inability to take responsibility for his own (multitudinous) mistakes and will rejoice when he inevitably dies
— Oct 02, 2026 10:57AM
but I do hate Jack and his inability to take responsibility for his own (multitudinous) mistakes and will rejoice when he inevitably dies
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Christina
is 51% done
"He could be off the juice for 20 years and still when he came home at night and she embraced him at the door, he would see-sense (sic??) that little flare of her nostrils as she tried to divine scotch or gin fumes riding the outbound train of his exhalation."
people don't write like this, and they don't write like this for a reason, and the reason is: it is cringy and sounds stupid
— Oct 02, 2026 10:06AM
people don't write like this, and they don't write like this for a reason, and the reason is: it is cringy and sounds stupid
Christina
is 49% done
"he had beaten their mother for no good reason at all"
what's a good reason to beat a woman
go ahead
i'll wait
— Oct 02, 2026 09:46AM
what's a good reason to beat a woman
go ahead
i'll wait
Christina
is 49% done
"his mother, a nondescript woman who barely spoke in more than a mumble"
I'm TIRED
— Oct 01, 2026 07:34PM
I'm TIRED
Christina
is 32% done
This doctor: "Danny isn't psychic he's pretending and he's trying to stop but he's like a junkie kicking a habit"
Me: excuse me
— Oct 01, 2026 05:47PM
Me: excuse me
Christina
is 29% done
i hate Jack actually and violence against children is my least favorite thing in a book so I might not even finish this because what is the point
— Oct 01, 2026 10:08AM
Christina
is 20% done
All of you people have lied to me. You guys told me that Stephen King was a good writer, but it turns out that he's just a little sexist ("her skirt came down to her mid calf but it didn't need to be any shorter in order for you to know she had good legs"??? "she walked away, pert bottom twitching"?????) and really, really pretentious
— Sep 30, 2026 06:59PM
Christina
is 14% done
Sad soggy mom just thought about falling from a great height when looking from a scenic overlook and if she dies from falling off of something i will be angery
I will also be angery if she dies in a bathtub
mark me
— Sep 29, 2026 03:17PM
I will also be angery if she dies in a bathtub
mark me
Christina
is 13% done
I actively dislike this. It feels heavy handed. The child is psychic, the dad is a drunk, the woman is the saddest most pathetic woman I've ever heard of in my life, they are doomed from the start, and yeah, we love Eurydice and Orpheus knowing they are doomed, I love Oedipus for the same reason, but this doesn't feel like that. This feels like trauma porn and I don't care about these sad soggy white people
— Sep 29, 2026 03:09PM
Christina
is 4% done
baby's first stephen king
I'm sure nothing bad will happen when this man who definitely needs to go to therapy takes his wife and child to be snowed into a remote and empty hotel for an entire winter! Everything will be so good and fine for them since the hotel is definitely not haunted and no one is prone to excessive violence!
Bit heavy on the exposition so far but I suppose that's not a CRIME
— Sep 28, 2026 07:23PM
I'm sure nothing bad will happen when this man who definitely needs to go to therapy takes his wife and child to be snowed into a remote and empty hotel for an entire winter! Everything will be so good and fine for them since the hotel is definitely not haunted and no one is prone to excessive violence!
Bit heavy on the exposition so far but I suppose that's not a CRIME