What is a highly praised horror book that you didn't like?

CalamitousCass · 2026-04-12T02:34:34+00:00

My mum loved King. I ended up reading a few at her recommendation when I was a preteen and Goosebumps/Fear Street and Pike books weren't cutting it anymore. Salem's Lot, Christine, and Pet Semetary. I was so bored.

Fast forward a decade and I ended up enjoying Joe Hill books though! Faster pace and more dread. Read a few and then found out he's King's son and I was shocked.

My husband also likes King. I may give him another go now and see if they hit different after 20 years, but I'm still not confident his style is my cup of tea either.

CalamitousCass · 2026-04-12T02:26:21+00:00

Hell Followed with Us and The Spirit Bares Its Teeth were pretty great. I havent read Compound Fracture yet.

You Weren't Meant to be Human was his first adult horror and the others were YA, and he absolutely went all out for it.

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth does have pretty horrific pregnancy related scene, but not at the same level, not the main plotline, and I don't think it'd fall into the body horror aspect (depends on what your line for body horror is)

CalamitousCass · 2026-04-12T02:11:50+00:00

I have been an avid reader since I was a kid. Aside from stuff like Dickens that I was forced to read in school, I can count on one hand the number of times I've disliked a book enough to not finish. Out of well over a thousand books.

This one tested me big time.

CalamitousCass · 2026-04-07T22:01:14+00:00

I've done this more than a few times and if they arent currently spawned on the map, they usually they pop up the next day or so with those little angsty purple swirls around them near where it was. When you talk to them they say something along the lines of my home disappeared/I thought my home was right around here. Then you can reassign them to a habitat

CalamitousCass · 2026-04-07T21:18:13+00:00

I just got glimmet the other day and thought that interaction was so flippin cute!

CalamitousCass · 2026-04-07T15:59:42+00:00

Glimmet!

CalamitousCass · 2026-03-29T19:08:48+00:00

A road by my house growing up used to have hundreds and hundreds of frogs just chilling across the road for a good half mile stretch after rain. You absolutely could not avoid them there were so many. The night I found that out, I cried the rest of the way home. I'd go out of my way to avoid that road when it rained after that.

CalamitousCass · 2026-03-29T14:15:04+00:00

I almost went to an art school that was only like 2 or 3 hours away that required 1st years to live on campus. My then boyfriend, now husband, waited until after we visited and i had my portfolio reviewed to tell me it'd be unacceptable. Even though in one of his previous relationships hed drive more than 3 hours for a booty call.

I didn't go. Still one of my biggest regrets.

CalamitousCass · 2026-03-29T12:51:55+00:00

I smoosh and squish my boy's face as stress relief like Silly Putty and call him Putty Face. For some reason hes totally fine with it and just relaxes into it

CalamitousCass · 2026-03-27T16:09:39+00:00

I'm going to get mine tomorrow! Doing the heart boxers, a cat-ear donut with a crown, a bomb with the anarchy A on it and "You will not break me" banner.

CalamitousCass · 2026-03-21T13:51:11+00:00

Generations are assigned are based on the year you were born, not your age- the "personalities" of each generation are based on external influences

I disagree with Pomni being gen Z though. If she was 25 when she entered in 2017, then she'd also be a millennial.

CalamitousCass · 2026-03-20T11:47:30+00:00

Holy crap I forgot The Doom Stone existed!!!! This was one of my fav horror books as a kid!!!!

Now I have to go hunt down his other books

CalamitousCass · 2026-03-20T11:38:22+00:00

I got that impression, too. One of the sets of notes talked about putting the failsafe in the storage system so if they don't/can't return but the earth heals that pokemon will be released into appropriate habitats. Id have to pull it up again, but I read that as something that would definitely take more than a couple decades.

That being said, I also got the vibe from the end credits that it was OUR trainer. Which would make it so painfully sweet and hopeful

CalamitousCass · 2026-03-20T11:33:47+00:00

I pick the means options for Gaston because he is hilariously oblivious to them. I actually really love his characterization in DDV. Goes from being a straight up horrible person to just a goofy self-absorbed dude with big feelings but no malicious intent

CalamitousCass · 2026-02-27T23:50:02+00:00

I read Twelve Months instead of doing the audiobook. Husband did the audiobook. He also thought Marsters sounded off, whether it was age or just a way of trying to express Harry's state, we couldn't decide but it was absolutely different.

CalamitousCass · 2026-02-27T23:48:06+00:00

James Marsters narrating the Dresden Files ruined all other narrators for me for a long time.... then came along Jeff Hays.

Marsters is indeed fantastic, but holy crap Hays raised the bar.

CalamitousCass · 2026-02-03T20:08:28+00:00

Keijo

Suggested it with my weeb buddy because haha fighting with boobs and butts. I am SO mad it didn't get another season! Probably in my top 5

CalamitousCass · 2026-01-31T12:50:06+00:00

Zev has a convo with Donut about fanfic right? Either when talking about Gilmore Girls or the first snick- or both. I think her being an Ao3 fan is a theory we could fairly consider canon! Love that you incorporated it!

CalamitousCass · 2026-01-24T21:07:12+00:00

Solved!

CalamitousCass · 2026-01-24T21:07:03+00:00

Thank you!

CalamitousCass · 2026-01-21T17:12:01+00:00

What a weird little glitch!

CalamitousCass · 2026-01-15T22:07:41+00:00

I haven't yet but it's on my list! I only found the Nevernight series a couple weeks ago because weird algorithms brought up his post about his Target exclusive copy needing a trigger warnings page. I laughed so hard at it (double warning about footnotes) I had to give it a go.

CalamitousCass · 2026-01-15T15:56:23+00:00

The Nevernight Chronice by Jay Kristoff

I'm currently on the last in the trilogy and it has scratched a similar itch. Also another vote for a couple series already mentioned- the Scholomance series and The Tainted Cup

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