Oh, how serendipitous! I'm glad my review was helpful in some way. Ooh, Stephen King, I remember browsing some of his novels during visits at relatives - before they noticed and took them out of my hands, saying this was in no way child-appropriate. (I was, what, twelve?) And they were right, because of course I had happened to read a part of "Misery" that gave me nightmares for a week, lol. So this cemented in me the wish to conquer my fear of this book and what came out of it in the end was that I read lots and lots of King horror novels in the 90s. "The Cipher", in comparison, was... just really out there. I don't think I got it, any of it. I just didn't have the context, as a teenager who back then hadn't even found his goth scene yet. So I'm glad I was able to reread the novel now that I'm older. And to be honest with you... despite loving horror, there's still movies I refuse to watch and books I refuse to read, and usually it's because they're just not my thing (e.g. zombies or torture porn) but sometimes it's also a kind of superstitious dread - "House of Leaves" has been on my shelf for years and I am not sure I will ever read it!
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Date: 2024-10-16 10:47 am (UTC)Ooh, Stephen King, I remember browsing some of his novels during visits at relatives - before they noticed and took them out of my hands, saying this was in no way child-appropriate. (I was, what, twelve?) And they were right, because of course I had happened to read a part of "Misery" that gave me nightmares for a week, lol. So this cemented in me the wish to conquer my fear of this book and what came out of it in the end was that I read lots and lots of King horror novels in the 90s. "The Cipher", in comparison, was... just really out there. I don't think I got it, any of it. I just didn't have the context, as a teenager who back then hadn't even found his goth scene yet. So I'm glad I was able to reread the novel now that I'm older.
And to be honest with you... despite loving horror, there's still movies I refuse to watch and books I refuse to read, and usually it's because they're just not my thing (e.g. zombies or torture porn) but sometimes it's also a kind of superstitious dread - "House of Leaves" has been on my shelf for years and I am not sure I will ever read it!