Rec
I plan on reading either Pressumed Innocent by Scott Turow or Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy next
Sep 26, 2024
Related Recs
Rec
Honestly got this book because I kept seeing those ā10 most evil villainsā YouTube videos.
I always find that with books, the first half is a SLOW BURN for me. It will take me months to read the first half and days to finish the second - American psycho, 1984, brave new world etc.
This book is slow atm š« but giving it a chance
This book is slow atm š« but giving it a chance
Jun 23, 2025
Rec
š»It's a western, but it's more relentlessly grim and ferociously cruel than any horror novel I've ever read. The very same reasons I think Robert Eggers (The VVitch) and Ari Aster (Hereditary) have made some of the best horror films since The Exorcist (1973).
1d ago
Rec
šI'm ridiculously behind and everyone has probably already read it. But I finished Gone Girl a couple weeks ago and absolutely loved it. The suspense, dual unreliable narrators, and strange intimacy you sense between them...phenomenal. You start by thinking Nick (the husband) doesn't know his wife at all and that he has just projected all his self-loathing onto her. Then you realize he wasn't entirely wrong and you didn't know Amy either. You don't know them but you do. They don't know each other but they do they do they do. The titular theme that you can never really know someone (yet you also can) summarized in these lines from the first page:
What areĀ youĀ thinking? How areĀ youĀ feeling? Who areĀ you? What have ... What haveĀ weĀ done toĀ each other?Ā What will we do?
*funny note 1: this was my 3rd attempt at reading Gone Girl over the past 4 years. every time i tried to read it i could never get to Amy's part because i just haaaaatedddd Nick so much i couldn't bear to be in his head any longer.
*funny note 2: my boyfriend was extra cautious around me and even a little anxious while i was reading LMAO
*sidenote: the movie was fine. i thought the pacing was a little fast, but understandable. what i didn't like was you didn't see any of Nick's internal monologue, so he just seems like a regular bum kind of a dick. when really he's like a huge piece of shit.
What areĀ youĀ thinking? How areĀ youĀ feeling? Who areĀ you? What have ... What haveĀ weĀ done toĀ each other?Ā What will we do?
*funny note 1: this was my 3rd attempt at reading Gone Girl over the past 4 years. every time i tried to read it i could never get to Amy's part because i just haaaaatedddd Nick so much i couldn't bear to be in his head any longer.
*funny note 2: my boyfriend was extra cautious around me and even a little anxious while i was reading LMAO
*sidenote: the movie was fine. i thought the pacing was a little fast, but understandable. what i didn't like was you didn't see any of Nick's internal monologue, so he just seems like a regular bum kind of a dick. when really he's like a huge piece of shit.
Jan 26, 2024
Top Recs from @kalebkaleb
Rec
great soul/r&b project. the songs fake loathe and coy boy have made their way into almost all my playlists
Sep 20, 2024
Rec
šIāve never been much of a reader until I started reading the books that some movies and shows that enjoy are based on such as American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange, Pressumed Innocent, etc.
Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024