Chris S

Where the book feels self indulgent, the film offers various ways for modern science and audience to adapt to this story. The book prides itself and struts its knowledge as if it has the answers. I believe that it's impossible for this story and that interpretation should be its best friend when it doesn't seem to be. I prefer the film, but I can't deny that the story at hand is the same and it is one of the best to be told. I don't know if I prefer the ape sequence in this or if I just admire the additional depth, but it's extremely effective. High 8/10

My brother let me borrow it. Finally got around to it and it was pretty good? I couldn't get invested with the characters at all except for the baseball villain of the week. I liked him a whole lot. The art is insane as always and it made me keep turning the pages to look forward to what would happen next.

High 7/10

It starts slow in the first 100 pages, but once they hunt and the connection to Francine becomes more interesting, it becomes more readable. The murder of the buffalo is one of the grossest and most well-executed sequences ever. I never really get grossest out, but I found myself looking away from the book at times. The second act is astounding, but the third act is real bad in my opinion. The 6 months or so when they were snowed in was way too rushed. It was a huge part of the narrative, yet it takes 3 pages. The ending was poorly written even though I liked how it worked thematically. I like the idea of the train making the town tired, but the writing was poor.
7/10

It was kind of jarring in a way that didn't feel like the whole story was naturally progressing. The tone has got to be my biggest issue. One scene they're having long winded conversations with and then he's getting killed two pages later. It left me confused and weirdly unsatisfied. I guess it's really hard to end a story with the nature of the titular Court of Owls, but a story about justice shouldn't be left open-ended.

Currently my favorite book of all time. I don't read much at all but hopefully I can get myself back into it with the slight assistance of this app. I love phycological horror films like The Lighthouse and Eraserhead. I'd say this is an amazing intro to Lovecraftian horror for most. Unexplainable terror not meant to fully described but merely interpreted in your own way. It's so hard to tell in this and other phycological horrors when the narrator or main character is making something up in their mind or perceiving something truly insane. Lovecraftian horror fascinates me so much.
High 10/10

Very interesting themes that made me change the way I see things that aren't all related to Appalachia. Other than that, poorly made and not my thing. I'd rather read fiction or something without a dumb and politically biased person writing it. I could get very heated like I did with my progress update I did on this a bit ago and I still agree with what I said. But I'm tired, overworked, not functioning, and calling my trans boyfriend who J.D Vance thinks shouldn't have rights. Imma go to bed now. Thank you.