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acotars · 1 year
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Read in 2023:
“By the power of Phil Collins, I rebuke you!” she said. “By the power of Phil Collins, who knows that you coming back to me is against all odds, in his name I command you to leave this servant of Genesis alone!” x
MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM by Grady Hendrix ★★★★
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"It's been like someone's touching the back of my neck all day long. And it's happening more.
Every second it's, like, touch-touch-touch."
Painted this a while ago after reading My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix (Still one of my favorite books) :D
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poisonandpages · 10 months
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"You keep rescuing me and I don’t know why,” Gretchen said. “But every day I tell myself my life must be worth something because you keep saving it. They can’t keep us apart. I don’t care what happens. You never stopped trying to save me."
Books Read or Re-read in 2023;
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
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MY BEST FRIEND'S EXORCISM - September 30, 2022 on Prime Video
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esqueletosgays · 1 year
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MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM (2022)
Director: Damon Thomas Cinematography: Rob Givens
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Have you read...
note: If you did not finish but feel you read enough to form an opinion, you may choose a ‘Yes’ option instead of 'Partly' (e.g., Yes, I didn’t like it). Interpret "neutral or complicated" however you like, I intended this category to be a broad option between like and dislike.
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Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of E.T., roller-skating parties, and scratch-and-sniff stickers. But when they arrive at high school, things change. Gretchen begins to act… different. And as the strange coincidences and bizarre behavior start to pile up, Abby realizes there’s only one possible explanation: Gretchen, her favorite person in the world, has a demon living inside her. And Abby is not about to let anyone or anything come between her and her best friend. With help from some unlikely allies, Abby embarks on a quest to save Gretchen. But is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
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brokehorrorfan · 2 years
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Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Final Girl Support Group) will publish How to Sell a Haunted House on January 17, 2023 via Berkley Publishing. 
The 400-page horror novel will be available in hardcover, e-book, and audio book. Read the synopsis below.
Every childhood home is haunted, and each of us are possessed by our parents.
When their parents die at the tail end of the coronavirus pandemic, Louise and Mark Joyner are devastated but nothing can prepare them for how bad things are about to get. The two siblings are almost totally estranged, and couldn’t be more different. Now, however, they don’t have a choice but to get along. The virus has passed, and both of them are facing bank accounts ravaged by the economic meltdown. Their one asset? Their childhood home. They need to get it on the market as soon as possible because they need the money. Yet before her parents died they taped newspaper over the mirrors and nailed shut the attic door.
Sometimes we feel like puppets, controlled by our upbringing and our genes. Sometimes we feel like our parents treat us like toys, or playthings, or even dolls. The past can ground us, teach us, and keep us safe. It can also trap us, and bind us, and suffocate the life out of us. As disturbing events stack up in the house, Louise and Mark have to learn that sometimes the only way to break away from the past, sometimes the only way to sell a haunted house, is to burn it all down.
Pre-order How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix.
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carriagelamp · 2 months
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Found some excellent horror-related and horror-adjacent books to read this month! Not a common genre for me, so this was fun. Really can't recommend Grady Hendrix as an author enough, Horrorstör was definitely my favourite novel from this month
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Eric
I hate saying it because I love the Discworld and Terry Pratchett is easily my favourite author, but man Eric did not do it for me. You could see some good bones in it, but as far as I’m concerned all the interesting bits that appeared were done significantly better in later books. It had some humour moments, but the only bits that I really enjoyed were when the Luggage was around.
This story followed a young, teenaged, would-be demon summoner who, instead of summoning a demon, accidentally winds up with the incompetent and fearful wizzard Rincewind. Obligated to answer this kid’s wishes, they end up bouncing through time and space while attempting to survive what each wish had to throw at them. 
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Fantastic Mr Fox / Esio Trot / George’s Marvellous Medicine / The Enormous Crocodile
I went on a Dahl kick this month, I wanted to work through some of his shorter works that I’ve never bothered to read before. All of them were honestly delightful, I had a blast. Esio Trot was probably the weakest of the lot, but the other three were so much fun. The Fantastic Mr Fox may be my favourite just by virtue of being the most fleshed out, but listening to The Enormous Crocodile be read by Stephen Fry is an unparalleled experience.
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Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy
A story I enjoyed more than I expected. I have a strange soft spot for hockey narratives, but that might just be the Canadian in me. Alix’s one true love is hockey, it’s the one place she feels competent and happy, but her team captain is making the space increasingly hostile until, unable to take the bullying, she strikes out and punches her captain. Shocked by her own violence and given an ultimatum by the coach to get her temper under control, she ends up going to popular and poised Ezra, hoping that he could show her how to deal with harassment without losing her cool in a way that scares her.
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Horrorstör
Easily the best book I read this month, this book was amazing, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s a “haunted house but in a knock-off Ikea” and I mostly picked it up as a joke because the premise sounded hilarious. But I was familiar with the author (I’d read The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires a couple years ago) and trusted him to do something interesting with the premise. And wow. Just wow. It is very much a classic, grisly, nauseating horror premise, but in a way that explores capitalism, exploitation, and treatment of prisoners and the mentally ill. It’s been  a long time since I read a book that actually gave me chills, but I had to put this book down and walk away from it occasionally, it was intense enough.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
As a Pacific Rim lover, this book was everything I’d ever wish for it to be. It’s such a love letter to the kaiju genre as well as environmental conservation, and it’s speculative biology is fascinating!
After being fire from his job at the beginning of the Covid pandemic lockdown in New York City, Jamie Gray is barely making ends meet by acting as a delivery driver. He doesn’t know how he can possibly continue on like this, until he runs into an old friend who offers him a strange and intensely secretive job offer. With nothing to lose, Jamie agrees and finds himself on an alternate Earth, helping to study creatures that he only knows from campy monster movies, now very much real.
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The Last Wish
Felt an urge to reread a Witcher book, so I’ve been picking my way through the short stories. They continue to be a lot of fun, and it felt good to reconnect with the original narrative voice again after reading a lot of fanfiction over the years. For anyone who has someone existed post-Netflix version without picking up the general premise: Geralt of Rivia is a "witcher", a person who was specifically trained to wield weapons and magics to hunt dangerous monsters that threaten humans. This is a collection of short stories that show Geralt on some of the various hunts he's had during the decades of his over-long life. (It's significantly better than the Netflix version, very much worth the read if you like classic high fantasy and/or fairy tale retellings.)
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Mortimer: Rat Race to Space
A very dull youth novel. Mortimer is a lab rat at Houston who has aspirations to go on the space program and prove that rats are better suited for colonizing Mars than humans. If you’re a seven year old who wants to consume space facts, this is the book for you. For everyone else, it’s a bit of a slog.
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My Best Friend’s Exorcism
Another Grady Hendrix book. This book was undeniably well-written, just as masterful as his others, but I didn’t enjoy it as much. A bit too much high school narrative and not enough all out horror. The conclusion was pretty decent, but the rest was… fine. A fun love letter to the 1980s though as you learn about two best friends and how they grow up together. ...A bit of a debate whether or not it warrants a queer marker or not, I'm not even going to make that attempt.
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The One and Only Ruby
The newest book from the One and Only Ivan series. Much like The One and Only Bob this book was… fine. The original of the series was really wonderful and felt quite inspired, inspired by the real life story of a gorilla that’s kept in a small cage in a mall complex. The next two books take place after that one and each follows one of Ivan’s friends (Bob the dog and Ruby the baby elephant). A fun enough addition to the series, the art is still cute, and it has decent things to say about the hunting of endangered animals, but it was nothing amazing. 
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Paperbacks from Hell
Look, I really just felt the desperate need to read a bunch of Hendrix novels after being so violently consumed by Horrorstör. This is a nonfiction book in which Hendrix dives into the evolution and popular tropes of horror novels throughout the 1980s, with the cover art being the driving thesis throughout. You can tell how much he loves these weird, pulpy horrors and it makes you want to go and find a bunch of these and read them yourself. It really is an interesting book, even if you aren’t a great horror lover (which I wouldn’t consider myself).
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The Salt Grows Heavy
Now this is a fucking novella. An absolutely unhinged, body-horror rich retelling of both The Little Mermaid and Frankenstein. Yeah. After the complete destruction of her husband’s kingdom at the hands (and jaws) of her own children, the Mermaid finds herself travelling with a mysterious Plague Doctor. I won’t go further into this except to say that the way it portrays morality, life, death, and the mutability of flesh is just… something else. Would recommend. But not if you have a weak stomach.
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Scott Pilgrim
A classic. I watched the new animated series with my brother and felt the need to go back and reread the entire original series. Absolutely perfect, no notes, continues to be one of my all time favourite graphic novel series. The magical realism is just *chef’s kiss*.
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keplercryptids · 6 months
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[image description copied from alt text: text that reads: For Abby, "friend" is a word whose sharp corners have been worn smooth by overuse. "I'm friends with the guys in IT," she might say, or "I'm meeting some friends after work." But she remembers when the word "friend" could draw blood. end ID.]
started reading my best friend's exorcism by grady hendrix, expecting it to be a silly romp of a time, and then this raw-ass line showed up on page 2.
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dextervexter · 11 months
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“But most of all, she remembers what happened to Gretchen and how everything got so fucked up back in 1988, the year her best friend was possessed by the devil.”
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bookmoodboards · 2 years
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My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
★ ★ ★ stars
"But she remembers when the word 'friend' could draw blood. She and Gretchen spent hours ranking their friendships, trying to determine who was a best friend and who was an everyday friend, debating whether anyone could have two best friends at the same time, writing each other's names over and over in purple ink, buzzed on the dopamine high of belonging to someone else, having a total stranger choose you, someone who wanted to know you, another person who cared that you were alive."
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lillydales · 1 year
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In 1988 best friends Abby and Gretchen navigate boys, pop culture and a paranormal force clinging to Gretchen.
With help from a mall exorcist, Abby is determined to compel the demon back to the pits of hell -- if it doesn't kill Gretchen first.
My Best Friend’s Exorcism (2022)
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virgilean · 1 year
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Books Read in 2022: My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
“You have a smile like fire and eyes like thunder, and you make servants kill their masters and children kill their parents. You are the devourer of stars, the destroyer of time, the rash solution, the cleaving that can never be rejoined, giver of dooming rage.”
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My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
This is another fun one from Grady Hendrix, who does such a wonderful job of blending horror and comedy. My Best Friend's Exorcism is set in the 80s, so there's a lot of nostalgia for those of us on the older end of the millennial range. Can't really go wrong with a Hendrix if you like funny spooky reads!
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mountainmaven · 6 months
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So I picked up My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix and was SO excited to read it. I'd heard nothing but glowing reviews. I was sorely disappointed. Here's my review under the cut because of spoilers (though I did NOT tag it as such on Goodreads - for a reason).
This was a huge disappointment for me. My first Grady Hendrix book, and possibly my last.
This might have spoilers but I'm not tagging it as such because I think people need to see these types of reviews. So read on at your own risk.
It started out strong, I was getting ALL the 80's feels! (I graduated HS in '86), that was the first 30 or so pages. My first little moment of "ick" was on page 45 with Margaret's brother Riley. The brother who was "famous for slipping drugs into girls' drinks,…and then, after they passed out, he'd have sex with them in the backseat of his car." No, no I think you mean he raped them. And got nothing more than a slap on the wrist being the rich little white boy he is. So we gloss over that. Then just other little things were starting to sit not quite right with me, just that little "ick" factor. But THEN page 165 happened. (disclaimer I had skimmed a lot between pages 101 and 165). During spirit week at the school and they had a "Slave Day" - I'm sorry, what now? Now granted I grew up in the Northeast and not the South but still (though I did move to the deep south right after graduation so I do have SOME idea of how things were). So author tells us that a certain day of the week was "Slave Day" and then says: "Five years later, Slave Day was gone as if it had never existed, but in 1988 no one dreamed that it could possibly be offensive. It was a tradition." And then goes on to tell us in a lot more detail exactly how they celebrated Slave Day during Spirit Week. First of all - yes there were people who would have thought that having such a day was offensive and him saying that there wasn't is, in itself, offensive. Look, I get that you're trying to set the tone for "how things were in the 80's" and how messed up a lot of it was, and how much we've come (and still have so much more to go) since then. But honestly if you want to do that then just write a non-fiction book about it. Don't sprinkle crap like this into a supernatural fiction book as an extremely poor attempt at shock value. Do better.
So as I said I'm not sure yet if I'll read any more of this author, but I do know that if I do I'll be borrowing from the library and not buying them.
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spiderliliez · 1 year
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Elsie Fisher (as Abby Rivers) Amiah Miller (as Gretchen Lang) Because demons can't come between true friends. MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM (2022)
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