John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I’ve seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they’re grifters profiting from real creatives.
I am holding you gently. Please read this book. This book is so so good.
I love Chuck Tingle. I love horror. I almost cried when I read the blurb on the back that says, “We are all lucky for the statistically infinitesimal chance to be alive while Chuck Tingle is writing books.” I feel that deeply.
Horror has always been my favorite genre of anything. But there is something so special and so unique in the way Tingle writes. He mixes terror and hope in a way that claws right through me. There is intrigue, there are scares, there is a monkey dressed as Shakespeare. Everyone is queer. In my mind Denver looks like Sigourney Weaver in Holes.
I thought nothing would be better than the salacious religious trauma in Camp Damascus; I thought nothing would be more physically, viscerally terrifying than a man being slowly sledgehammer-tortured to death.
I was wrong. There are parts of this book that genuinely scared me and made my heart rate rise. There are parts that made me laugh and parts that made me tear up. And yet, at the end of it, hope.
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