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juushikaTitle: Ted the Caver
Author: Ted
Published: 2001
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 45
Total Page Count: 494,170
Text Number: 1760
Read Because: rewatched Jenny Nicholson's Why Does Creepypasta Suck, available free online
Review: One of the original creepypastas: recorded in annotated diary entries, a caver attempts to explore a narrow virgin passage with unusual, possibly uncanny qualities. The epistolary format complete with low-res photos and the constrained scope really sells this one; also, descriptions of caving are so viscerally unpleasant that it almost renders the more concretely supernatural elements irrelevant. Scary? a little! Compelling, though, absolutely.
Title: This World Is Full of Monsters
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrator: Vikas Adam
Published: Macmillan Audio, 2019 (2017)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 40
Total Page Count: 494,210
Text Number: 1761
Read Because: fan of the author, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Speedrun your VanderMeer experience in this conveniently small package: a writer consumes/is consumed by a story that mutates him and then the entire planet, reshaping it into an alien ecosystem. Alien consciousnesses who affect catastrophic change, not because they're malicious but because change is their natural state; the anxiety of doubling and the conflict between catastrophic personal change and the mundanity of lost domestic life; gorgeous descriptions of the natural/changed world - packed in tight, it's intense and Weird but doesn't have room to breathe.
Title: Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Author: Cassandra Khaw
Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar
Published: Macmillan Audio, 2021
Rating: 1 of 5
Page Count: 30 of 130
Total Page Count: 494,240
Text Number: 1762
Read Because: browsing available now horror audiobooks with mixed success; audiobook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: After graduation, an estranged friend group visits at an ancient, haunted Japanese manor to conduct a marriage. DNF at 25%. The cast is intolerable, and the writing style won't let that lie: every tense repartee must be elaborated with an essay on affect, and there's only so many times I can be told at length about a character's smarmy clueless good-old-boys vibe before I decide I don't care what happens to him, or to anyone else here.
Author: Ted
Published: 2001
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 45
Total Page Count: 494,170
Text Number: 1760
Read Because: rewatched Jenny Nicholson's Why Does Creepypasta Suck, available free online
Review: One of the original creepypastas: recorded in annotated diary entries, a caver attempts to explore a narrow virgin passage with unusual, possibly uncanny qualities. The epistolary format complete with low-res photos and the constrained scope really sells this one; also, descriptions of caving are so viscerally unpleasant that it almost renders the more concretely supernatural elements irrelevant. Scary? a little! Compelling, though, absolutely.
Title: This World Is Full of Monsters
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrator: Vikas Adam
Published: Macmillan Audio, 2019 (2017)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 40
Total Page Count: 494,210
Text Number: 1761
Read Because: fan of the author, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Speedrun your VanderMeer experience in this conveniently small package: a writer consumes/is consumed by a story that mutates him and then the entire planet, reshaping it into an alien ecosystem. Alien consciousnesses who affect catastrophic change, not because they're malicious but because change is their natural state; the anxiety of doubling and the conflict between catastrophic personal change and the mundanity of lost domestic life; gorgeous descriptions of the natural/changed world - packed in tight, it's intense and Weird but doesn't have room to breathe.
Title: Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Author: Cassandra Khaw
Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar
Published: Macmillan Audio, 2021
Rating: 1 of 5
Page Count: 30 of 130
Total Page Count: 494,240
Text Number: 1762
Read Because: browsing available now horror audiobooks with mixed success; audiobook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: After graduation, an estranged friend group visits at an ancient, haunted Japanese manor to conduct a marriage. DNF at 25%. The cast is intolerable, and the writing style won't let that lie: every tense repartee must be elaborated with an essay on affect, and there's only so many times I can be told at length about a character's smarmy clueless good-old-boys vibe before I decide I don't care what happens to him, or to anyone else here.
