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We can all agree that this was utter cringe, right?

>> No.12678155

>>12678129
Yes

>> No.12678177

Is it? ;_;
I just bought it cuz it looks cool from the out side

>> No.12678224

>>12678177
I had heard good things from my friends, so I decided to give it a go. I need to stop trusting what normies say.

>> No.12678242

It's a unique concept, and fun for a readthrough around halloween every couple years.
It has about as much literary merit as Dragonology though.

>> No.12678450

>>12678129
Absolute cringe. Thought the gimmick would be fun. It's not, because half of it reads like some third rate academic boring everyone with meaningless shit, and the other half is edgy "descent into madness" stuff that was done far better by other writers. Plus the story never culminates into anything

>> No.12678510

>>12678129
Yes

>> No.12678770

>>12678177
>>12678224
Its literally fine.
What you should actually do is stop giving people on 4chan the benefit of the doubt when they call every single book out there dogshit.

>> No.12678825
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12678825

It’s a decent horror story. If you go into genre fiction expecting high art then 99% of the time you are going to be disappointed.

>> No.12678873

The labryinth was great but it's the only thing that I actually remember about the book.

>> No.12679258

>>12678450
It's not absolutely horrible but it's pointless and doesn't even manage to be a good horror or mystery book.

>> No.12679725

>>12678129
Great in concept. Terrible in execution. It had a good sense of oppressive dread. Certainly not a masterpiece but I enjoyed quite a bit more than most horror I've read.