Chula Vista

By Reason of Insanity - Shane Stevens

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

MicShazam

The second of her essay collections I'm going through. She's got a few more. Looking forward to the section with essays about movies. I skipped the first essay, "The Aesthetic of Silence" because it was largely tedious and over my head (which is probably where the tediousness came from). It's about modern art as an ideology that seeks first to ultimately reach the goal of silence. To not communicate anything. I read about a third, didn't get it, and moved on.

The one I'm reading about now is about the literary view of pornography and it's interesting.



Not giving up on this one since it's so short anyway, but I'm kinda bored by it tbh

The Batlord

Just finished reading Uzumaki, a horror manga in the vein of Lovecraft, and it was delightfully phantasmagorical and bizarre as all weird fiction should be. Basically everyone in a small Japanese town becomes obsessed with spirals. At first that's the entire premise, with little stories about a man so obsessed that he twists himself into one inside a wooden barrel, apotter making warped, twisted pottery embedded with tormented faces; and people turning into snails and ****. And when the narrative really picks up it gets even more bizarre. H.P. would be proud.

What really makes the series pop though is the artist's visual sense. He doesn't do horror like he's trying to imitate movies. He draws unsettling images that haunt your mind with one of the oddest forms of body horror I've seen.





I put this here rather than the anime or comic threads because Exo is the only one on this site I've seen with an Uzumaki avatar and I doubt he reads those.

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Mondo Bungle

I've read all of Uzumaki like 6 times

The movie is a novel effort in visual stimulation but fails as an adaptation, unfortunately.

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The Batlord

Now I'm all about reading Tomie next. Sounds also next level.

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Mondo Bungle

Gyo too

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The Batlord

And the Gyo collection also comes with "The Enigma of Amigara Fault" which also sounds mind melting. I'd love to know there were other manga horror writers who went so far outside the normie tropes. **** reading Tokyo Ghoul.

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MicShazam

I don't really read novels. I got this Camus book because I'm specifically interested in essays and I just happened to stumble across a copy.

The Batlord

People who don't read fiction are boring.

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MicShazam

I read fiction in the shape of comics and there's movies too, but for some reason, novels don't do it for me. I feel like I'm pushing myself to read as if it was a duty.