RE: What are you reading?
September 1, 2023 at 8:33 am
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2023 at 8:34 am by zwanzig.)
(August 27, 2023 at 6:08 pm)Ten Wrote: The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
A reread. I adore the shit outta this book. The terrors in the Night Land are just perfectly horrifying and monstrous. Although the narrator really could use some cleaning up, he's repetitive and droll at times, once you get past the "as I have stated"s and back to the description of the watchers and the Silent ones and the giants from the pits! Ohhhhoooohhhhhhooo!
Also reading Tell Me To Stop by Charlotte Byrd. Intriguing, mysterious. I'm whimsically delighted and I like the protagonist enough to see where this goes. She has a good head on her shoulders but she also takes the risks I want to take, even if they're not the smartest decisions.
I quit Tell Me to Stop about 20% in. The mysterious billionaire she finally meets tells her in exchange for the money he gave her, he wants her to stay with him for 365 days and be his arm candy. And I was like, "Oh noooooo, babygurl!" and deleted it from my Kindle. It's just so boring. I really hoped there was something magical or exciting about where the mysterious check came from. But no, it was just a plain old, "Billionaire wants to groom a whore" plot.
