This book sucks so fucking bad omg
like the parts where it covers the navison story
and like their little exploration into the spooky
depths of the undiscovered space in their house is
alright I guess but like everything from Jonny just
fucking sucks. I feel like most of those sections are
written just for the sake of being convoluted, the
author just seems to be writing a whole lot and not
actually saying anything.
Theres a difference between actually writing good prose
i.e. something wicked this way comes, and just talking
out of your ass.
I'm just tired of the whole liminal space thing overall
at this point, its been overdone. It was originally just
a simple observation that some places are a little uncanny
and has been turned into another mass produced mainstream
source of content. Like the whole part where they hear something
growling in the liminal space, just seems disconnected from the
reason why liminal spaces are spooky in the first place.
IMO its uneasy because its unexplained. There isn't really
a resolution or something to resolve the tension of the space,
i.e. there is a nasty ghoul or ghost.
what makes something like the backrooms great is this sort of
low grade and persistant discomfort, which isnt replaced with
terror or horror.