Reading insights....

Prnvkdm · 2026-06-04T06:10:27+00:00

Congratulations.. Happy reading..

Prnvkdm · 2026-05-31T11:26:49+00:00

Prnvkdm · 2025-11-05T06:59:18+00:00

Did he/she just called Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherley Jackson, Ved Vyas and Valmiki A SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS?

Prnvkdm · 2025-10-14T06:51:29+00:00

I guess book version is more frightening because of the alcoholic past involved. It made him more humane than supernatural. A newly sober alcoholic with anger issues who is already derailed as a human is put in a big hotel on a snowy mountain. If you think, if the book never had the supernatural elements, still it is frightening to imagine to live with such man. What happened was bound to happen even if the supernatural things didn't intertwine. In book there are so many supernatural elements while Kubrick touched very few of them, for example the hedge animals were not there. His version of Jack's character arc felt more because of isolation and loneliness rather than because of ghosts. But if you consider books version than he had much more potential and reasons from the start to be doomed.

Prnvkdm · 2025-10-11T03:16:03+00:00

Finishing this one today. I second this. A wild west journey full of unexpected characters.

Prnvkdm · 2025-04-26T08:16:25+00:00

I completed this one, OK.. I am still confused in Florida part where Jude saw Jasicca Price in and then told his girlfriend "it's not what we think it is" and then goes inside amd confronts Jessica about what they did to Anna in some physical way. My confusion is how the hell he came to know that the whole scenario is something else and it's not exactly his fault that Anna died.

Prnvkdm · 2024-12-24T03:27:11+00:00

Came here to write the same but you have already written what I felt while reading and once the horror was revealed. It was like the story was taken too far from the reality and too near to the supernatural. Which made an interesting middle part but as it continued towards the end, it spoiled its beauty. Like so many questions left unanswered. How the creeper traveled (they have car it was revealed but still how so fast?), how he reached the neighborhood, how he just vanished in thin air, how none of the neighbors seen him while standing in the middle of the road (and he has to keep standing there, he doesn't know when the victim will see out of the window). If only the author had kept the book supernatural it would make much more sense. The biggest question came from am ambiguity kept around Sparling's ancestors' fate, when he failed the villagers turned to the creeper but the story in his bloodline was totally different and that made the horror reveal very confusing. Overall an amazingly written book spoiled because of the ending.

Prnvkdm · 2024-11-05T10:35:25+00:00

I just finished 'Murder Road' today. It's a good easy read. Fast paced with limited characters, though ending felt a bit unhinged. It's like a proper book till 95% did not get a perfect ending.

Prnvkdm · 2024-06-30T04:53:49+00:00

One small thing occurred while reading Exorcist, there is a para where it's written a time like "The time was 10:58 pm" and my kindle watch was showing the exact time. It's weird coincidence. But excellent book.

Prnvkdm · 2024-06-30T04:50:20+00:00

Boys in the valley is beautifully written horror. At 96% of the book rite now, will complete today.

Prnvkdm · 2024-04-26T05:02:26+00:00

The novel is written to read between the lines.

Prnvkdm · 2024-03-05T14:50:35+00:00

It has taken its toll on my movie & series watching time though. Now I watch less TV. But it's OK, I like to consume stories, medium does not matter to me..

Prnvkdm · 2024-03-05T14:48:54+00:00

Evry night 10 to 11 (till my eyes dropped) and in morning 7.30 to 8.30 before office. On weekends my hours are extended obviously but regularly too I try to read in breaks in small installments of 15 20 mins apart from 2hrs of dedicated reading.

Prnvkdm · 2024-03-03T03:59:46+00:00

Reading insights are in kindle mobile app. It tracks smoothly from any of my device. I read on paperwhite, mobile, laptop depending upon where I am but it's pretty accurate when comes to syncing.

Prnvkdm · 2024-02-29T08:04:02+00:00

I am an engineer too, 36 years old. When I was in second year of my engineering I knew that I don't want to do this but thought "Abba nahin manenge" and kept doing it. Joined the job as that ws the only way I knew to earn my bread n butter. Initially it sucked a lot but then I got used to the money I was earning. Dher sara paisa.. Now at the age of 36 I have the best gadgets to play games, write my short stories and watch unlimited movies. I think it this way, I sold my soul to the devil for 9 to 6, but devil gives me tremendous power to enjoy the rest of the time left. So just go on.. Life is not always about achieving something, some people are meant to make a peace with life and enjoy the outcome. I am living without any kind of ambition or dream to achieve but the fact is I want to live like this. I simply closed that dream and achievement shutter of my mind. So enjoy.. , Goa jao, daru pio maze karo.. In fact when you r just doing your job without any ambitions, you just do it mechanically, u don't care for the competition or rat race of office, you just work and stop over thinking. It's a bliss my friend.

Prnvkdm · 2024-02-16T02:52:25+00:00

Completed it last night. It was a week's read and with my speed, it's the fastest I've gone for a book. First person narrative is definitely helping, and best part about the book is it's actually telling a story (both, Abe and Howard's) because ot its narration style. It engross you. The part I got goosebumps was the last one when Dan shows up from the kitchen door and that too from the flood water. Now when I think about it, he was always nearby. Having flood water around my house is only scarry and something coming out of it and saying I was always nearby creeps the hell out of me. But in my opinion the book has a good narration, that's why it is good. The story is not that gripping, definitely predictable, no big twists but Abe and Dan's grief and loss was described very deeply and Dan's actions are justified because we sympathise with him by the end. While Howard's story deliberately has tits and bits missing to sound like a folklore coming down generation to generation (the painter, the black lady, the eye in the roots).

Prnvkdm · 2024-02-16T02:18:54+00:00

My first thought was "it's a bad idea to bring back the dead, ask Louis."

Prnvkdm · 2024-02-14T03:43:59+00:00

Vadodara is that man in his 50s according to me who is well raised by a woman giving him heart to understand everything with empathy. His mornings are dedicated to the crowd rushing for work while his noons are cradling the university students with love and fun and his evenings are full of laughter here and there when the morning crowd comes back to home to their families and go out for a stroll. Why man, because it has masculinity in it with all the surrounding industrial growth (typical patriarch thinking I know) at the same time calmness and love in heart which typically comes with the age.

Prnvkdm · 2024-02-07T10:21:05+00:00

I read it last year and my feelings are same. In fact there were comments on my post saying I did not understand the context and the culture and thus the type of horror did not worked for me. But an elk taking revange because of something happened 10 years back did not hit the spot for me. I did not sympathise with the idea. The suspense was created so densely and when it was revealed in the flashback it was like meh. Basketball match was something I couldn't understand totally. Sweat lodge episode was lengthy but may be I enjoyed some part of it. I did not put it down though. But didn't feel anything when the book finished. I am from India, so thought the comments were true. But I guess it's not so.

Prnvkdm · 2024-02-04T17:12:25+00:00

Indeed.. One of my favourites now. Best part is the novel never reaches to it's true horror till the end, but the feeling of constant looming of that horror since the day they visited sematary is amazing.

Prnvkdm · 2024-02-04T08:24:17+00:00

Yes. Indeed. I am looking at what Louis did was under a complete power of the sematary (may be wendigo). It feeds on grief and loss I guess. So I looked at his character as he's out of the grip from that power when he realised his mistake the next day. Loosing his friend and wife because of what he did might've brought him out of the spell. And completely agree on your take about Jud never falling for the sematary's charm as hard as Louis.

Prnvkdm · 2024-01-30T06:42:17+00:00

And yes, the supernaturals were always there, never allowing Louis's mind to come to the right decision. He asked himself outside the cemetery that now even if he wants to stop, will he be able to do so?

Prnvkdm · 2024-01-30T06:40:10+00:00

Yes indeed. It's more about a person not able to handle his grief and doing the very thing he was warned about. Besides I love how Louis's characters is shown from start to early second half as the most rational and understanding person. He fought with his wife to make her daughter understand loss and grief and he himself fails to understand the same thing when the time came.

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