The Horror Book Club 👻 😱

This will be the home of the Horror Book Club. We’ll likely organize a read every Summer and Halloween, with the occasional book in between if we’re interested.

I’ll organize this thread better later when I have more time, but for now I just wanted to give any horror-related discussion its own home.

The Book Club has read:

image リング | L35 (learnnatively.com) by 鈴木 光司 (home thread)

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Reserved for nominations and stuff :slight_smile:

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@nikoru This could also be the place we discuss a possible quick English-language horror book reading, if you have any recommendations.

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Heard this is supposed to be good, even though I have 0 idea what it’s about. :sweat_smile:

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Oh I’ve always wanted to read this too but never got around to it yet!

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It’s on my to-read list! If I had any kind of free time, I’d start it right now, but alas…
I’ve read another book by this author, and I liked it, but it was more mystery than horror once again.

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@omk3 Would you like me to list リング under this book club on the index of book clubs thread, or keep it in the informal catagory?

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Yes, I think リング definitely belongs here, even if retroactively. Thanks for taking care of the organizational stuff :slight_smile:

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If anyone feels like a lighter difficulty horror I recommend 図書室の怪談 悪魔の本 (ポプラキミノベル み 1-1) | L26

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When I look for Japanese horror recommendations online, I often come across books by 貴志祐介, most often this one:

(sorry for the Bookwalker links, none of these are on Natively)

I find the premise of these two also intriguing:

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Nice, thank you for the thread!

To repeat the question in the リング bookclub:

Would somebody be interested in reading one in English or maybe even in the Japanese translation, to see whether the language is a factor?
I found a recommendations list for good horror books, and some of the abstracts sounded quite nice, so maybe I will explore that list a bit more.

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And as I said in the other thread, I’m in :slight_smile:
I’m more interested in reading something quickly in English, as I’m drowning in Japanese right now.

I don’t have much to recommend, but I recently read about this book and how it’s supposedly very scary:

(do these links also benefit Natively if we end up buying? :thinking:)

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Yes, anything you buy on amazon, if you originate from natively, counts, as long as it’s an amazon country Brandon already has managed to get the affiliate programme running. :+1:t2:

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