hi hi, i am currently doing research for a project and i need to find books that show people being horrific to monsters, specifically if you have any recommendations where people experiment or conduct a study on a ghost/monster/creature/alien maybe?? and test it to its limits. oh! or maybe captured angels, otherworldly creatures being experimented on? doesnt have to be a monster, but it does have to be something superhuman.

i'll also accept any nonfiction, articles, short stories, reddit posts/nosleeps, or essays about this if you know any. also vibe wise, i'm looking for something similar to the new french extremity film "martyrs" (2008) (which is more about people...... but you get it)

thank you !!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭

How do you prefer starting a read - researching a bit about it and the author beforehand or just jumping straight in? I mostly like to go in blind - sometimes not even knowing the general scope of what the book is about, unless i know something about it from a recommendation.

Though for school, we read at least a little about the author before reading any of their work, I find that it helps contextualise and understand better.

But I guess it's different for classics authors and modern day ones, where the stories they write aren't as attached to themselves.

I'm curious to know all of your thoughts on the Haunting Adeline movie adaptation, especially with the controversy online

Just a warning that there may be sensitive topics below, including mentions of non-con.

For those of you who don't know Haunting Adeline, it's a popular dark romance novel on booktok. Now, why is this a controversy, you ask? Personally, I haven't read the book, nor will I ever, but based on the evidence in the book and the snippets shared online, the MMC, Zade Meadows, raped the FMC, Adeline. When readers messaged the author about this, the author replied by saying that "she provoked him first," "she enjoyed it," and "it's just fiction." Not to mention the author herself confirmed it was rape. In the book, the FMC literally said in her inner monologue and I quote, "Is this what trauma does? Knowing you’ve been violated but your body chooses to go numb instead?"

You cannot convince me the FMC wanted it. Some readers still defend MMC's actions, saying "she wanted it," which I think is extremely harmful for SA survivors, and encourages victim blaming. I understand that some survivors use this book to cope, but it doesn't mean that it's a healthy way to cope or that the author has the right to romanticize SA and non-con. That's also an argument they often give, but what about those who AREN'T SA survivors? What's your excuse?

Imagine this getting turned into a movie. A book that glorifies SA. It would be a disaster and completely dangerous. Having this on screens WILL desensitize viewers from this. I am not saying to ban this book by any means, all I'm saying is that an adaptation would be harmful, and that it should be kept as a book. This is only MY OPINION btw. Curious to hear all your thoughts on this!

Just as the tittle says, when was the book you're reading published?

I've come across multiple authors claiming that they feel like if their book is not found and read on the first few weeks or months, it will never be.

So, I've been wondering is that true? I personally couldn't care less about when the book was published, just if I find it interesting to eventually read or immediately pick it up ^^ I think, unless you're someone that tends to read more classics, we do read somewhat recent books, because those are the ones that tend to be everywhere and talked about all the time. Yet, I don't think it prevents us to reach books much later as well ^^

So where do you stand? When was your current read published? I'm currently reading The God and The Gwisin, that was published in 2025. It's fairly recent.

What's one book in your PB library that no one you follow has in theirs? I find it's so rare for me to find a book on here that isn't already in the tbr or interested shelf of at least one other person I'm following, unless it's a non-fiction. So, I'm curious about everyone else. Do you have any books like this? Something that feels almost completely undiscovered?