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lurkykitty (3 KP) rated The Only Good Indians in Books

Mar 25, 2020 (Updated Mar 25, 2020)  
The Only Good Indians
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones | 2020
10
8.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
The Only Good Indians is a well written and superbly crafted horror story. (0 more)
A well written and superbly crafted horror story
The Only Good Indians is a well written and superbly crafted horror story which takes place in the northwestern US and has characters from the Blackfeet and Crow tribes. Four young Blackfeet men embark on a badly planned and illegal elk hunt which results in a violation of tribal values and the desecration of nature. Ten years later, an entity exacts her revenge in a chilling, suspenseful and brutal fashion. The characters are incredibly well developed given the length of the novel, and the reader develops sympathy for them. The reader also empathizes with the perspective of the entity who pursues the four men. This story has great depth in its exploration of themes of cultural identity, tradition, social justice, revenge and respect for the natural world. Horror readers will love this, but I would also recommend this book for readers of fiction in general. I can see why this The Only Good Indians is receiving so much critical acclaim.
  
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Aasiyah Sidat (34 KP) rated Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales in Books

Jul 5, 2018  
Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales
Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales
Margaret Atwood | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
8
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Atwood is the queen of thought-provoking, witty writing.

Stone Mattress is a collection of 9 stories based on old people. There is a mixed bag of characters from an author of a fantasy series to a disembodied hand that is madly in love.

All the stories in the book feature the characters looking back on their lives.

I really enjoyed the stories which had themes of romance, horror and brilliantly executed wit.

Continue reading my review at: https://www.readsandrecipes.co.uk/2017/07/read-harder-story-collection.html
  
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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Pulse (Kairo) (2001) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020  
Pulse (Kairo) (2001)
Pulse (Kairo) (2001)
2001 | Drama, Horror, Mystery
9
7.4 (5 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Spine-chilling, fucking exceptional horror. For all intents and purposes, this is the scariest (horror) movie I've ever seen - I couldn't walk around in my own house the same after watching this. Could be personal preference, but this just captures that eerie sense of merging humans and ghosts *just* so to where it's deeply, deeply unsettling. The deliberate lack of any cues as to when the horror is happening, and the vaguely creepy gestural stuff (i.e. moving your arms a little weird, slightly stumbling [almost intentionally so] when you walk) as opposed to outright demon-esque actions makes this feel more real, akin to something like those disturbing LiveLeak types of videos - binding the void between scary movies and snuff films. And this is all not even to mention the emotionally hefty themes and crackerjack dialogue which subvert this even more beyond the pack. Stumbles ever so slightly in its final fifteen or so minutes, but otherwise the work of a genius if you can get past the aged analog about the internet being this mysterious new entity.
  
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Suswatibasu (1702 KP) rated Our Endless Numbered Days in Books

Jul 24, 2017  
Our Endless Numbered Days
Our Endless Numbered Days
Claire Fuller | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
9
7.5 (4 Ratings)
Book Rating
A demented tragic inversion of The Road
When I first started reading this, I was expecting an apocalyptic type novel - which in some ways it was for the main character Peggy.

Her father, who should have protected her, took the young child down an extremely dark path in this novel concluding with the ultimate horror in its final climax.

If I mention the themes it will probably end up spoiling the story but it is not a traditional Armageddon plot.

A trigger warning is required with this tragic, terrible story so read with an open mind.