Yeah this about sums up my feelings towards a majority of the book. Reading about people either salivating or being shocked over Lord Henry‘s fancy preaching became tedious quite quickly.

I hate that I‘m like the only person to ever not love this book

God I love that store. The cafe in the basement is great as well, lots of people meeting up to talk books or writing.

Yeah, it‘s more about that feeling of existential dread and absolute loss of control and understanding when it comes to what‘s out there, not about spaceships and aliens.

At its very best, this kind of horror gives me a feeling of insane unease about the fact that there are things out there that could wipe us out in a matter of seconds without us ever understanding why or how. That includes alien forms, but also lots of other cosmic occurances

“A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.“

-Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps

This was exactly my experience. The second is not good, but at that point I was still so hyped and invested in the story that I breezed through it. The third however… ugh.

Don’t know man, those last few sentences are even pretty amazing as well. I held my breath those last few paragraphs

Yeah those are the big ones. Everything else is mostly a matter of taste, but when the grammar or vocab are lacking… that‘s just inexcusable.

The Road by Cormarc McCarthy. That book had me in such a tight grip I couldn‘t think about anything else until I had finished it

I‘ve loved Fear And Loathing but never dove into his other works. Can anybody tell me a good starting point?

Have you tried reading Murakami? It‘s not Magical Realism per se (though I know there‘s a lot of people who would argue they are) but it‘s a very good entry point and his books are great fun when you just let yourself enjoy the ride.

Be prepared to encounter some weird shit tho. Every book of his has at least one weird sex scene.

I personally haven‘t read it (tho it‘s definitely on my tbr list) but from what I‘ve heard it definitely fits.

Eco Gothic is such an intriguing subgenre, I really want to read more stuff like that

How has noone said One Hundred Years of Solitude. It‘s like multiple books in one

Didn‘t know that but it makes sense. Fear and Loathing and Gatsby are all about the shallowness of the American Dream

I just read Pedro Paramo because it is credited as the first novel of the Latin American magical realism boom. It was fantastic.

Same. Especially those pages in which Dorians descent into hedonism is explained in what is one of the longest passages of „tell not show“ I ever read killed all excitement that I had left.

Those blood transfusions drove me crazy man. Like he even KNEW it was a vampire who did it with all the garlic and shit, just tell us SOMETHING Van Helsing PLEASE I‘M BEGGING YOU I JUST WANT YOU TO FINALLY SAY IT.

But no. It takes over 200 pages and about twice as many blood transfusions until he finally tells the other characters what he knew all this time