Reading Booktuber's Scariest Books ft.
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- Опубліковано 24 жов 2024
- In today's vlog, I read booktuber's scariest book recommendations!
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@JessieMaeBooks
@bookloverlaura
@booksaresick
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So glad you enjoyed my pick! I read it a while back, but that scene early on with the child healer lives rent free in my head years later! 😅😅 Thanks so much for watching my video
I started watching your channel about 10 years ago and watched frequently for quite a few years. However, my preference of media gradually shifted to much calmer, slow-paced, and relaxed content which led me to stop watching your channel like 7 years ago. For some reason, last month I grew curious about your channel and started watching some of your videos again and I have since grown quite fond of the good-natured and less hyperactive direction your channel has shifted towards.
I just think its quite interesting how things I loved in childhood usually find a way back into my life.
I have to say, I read the Butterfly Garden back when I was… 13 I think? Or 14. The thing is, you are so right. That book does scar you and you never quite forget it. I still think about it. It still horrifies me. I don’t remember how it was resolved, but the image of the garden? That never left me. It’s awful. You all should read it!
I love how messed up readers are like. Yeah this book scarred me and traumatized me. So hey, y'all should read it ! 😃
@@ishitaasen3733 that’s the vibe, yeah 😂
I don't know if it's the scariest book I've ever read, but the scariest book I've read recently is "I Found Puppets Living in my Apartment Walls." I found it randomly on Amazon and couldn't resist the title, and it was genuinely scary. The author said that he based it on his lifelong puppet nightmares and, for such a silly premise, he does a good job capturing that nightmare fuel. Just thought I'd throw out indie pub novella recommendation.
I can't think of anything right this second for adult horror, but the first thing my mind went to was The Deptford Mice by Robin Jarvis, which I read when I was about 10 or 11? It was my first scary book and I still remember the fear/horror and thrill. So if you ever want to do a video on children's/middle grade horror, I recommend it! Also, Jarvis is a British author, so Idk if his books ever made it in the US, but I'd be interested to know your take on it. Anyway, read it for mice protagonists, cannibalistic rats and an eldritch god in the sewers.
Oh booksaresick is one of my favourite bookstagrammers. How did I miss that he has a youtube channel as well.
Ive started watching booktubers who read extreme horror. Different from books that i read but im inspired to expand my horizons. The realistic horror is compelling.
I think Tender is the flesh did a good job on showing how out of touch we are with the way we treat animals and livestock in our society. Also the greed we feel in terms of them (animals). I mean we definitely see that we treat our new “food” equally as bad because to us that’s all it is. Food. And this argument is easy when you can say well it’s just an animal they can’t feel pain. (Which isn’t true but nonetheless) But now you’re putting a conscious being in that position?! And still treating it like that?! 🤯 I loved it! I’m glad you read it!
I don't scare all too easy, except with uncanny valley topics. Which is why I remember Among The Dolls by William Sleator. It's an extremely short (middle grade? YA?) little book and I haven't read it in several years but I remember it freaking me out. (I'm not afraid of dolls, I collect them,) but the descriptions of uncanny valley are eerie. I should reread it this halloween to see if chilling as I seem to remember...
Not so fun fact about me: I am a 37-year-old woman with a ridiculous fear of dolls because I watched Child's Play when I was 6. To say I screamed like a little girl when that picture popped up in your video would not be an exaggeration
oh noooo! i'm so sorry!
No, wait, I've thought of one. Near the Bone by Christina Henry. Its a blend of human and supernatural horror about domestic abuse, religious fundamentalism and a Creature. I also recommend Henry's other books for action/adventure and unsettling elements, but I'd say they're less horror/scary? Also maybe more on the action/adventure side, but Dread Nation by Justina Ireland is very exciting. It's a zombie apocalypse novel set in the US civil war era from the perspective of black girls trained to fight zombies in service of rich white people so, you know, it's got that humans are the real monsters element thing too.
I don't scare easy, and I haven't actually read a book that did scare me. Disturb me? Yes. Made me tense? Yes. So those will be the books I will recommend. The first book is one that I did not love but you may and that is The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher. A world is found in a wall, and two people decide to explore it. But there are cryptid messages saying that they can hear you and to pray that they are hungry. Lost in this land they work to get their way back home but as they travel it becomes increasingly clear that they are not safe and others before them did not make it. Another story that was tense in my opinion was The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. You read some of his stuff and by memory you enjoyed it, so maybe give this one a try. The last book I would recommend is Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca. I have no idea how to describe this book. I could not eat meat for three months after reading it because of that one goddamn scene.
I also like horror games, but like books they don't really scare me. That being said there are two that made me tense, one which I need to continue. The first is Bramble: The Mountain King. This gorgeous game in which follow a young boy on a mission to get his sister back from a troll. He has to travel through through this forest full of hungry and dangerous creatures. This is based off norse folklore and since then my mother has done two paintings of creatures from this game. The second game is Slay the Princess. In this you are given a mission to kill an imprisoned princess who will destroy the world. Will she? Do you kill her? It is up to you.
tender is the flesh is amazing!! I love she's a South American female writer =) Another latin american author is Mariana Enriquez! she also writes scary-ghost-creepy stories
I recommend reading Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix. It is both scary and funny, and the physical format of the book is so well done. If you've ever been in an IKEA and read their magazine, I highly recommend. But I think The Troop by Nick Cutter is probably the scariest book I've read, so I'd also recommend that if you like body horror.
Books like the butterfly garden are supposed to be more disturbing than scary so it lingers with you and stays unsettling
That seems like it's supposed to be more of a psychological thriller
The ocean at the end of the lane isn't necessarily scary, but its one of the only books that made me feel uncomfortable and unsettling as i was reading it.
We love Agustina in this house. She has direct control on my anxiety.
🎃 i gave tender is the flesh a 4 stars because it really stuck with me for a long time after i read it. i really liked the dystopian aspect of it and i think what made it scary/unsettling was how plausible some of it could be. another scary book rec is house of leaves! its definitely an endeavor to read through but i was genuinely scared with some scenes!
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
the book is basically The Shinning meets the Titanic
I gave Tender is the Flesh 4.5⭐️🙈 Very disturbing & gross........AND THE ENDING?!?!? Had me shocked!
What a coincidence I JUST finished Small Favors by Erin Craig and enjoyed it!😁
"Mary" by Nat Cassidy is probably the scariest book I've read
Maybe it's because I can mentally tone it down, but I can't think of any books that actually scare me.
Great Vlog Jesse and I’m subscribed to Jessie Mae too she’s a great book tuber love her channel 📖😊 And I was at your livestream reading sprints earlier today just couldn’t stay long cause I was at work but when I got home I did the reading sprints while watching your livestream since it was still up on your channel So to answer the questions you asked My Favorite Halloween Movie Definitely Hocus Pocus Hands Down & Young Frankenstein & Addams Family Movies From The 90s 🖤🖤 Can’t Wait For Your Next Reading Sprints Livestream and hopefully I’ll be able to stay for the whole thing next time Have a Great Day tomorrow Happy Reading Jesse 📖🎃
These books are more depressing than scary.... Not a book, but the movie based on a book, The Lovely Bones. That was traumatic for me. I still get creeped out when thinking about it.
Totally agree about some of the unnecessary sadism in Tender is the Flesh. For me the thing that bugged me the most was some of the scenes with the women (specifically on the tables on the slaughterhouse) were pretty much exactly the same as the stuff you see in a really extreme form of pornography that I won't name. So she's depicting women being treated in this way presumably to criticize animals being treated badly, with the message presumably being "you wouldn't treat a person this way"...except that women ARE treated that way. And even if it was supposed to be feminist criticism of women being treated as walking wombs, then a man who fantasizes about women being treated that way would have been able to read that scene as his type of pornography. As a woman I'm so over dystopians that just show women being oppressed and brutalized. If I wanted to see that I'd just log on to the internet :(
Also, I will definitely NOT be picking up the flesh book. No, no, double no. W/ Extra No Sauce on the side, tyvm. I already know it will make me angry. And we're just gonna avoid that situation for our mental health, ok? Esp cause you said puppy scene and all the signals in my dog mom brain went off 10 fold.
If you like spooky I recommend How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix, for sure.
Happy reading!
Absolutely agree that the puppies didn't need to be there!!! I had to skip those pages. Out of place and so needlessly grotesque.
happy all hallow's eve, mates. also my fave out of all these books is definitely Tender is the Flesh. Just... such a perfectly grotesque work of horror art.
I have seen great reviews of this book and people enjoy it. There's a book I didn't get to see as many reviews of but the reviews I did see are interesting the book is grandpappy I hope to get it soon.
I read The Butterfly Garden a couple of years ago and liked it! I also had to suspend my belief 😅
Oh my god! I think this is the first time I've seen Butterfly Garden outside of my immediate friend group 😭😭😭 (I love Dot's books if you couldn't tell, also 🎃)
You should check out the second book too if you haven't already!
Also also, thank you for featuring smaller BookTubers!
Ahhhhhhh Thirteenth Child!!!!!! I'm so jealous of the beautiful book box you got for it!
I'm halfway through right now and it is very much a story about life and death, but also an exploration of the grey areas surrounding it all.
Loving it so far and definitely recommend taking a few minutes before starting to read the Grimm tale it's inspired by (Godfather Death) 🎃
I read Incidents around the house on September 1st and as a mother this book hit my heart and scared the beejesus out of me. The book is written in the perspective of the child and just watching their fear got to me. Plus the added fear of feeling like you can't protect your child is terrifying
I've read all of the Butterrfly Garden books. They're less about the horrible things that are the backdrop of the plot, and more about the FBI agents.
I think you'd really enjoy Out by Kirino Natsuo! It's a japanese thriller with a very unique element to it. Part of what makes it so deliciously scary is that it manages to hypnotize you into seeing a horrifying and unexpected thing that happens in it as something mundane and it's totally done on purpose through writing.
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Love the cozy/spooky vibes of your recent videos, Jesse!
I had to come back to see this…I 🧡Halloween so much! But…I don’t read a ton of horror.
2:30 in the video & I'm too scared/sad to keep watching! 😢
I can recommend The Prey by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, I wouldn't say it's a horror, but so creepy...I needed a daylight to read it 😆
well my computer doesn't have a pumpkin emoji lol
Is "Block" out the outside world a Lego pun? Bc blocks? :D
The scariest book I've ever read is I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid! We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kilweir is also up there
One of my scariest books is Katzenjammer by Francesca Zappia
I want to read butterfly garden! It seems so interesting!
🎃🎃🎃 Hello! Your live stream helped me read a ton today!
Great video! 🎃
i didnt like the ending of tender is the flesh because it was like the opposite of what it was trying to say closer to the end?? unless the msg is that greed/wants wins regardless in the end?? (idk what word choice would be best since its been a while since i read the book but i remember what they chose in the end but i wont spoil)
Gave one star to Devil Takes You Home and Tender is the Flesh. Not really horror and both of them were dull and trying too hard to be shocking/scary.
Do you like scary books? They're too much for me!!!! I love your videos
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The scariest book I've ever read was The Pen Name by David Jacob Knight.
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