WTF DID I JUST READ? ~ How to Sell a Haunted House ~ let's discuss
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- WTF DID I JUST READ? ~ How to Sell a Haunted House ~ let's discuss
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I'm more disturbed by the idea of taxidermy squirrel nativity scenes than puppets 😂
Same!!
Definitely!!
I did enjoy the book. Did have really silly stuff but I liked how both the brother and sister we’re dealing with the trauma in their own way
I have never been so glad I didn’t read a book 🤣
Same!
Same! How utterly gross. There's so many books on my TBR pile and I absolutely will never get to that book! 😅
Me too... Now I'm definitely NOT reading it...
Same!!
+1 Same!
I'm definitely not reading the book, not my style, but your review is hysterical.
This book sounds like a fever dream.
I actually enjoyed the book. Louise ignoring pupkins antics at first made sense since the family tends to ignore traumatic events. I’ll agree that Mark not saying that it’s the puppet didn’t make sense however Louise would’ve ignored him anyways.
I see where people say “why didn’t she just kick the puppet, it’s just a puppet.” But I think the author did a decent job describing Pupkins strength. To me it sounded like malevolent forces gave Pupkin strength and that’s why he was able to pin Louise down. And why it was difficult to take him off someone’s hand (also the person wielding Pupkin would lend their strength to Pupkin to keep it from being pulled off)
Your rantish videos are my favorite, this was so entertaining!
Lol, welcome to Grady’s world, where laughing is encouraged in the most bizarre situations. I am a huge fan and my favorite book is the Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires.
I’m a big fan of Grady Hendrix and How to Sell a Haunted House was one of my favs of last year. With that said, I totally get why it may not work for a lot of people. Agreed the title and cover are pretty misleading. I’m a big fan of camp and OTT horror so I ate it up! I’d suggest Southern Bookclubs Guide to Slaying Vampires as it still has the charm and spookiness, but far less campy and less violent!
I HAVE ONE ARM, LOUISE. the way i snorted
I don't imagine ever reading this book. (LOL with your description).
That was the most entertaining video I have ever seen of yours! Fantastic story telling! I was laughing out loud! Great fun, Elliot! Thank you
All these puppet shenanigans remind me of gardens of the moon (the only one of those I've read). Also that milking the wound thing . . . Like what is that?
There were definitely some moments I had to close the book and walk away for a bit. Overall though I thought it was a ton of fun.
I just finished this book, and I was a little disappointed but overall enjoyed it. I loved My Best Friend's Exorcism, but mostly because I'm old and all the 80s references made my heart happy. I will say I think if you're over 40, it might appeal more if you are a horror/scary movie fan. How to Sell a Haunted house gave me original Poltergeist vibes, so maybe it's just the nostalgia that I love about his writing.
I DNF’d with only 100 pages left. I just couldn’t make myself keep going.
I read most of this book but stopped because it got too weird, now when you talk about it I'm glad I did! 😅
I DNF'd it before we even got to the puppet. There were truly great emotional moments in the beginning, but the return to the extreme strife between the siblings after the funeral became intolerable. I'm so so glad I bailed early!
Omg the Denny’s outro 😂😂
I've read a few of Grady Hendrix's books and all provoked different reactions in me. "We Sold Our Souls" was pretty ok, "Horrorstör" was disappointing, and I absolutely HATED "My Best Friend's Exorcism". 😤
About this book, I have no plans of ever reading it. I love haunted house stories and this sounds like it would frustrate me big time.
I still have "Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires" and "Final girl Support Group" in my physical tbr.... I hope to God I like them... 🤞🏻🙄
I’ve had my eye on this book because I love a good haunted house movie. Figured I may enjoy it in book form too. I would have been frustrated if I wasted my time on this for it not to even be a haunted house. Thanks for the review. This was helpful!
Add to NGR (Never Gonna Read) list lol
Im listening to this while tidying the house and I keep freezing in place whenever you say something strange. So glad I am alone because if someone was here they would think I'm having a weird seizure.
I’ve read two Grady Hendricks books, My Best Friend’s Exorcism and The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. Both were campy. And I didn’t enjoy either one. But I think horror can be campy but done well, like Clown in a Cornfield. It was clearly a take on 80’s and 90’s horror movies. But it was fun and well executed, imo. But the Grady Hendricks camp was just way over the top and not believable at all.
I have never clicked a video so fast - not because I've read this book but because I knew you were about to go in and you did indeed! 🙌🏾 It truly sounds like there was some blindfolded dart throwing for some of these plotpoints.
I've read a good few Grady Hendrix books. They're all kind of tongue in cheek horror stories. We're doing horror, but we're also gently making fun of horror, but we're also doing horror anyway. I'm not a regular horror reader, but it works for me. Of the ones I've read, I've liked them all but this was maybe the toughest to digest. I'm surprised to see how successful he is. Several of his books have over 100,000 ratings on goodreads, which makes them real blockbusters I guess.
I read this book for a book club. Everyone in the group really liked it, but I wasn't a fan. I didn't hate this book, it just wasn't my thing. But I read The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix and I liked those a lot more. Not as satirical/silly.
Agreed!
Yeah really enjoyed "My best friend's exorcism!"
Started this but was not in the mood for such a dickhead brother.. now I am glad I can move on.😅
Why is Elliot ending with a picture of Dennys instead of her dog? XD
😂
That is weird
I'm assuming it's because the brother took Louise to a diner after getting a needle in her eye instead of the hospital.
@@TheShootingShark hahahaha I think You're on to something.
This sounds like a dumpster-fire of a book! Thanks for taking one for the team, for reading it so I never will.
I read this and really enjoyed it. Most of Hendrix's books are comedy horror and very campy, I find them to be funny and entertaining reads. My favorite of his is My Best Friend's Exorcism, its very campy but the friendship depicted in it was very heartwarming and felt sincere. If you want to try something of his less campy and more on the creepy side, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is a good one. Less silly humor and more creepy build up (though there is some ridiculous violence at the end still)
I’ve read every single Grady Hendrix book and this was definitely a weird one. I found the pacing super odd. Seemed like a huge climax came in halfway through for sure
I ended up really liking this book. I almost DNF'd during the middle section with the brother's story, though. I credit this book to helping me get back into reading.
Wait, I’m confused, she never went to the doctor after what happened with her eye??????
I've only read this one and My Best Friend's Exorcism. Best Friend was really good, great horror, also very 80s campy too. A little satire, but not silly in the way this one was. I was mostly enjoying Haunted House until the end. While it made for a good mystery, it just wasn't very satisfying after all the siblings had gone through.
Great review! I was really interested in reading this book, but after reading two other books by Hendrix (Horrorstore and We Sold Our Souls), I put it off. I left those books feeling pretty much the way you’re feeling about this one. Like, they’re not bad, they just started to not make sense, and I was wondering if I was missing something. 😆
I wasn’t planning on reading this since something about is stories just doesn’t work for me, but oh damn, I am glad I didn’t pick this one up!
This book review was very entertaining.
Im so glad you agree that the marketing for this was so misleading, I enjoy wacky but I was a bit put off by this one. I would never recommend this as a first Grady Hendrix book.
wow, i’ve never been so early :D thanks for all you’re lovely videos elliot, i always watching them while getting ready for work (like now lol) and they make sure i get a positive start to my day 💕
This book was so weird, but in the end I liked it, even if at times it was so weird I asked myself the same question “what the hell am I reading?”. It was a bit like a disaster that you can’t look away from for me, I couldn’t put it down 😂 😅 I really liked Southern Bookclub’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, it was quite different in vibes but still a weird mix of funny and horror, and a lot of serious relationship and societal themes.
This was like, the only bad book I read last year and listening to your review is giving me flashbacks 🤣🤣
it's books like this that make me wary of picking up a random book. >
1.) "Deus ex machina" 2.) How did Mark fix up the house with only one arm ?
lmao oh god. I started with my best friends exorcisms which was so nostolgic teen girl for me very late 89s early 90s..was fun. then i moved onto the southern womans book clubs guide to killing vampires or whatever the heck that title is.. it was good.. final girls support group was also good.. but this one was a roller coaster..i just finished it last week. it was strange and choatic but I still did enjoy it, now i just have to laugh about all the zaniness.
I've lived in the South my whole life, and never heard that phrase.
I love this review. I read this book a while ago and definitely agree that the title and how it was marketed just don’t fit the story itself. Considering the amount of times I went ‘WTF is this!?’ while reading it makes me agree with this video 100%. I’m glad I read it though. It certainly was entertaining 😂 and this video was the cherry on the cake!
This book came off my TBR so fast 😂
And here I was so excited to have this book published this month in my country xD
This was hilarious. I've watched other videos reviewing this book but I don't recall them presenting it like this (for different reasons)... I'm still learning on how to "read" reviews. I do like it when people go more in depth about why they like or dislike a book. So yeah, this was fun to watch.
So maybe because of the underlying grief (my mom died in 2020 so I related hard to that) I really loved this book but I really enjoyed watching this review 😂🤣
Can I say that this and your Fourth Wing review are stand-out videos, I tell you what XD I've only read We Sold Our Souls which I really enjoyed! It's about a metal guitarist who missed her chance at stardom and is working at Best Western and suddenly all her old bandmates are getting killed off mysteriously. I loved all the music references and I identified so hard with the main character lol. I don't know if I will read any more of Grady's books but We Sold Our Souls was a good time.
I read HORRORSTÖR last year and that was enough Grady Hendrix for me 😆
The phrase is usually said like, "Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezey." Meaning this task will be as easy as squeezing a lemon.
When you said "its more ...a puppet" i thought.. uh oh.
It was definitely an interesting book! 😂 That ending! Lol
The book worked because of the narrator imo. Lol. I mean, honestly, it was insane. And Barb....OMCheese...Barb was a hoot and a half. Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is good, but it's really sad, too.
I knew someone that swore by this author as a horrorfan and writer. I was beyond disappointed when I actually read a few of them.
I’ve only read My Best Friend’s Exorcism and loved it mostly because Grady Hendrix is from my home state and the story did a great job of demonstrating the experience of living in said state.
I’ve read My Best Friend’s Exorcism, it started really well and then jumped the shark. I did finish it. This book I DNF’d at the point of Mark’s flashback.
🤣 your rant reviews are great. I kind of want to read this book now though, it sounds trippy.
Sis everything I was thinking your saying it 😂 WTF DID WE READ
PS the authors notes I felt them words in my soul I started crying 😢
I DNF’d it and you have only confirmed that I made the right decision. 😂
I really love the concepts that Grady Hendricks has. Like the synopsis always sounds clever and interesting. When you read it, it turns into everything you did NOT expect, but not in a good way. I wish Hendricks was for me but two books, and now this break down has unfortunately turned me away from their books.
This is how I feel about Grady Hendrix. I close the book and I’m like “Wtf did I just read” I read two of his books and just realize it’s not for me 😂
I loved this book but I definitely get why it’s not for everyone lol
Whew dodged a bullet by not getting this one.
Yes, all Grady Hendrix are bonkers and get weird
I tried to read The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and could not make it through. I'm not a graphic horror/violence fan. I'm more of a creepy vibes/spooky mystery fan. I could not put the book down for the first half because I found it entertaining, but those BAM! out of nowhere moments of extremely icky violent/gross descriptions were not my cup of tea. Kudos to the author for being so effective in their descriptions to make the reader's skin crawl, but it always felt at odds with the silly/campy tone of the premise.
How to sell a haunted house is probably the wakiest i've read from Hendrix. I hate pupkin. the audiobook was painful. I loved Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and My Best Friend's Exorcism. Especially the latter, for the 80s vibes.
Coincidentally, I am reading my first Grady Hendrix novel as well... The Final Girl Support Group, a story about a group of ladies that survived mass murderers, which bear a strong resemblance to famous slasher movies. This is a story about what comes after.
I read The Final Girl Support Group by him, and was very disappointed. It was such a cool concept that is ruined by following the wrong character. Like, the one character you could have removed, and it would not have changed the story.
The only 2 i've read by him are like this. I read this one and the Horrostor, which was a haunted ikea that had similar wierdness but much shorter.
Yikes … 😂 I haven’t read this thank goodness
Two things:
1) glad id already dnf'd that book months ago
2) glad youtube randomly suggested this video to me cause had i kept reading i would have been so pissed.
If you wanna try another book by him, read The Southern Bookclub's Guide to Slaying Vampires. I did read my Best Friend's Exorcism years ago. I did like it but dont remember much. This video was hilarious!! Im down from having surgery a few weeks ago and needed this laugh.
Horror store is another weird ride by Grady Hendrix.
I read the final girl support group and it was so bad i knew I would never read anything else by the author. You now have confirmed me i made the right decision 😂
My granpappi used to say easy peasy slick and greasy everytime we went hunting
As a Southerner, I can confirm I have never once heard that phrase.
Don't get me wrong, we have some sayings, but that's definitely not one of them.
I'm also cracking up because just when I think this book can't get any worse, you go into another chapter.
I've read three of his books so far. I enjoyed them all, but my favorite book of his is My Best Friend's Exorcism followed closely by The Final Girl Support Group.
I’ve read 2 of his books and decided that was enough for me. Didn’t care for either one. I was sooo disappointed, especially because I love all his covers!
OMG THANK YOU FOR WARNING ABOUT THE EYE. I definitely skipped. That’s gonna be a hell nah from me dawg.
I've read The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix. It has satirical elements, too, but it's a pretty serious book with serious topics. I wouldn't call it a parody, so much as I would say it's a bit subversive, and sometimes reveals that subversiveness through humor.
Having the diner photo instead of luna at the end 😂🤌
The title of this video is definitely how I felt the ENTIRE time I was reading this book! Not my favorite from this author 🙁
Barb the bladder lady💀
I read this, as my 1st Hendrix, last year on Libby and almost dnf'd it within 30 pages. But then I thought well, I was a teen in the 80s and this book is just as cheesy and silly as many of the horror movies I watched back then, so I decided to continue!
Book wasn't the greatest, and I figured out the plot twists early on, but it's ok if you want a fluffy read. Read Horrorstor & Final Girls and they were just ok, but heard the Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is one of his better reads, so may try that at some point.
“I liked the first 30-40% and then the rest…” Yes. That sums up Grady Hendrix in a nutshell.
You didn't say "Hello, friends" 😫
Elliot Brooks on a sugar rush. Funny. Beautiful show. Thank you.
This sounds…wild
The most confusing part of this book for me is how it is not talked about more? This seems insane.
G H is just different. Sometimes his weirdness works and other times...
Def reading this after I finish VE Schwab!!
Well, wondering what kind of unfinished business a five-year-old could have was a fun little rabbit hole, thank you very much for that. 😂
This sounds like an absolute mess😅
Ngl I really like this editing on this video
I had the same reaction to My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. There were weird plot elements that popped up and I'd go back and re-read pages before because I'm like, "Did I miss something?"
This book sounds bonkers haha
I've seen a fair number of people who like Grady Hendrix say this is one of his weaker books. I've only read his short story Ankle Snatcher, which I thought was brilliant.
I loved this book but it’s right up my alley 😂
It sounds very similar to Slappy from goosebumps books lol