I wasn't all that surprised by the twist. After all, this is fundamentally a story about a guy going to insane lengths to control a woman's choices and body even after she dies.
@@Homeostasisisyeah that was a big clue, I feel there could have been a bit of more ambiguity if they had put something like "oh no she didn't signed that, was a hospital mess up" but we were told her brother is a nurse or something enough involved to know that wasn't a mistake bit planned
This is definitively one of the better Extreme Horror books I've come across so far. It has the restraint to not stray too far away from its core idea of a motel where necrophilia is legal, the part in Yamamoto's room goes a little off the rails but it gives the protagonist something to fear if he fails beyond just being kicked out of the motel, and yeah, the fact that Ellis was an abusive bastard would've work better as a twist, but overall the novel is miles better than things like _Babies in a Blender_ and what not
You and Jules Dapper are my favorite disturbing book readers. You do things differently from each other and are both hilarious and your reactions are priceless.
I was hoping this would be a cute love story about a zombie/ghost and their lover meeting at a hotel but then I remembered "Morpho doesn't cover books like that" and I got sad
6:30 "pretty, but not beautiful" is a strange preference, open to misinterpretation, AND a weird unnecessary dunk on his late wife... "scars okay"... guys I'm starting to think the main character of this extreme fiction is not a nice person
I actually love the way they played with the concept of consent. Because it is so easy to demonize a lot of the patrons at the motel because of what they are doing, we inherently think of necrophilia is bad (for obvious reasons) but we also remember that the bodies in the motel consented to being used in that way. Then on the flip side we see the character who has been demonizing the active necrophilia the entire time, not only partaking in it, but arguably partaking in a worst version of it, because the corpse that he assaulted did not consent to it. It brings in the question which ones worse I appreciate when people play with taboos and I do think this could’ve been done differently and better but it is fun to think about who is really morally wrong. (Almost everyone in the book as fucked though Jesus Christ)
It's not really that good of a conversation if you think about the fact of what makes consent consent is also it being freely given _and_ easily retractable. A corpse can't take back consent, it can't decide it doesn't want to engage with something anymore, nor can it give it enthusiastically and choose to continue. It sincerely works so much better as a story about abuse that has necrophilia and necroromanticsm as a backing for the concept of a man wanting full control of a woman, rather than a conversation about consent or "who's the real villain" sort of thing. They're all equally evil as each other. It's not really _playing_ with a taboo, and if you believe it is I am a little bit worried about what you're actually getting out of it. It's just using it to illustrate a story about abuse, which is incredibly common. You wouldn't say Lolita plays with taboos, would you?
This sounds like a good concept that was executed better than most splatterpunk works, but I agree with you about the ending - just commit to the bleakness, we're already in a world with necro motels!
This is a pretty strong splatterpunk entry, I liked that it genuinely raised questions about ethics and consent. Ellis is so terribly loathsome!!! He's the worst!!!
(ending spoilers) the ending is extremely timely when "your body my choice" is going around - even in death, Emeley's agency was stolen and her body turned into a pawn
Long time lurker finally committing to a comment- I can confidently say that I don’t like reading books of this genre, but I really like listening to your summary/analysis. This is such an interesting concept for an extreme horror novel and it’s made so much more palatable through the humor and tone you present it with. I agree w/ your assessment of the ending, though, and it’s almost MORE of a slap in the face that Veronica and Chris get revenge when Emeley herself, MUCH more personally wronged by Ellis, does not 😅another great video!!
If this is the first video by Morpho you watch, I can't stress this ennough, *DON'T WATCH THE PREVIOUS ONES* seriously, this book is among the better ones they've reviewed. You will now have a good time
Adding to my to read list. This thing sounds surprisingly solid! Also, YES, I guessed the twist! Also, it with the plot revolving around a woman trying to control the use of her body against their husband's wishes, this story REALLY feels like it is supposed to be seen as an allegory on abortion and a commentary against misogyny. You could have a solid debate about if using this as such an allegory is fitting, but I do think I know why the writer thought it was a good idea. Namely when people talk out against abortion they present it as a very moral thing and that they are against it for very good reasons like caring about the unborn child, BUT when you actually look into the end result of their stance it's clear they weren't really caring about the child at all and just wanted to control people and punch down on people for controlling their own bodies. This kind of does a like wise thing. It takes a concept that seems to be blatantly wrong, then has the main guy against it and makes his actions seem pure, but as you look into his reasoning you realize more and more, no, he's actually a bad guy, what he is doing isn't pure at all, and he's actually the real bad guy of the story. It's an interesting way to make the point on abortion and makes the book rather smart.
the madgascar characters being used as character stand ins took me the fuck out fjdbfdmn next time u do one of these vids you should use the dreamworks trolls cast bc i think itd be rlly funny
The way you described it was amazing. It wasn't trash it was very niche and I accept it. But your memes and editing are so helpful in digesting the story itself so thank you as always
I can't believe I was lucky enough to find this channel considering how little it would've taken for the universe to hide it from me. Every video is better than the last and Morpho's yapping is always objectively correct 💙
You know what, I'll just say it: pretty interesting premise for an extreme horror novel actually. I mean you gotta give the author points for creativity.
yeah, i definitely agree on that ending. would have been a lot more unsettling if they just left it at the deal with ellis and emiley or however tf you spell that name. sidebar, i've watched npmd so many times, i can just *hear* 10:09, even without the audio 😭
You should definitely try Crypt of the Moon Spider too when you’re free. Got a pretty interesting premise about a girl going to the moon to fix her depression.
I usually play these videos in the background so i wasn't really looking at the madgascar avatars for the characters. On instinct, as i was listening, I visualised Ellis as Jimmy from Mouthwashing. So imagine my surprise when the twist happens. In retrospect they're really similar, both in the way they see women and how they justify their actions like they're righting a wrong.
I've been meaning to read this book for a while I kept seeing it popping up it sounds pretty good. Also did you get a new mic? this video sounds crisp.
As someone that lived in the Texas desert for a long time, and whose family is from there...yeah, this is probably the most realistic place for one of these motels to be in.
My mom works in hospice, has since I was very young, so Linette's character made my heart ache. All she wanted was to talk to her husband again, and the only way she felt she could was to project her sorrow onto the corpses of men who looked like him. Honestly, if the author wanted to expand on this universe and write a more toned-down, somber story from Linette's perspective, I'd LOVE to read it.
Im really interested in reading this book as well!! Gotta save this video for when im done >^) I did just read a book called Eyes are the best part! I wouldn't really call it an extreme book but would love to hear you talk about it some day! Can't wait to see what you have planned next, god speed 🤡🫶
I was thinking, I actually love playlists for books...but then I realized, I like making my own, because IMO most authors have shitty taste in music :X
My stupid ass didn't think the scar thing was a red flag. There's many reasons someone would have scars (accidental injuries, surgery, etc), so DV didn't occur to me
I wasn't all that surprised by the twist. After all, this is fundamentally a story about a guy going to insane lengths to control a woman's choices and body even after she dies.
THANK YOU, I instantly started picking up that if anything she had been trying to escape HIM
honestly i clocked it as soon as we established that she donated her body without telling him
i didn’t really understand that until i saw this comment 😭
@@Homeostasisisyeah that was a big clue, I feel there could have been a bit of more ambiguity if they had put something like "oh no she didn't signed that, was a hospital mess up" but we were told her brother is a nurse or something enough involved to know that wasn't a mistake bit planned
The title lowkey made this book sound like some kinda beautiful novel. This shi is NOT that oh my god.
Yeah, I honestly thought it was gonna be a story about a spirit not wanting to move on because they fell in love with someone still alive.
i thought it was like the actual river styx and it was the ghosts instead of the bodies. boy was i wrong.
it sounded like ghost love story but NOOOOO [but also it's morpho there's no such thing as a normal book here
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This is definitively one of the better Extreme Horror books I've come across so far. It has the restraint to not stray too far away from its core idea of a motel where necrophilia is legal, the part in Yamamoto's room goes a little off the rails but it gives the protagonist something to fear if he fails beyond just being kicked out of the motel, and yeah, the fact that Ellis was an abusive bastard would've work better as a twist, but overall the novel is miles better than things like _Babies in a Blender_ and what not
i did see the plot twist coming the moment he said "scars okay" from the list of things he wanted and that she had to be "pretty but not beautiful"
You and Jules Dapper are my favorite disturbing book readers. You do things differently from each other and are both hilarious and your reactions are priceless.
The juxtaposition of what Morpho sounds like versus what she? He? Sounds like is hilarious…I fkn love this channel
I need jules to upload sooo much more
@@TheRealRunningwolf1980 agreed!
@gaychelray oh I know I would love that but it's always worth the wait!!
They are my favorites too!!
I was hoping this would be a cute love story about a zombie/ghost and their lover meeting at a hotel but then I remembered "Morpho doesn't cover books like that" and I got sad
6:30 "pretty, but not beautiful" is a strange preference, open to misinterpretation, AND a weird unnecessary dunk on his late wife... "scars okay"... guys I'm starting to think the main character of this extreme fiction is not a nice person
I actually love the way they played with the concept of consent. Because it is so easy to demonize a lot of the patrons at the motel because of what they are doing, we inherently think of necrophilia is bad (for obvious reasons) but we also remember that the bodies in the motel consented to being used in that way. Then on the flip side we see the character who has been demonizing the active necrophilia the entire time, not only partaking in it, but arguably partaking in a worst version of it, because the corpse that he assaulted did not consent to it. It brings in the question which ones worse I appreciate when people play with taboos and I do think this could’ve been done differently and better but it is fun to think about who is really morally wrong. (Almost everyone in the book as fucked though Jesus Christ)
It's not really that good of a conversation if you think about the fact of what makes consent consent is also it being freely given _and_ easily retractable. A corpse can't take back consent, it can't decide it doesn't want to engage with something anymore, nor can it give it enthusiastically and choose to continue. It sincerely works so much better as a story about abuse that has necrophilia and necroromanticsm as a backing for the concept of a man wanting full control of a woman, rather than a conversation about consent or "who's the real villain" sort of thing. They're all equally evil as each other.
It's not really _playing_ with a taboo, and if you believe it is I am a little bit worried about what you're actually getting out of it. It's just using it to illustrate a story about abuse, which is incredibly common. You wouldn't say Lolita plays with taboos, would you?
This sounds like a good concept that was executed better than most splatterpunk works, but I agree with you about the ending - just commit to the bleakness, we're already in a world with necro motels!
This is a pretty strong splatterpunk entry, I liked that it genuinely raised questions about ethics and consent. Ellis is so terribly loathsome!!! He's the worst!!!
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if morpho has 100 fans im one of then
if morpho has 1 fan i am that fan
if morpho has no fans i am dead 🙏
And if you’re dead, some enterprising weirdos will want to fuck you.
Me too
(ending spoilers)
the ending is extremely timely when "your body my choice" is going around - even in death, Emeley's agency was stolen and her body turned into a pawn
Her body was always his. Before and now after death.
I love the post book yap session KEEP DOING THEM.
I feel the need to ask who even comes up with book ideas like this 😭
Smurfs…I’m pretty sure it was the smurfs 🤷🏽
Someone probably read George RR Martin shortstory about a zombie brothel and thought "but what if they didn't move at all?"
Only 40 seconds in and I'm like, "Whyyyyyyyyyy?"
How bad can it be? EDIT: OH OKAY I SEE
Long time lurker finally committing to a comment- I can confidently say that I don’t like reading books of this genre, but I really like listening to your summary/analysis. This is such an interesting concept for an extreme horror novel and it’s made so much more palatable through the humor and tone you present it with. I agree w/ your assessment of the ending, though, and it’s almost MORE of a slap in the face that Veronica and Chris get revenge when Emeley herself, MUCH more personally wronged by Ellis, does not 😅another great video!!
Using pictures of Madagascar characters to represent the characters in this book is genius and hilarious
Guys- I thought this was going to be a romance in a supernatural ghost hotel wtf did I just watch 😭
If this is the first video by Morpho you watch, I can't stress this ennough, *DON'T WATCH THE PREVIOUS ONES* seriously, this book is among the better ones they've reviewed. You will now have a good time
welcome, definitely watch the previous ones, they're all much worse than this one but morpho makes them funny
Adding to my to read list. This thing sounds surprisingly solid! Also, YES, I guessed the twist! Also, it with the plot revolving around a woman trying to control the use of her body against their husband's wishes, this story REALLY feels like it is supposed to be seen as an allegory on abortion and a commentary against misogyny. You could have a solid debate about if using this as such an allegory is fitting, but I do think I know why the writer thought it was a good idea. Namely when people talk out against abortion they present it as a very moral thing and that they are against it for very good reasons like caring about the unborn child, BUT when you actually look into the end result of their stance it's clear they weren't really caring about the child at all and just wanted to control people and punch down on people for controlling their own bodies. This kind of does a like wise thing. It takes a concept that seems to be blatantly wrong, then has the main guy against it and makes his actions seem pure, but as you look into his reasoning you realize more and more, no, he's actually a bad guy, what he is doing isn't pure at all, and he's actually the real bad guy of the story. It's an interesting way to make the point on abortion and makes the book rather smart.
you deliver my some of my favorite bedtime stories. thanks for the blessing.
the madgascar characters being used as character stand ins took me the fuck out fjdbfdmn
next time u do one of these vids you should use the dreamworks trolls cast bc i think itd be rlly funny
Whenever i see morpho has uploaded again im like "woaw :3"
The way you described it was amazing. It wasn't trash it was very niche and I accept it. But your memes and editing are so helpful in digesting the story itself so thank you as always
I can't believe I was lucky enough to find this channel considering how little it would've taken for the universe to hide it from me. Every video is better than the last and Morpho's yapping is always objectively correct 💙
You know what, I'll just say it: pretty interesting premise for an extreme horror novel actually. I mean you gotta give the author points for creativity.
If I lose both my sanity and hope for all humanity, it's a true Morpho video.
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The sponsor portion absolutely KILLLLLLLLLED me 😂 so I guess it worked? Guess I better sign before I finish dying…
The way you told the story definitely had me engaged, I was thinking "this might be the best book you've covered" 🌸
Babe, wake up, morpho posted a new video
When you started describing it I thought you meant like ghost hookers which is way cooler
2:11 homestuck jumpscare
yeah, i definitely agree on that ending. would have been a lot more unsettling if they just left it at the deal with ellis and emiley or however tf you spell that name.
sidebar, i've watched npmd so many times, i can just *hear* 10:09, even without the audio 😭
You should definitely try Crypt of the Moon Spider too when you’re free. Got a pretty interesting premise about a girl going to the moon to fix her depression.
I usually play these videos in the background so i wasn't really looking at the madgascar avatars for the characters. On instinct, as i was listening, I visualised Ellis as Jimmy from Mouthwashing. So imagine my surprise when the twist happens. In retrospect they're really similar, both in the way they see women and how they justify their actions like they're righting a wrong.
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You know usually I like to add some witty comment but for the first time I am genuinely speechless. I have nothing I can say. What can I say?
just accept defeat 😔
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I've been meaning to read this book for a while I kept seeing it popping up it sounds pretty good. Also did you get a new mic? this video sounds crisp.
nah i've been using the same mic for months now 😭
@@mainmorpho i must just be dumb then
I love what you do like literally I do keep it up it's really great.
Great video to watch while playing DAtV. It makes me feel really normal!
Man, Ellis made those necrophilles look like saints
9:30 "think about that for a second"
no, thank you
Nothing like some based morpho content
Ellis is like a really freaky James Sunderland
As someone that lived in the Texas desert for a long time, and whose family is from there...yeah, this is probably the most realistic place for one of these motels to be in.
My mom works in hospice, has since I was very young, so Linette's character made my heart ache. All she wanted was to talk to her husband again, and the only way she felt she could was to project her sorrow onto the corpses of men who looked like him. Honestly, if the author wanted to expand on this universe and write a more toned-down, somber story from Linette's perspective, I'd LOVE to read it.
Linette would be a terrible main/pov character
This sounds like a gore book that actually has some focus and restraint, oddly, considering the subject matter.
Im really interested in reading this book as well!! Gotta save this video for when im done >^) I did just read a book called Eyes are the best part! I wouldn't really call it an extreme book but would love to hear you talk about it some day! Can't wait to see what you have planned next, god speed 🤡🫶
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Welp i guess we are going here today
I was thinking, I actually love playlists for books...but then I realized, I like making my own, because IMO most authors have shitty taste in music :X
This reminds me of a movie I seen years ago 🤔 I can’t remember the name of it though 😩
nekromantik?
Lmao Maurice is the mortician😂
Also I'm subscribed now - that longlegs video was amazing
i missed you! your videos r such A TREAT! (i accidentally mashed caps lock but it worx)
💐paying my respects ~
ngl the plot sounds interesting at first
Sorry i got distracted by the ONE homestuck gif i’ve seen on your videos lmaoo
My stupid ass didn't think the scar thing was a red flag. There's many reasons someone would have scars (accidental injuries, surgery, etc), so DV didn't occur to me
Did not think about a c section instead of her self harming due to suicidal tendencies
We love Morpho❤!!!!!!!!
Never read but I like the book. Vanguardic & boundary pushing but not low quality or childish
13:34 Kishido Temma jumpscare
welp you convince me too give it a read in a future I always wanted to try and red a gore book none really caught my interest but this book has👍
For the dead and buried and bricked 😔🤲🥀
love your vids man!
Yippee another upload!
I wish it was about undead monsters falling in love with humans or something instead of well this.
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as soon as ive heard the premisse i knew this would have the siberian movie ending. kinda lame idk
just google'd it and its actually a "A Serbian Film" LMAO SRY
The Asylum's next mockbuster, The Siberian Movie
@@mrs_plinkettI'm cackling irl, also I like your username
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Might I recommend American Rapture by CJ Leede?
THE SNIFFER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (thats you)
Yayyyy i love youre videos
You should really consider reading Blowie.
not now babe, morpho just uploaded a video
You seriously had to use Madagascar characters and ruin my childhood, huh? 😅
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Yay u posted
This is very spuncks dupncs
I think I feel sick now😂
Rest in pp, sickos 😔🥀
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I despise this so much
crazy stuff ye
You holding back the big twist until the big end honestly made the book WAY more interesting, this actually made me do a double take.
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another stolen idea.
for real? 😕
@@mainmorpho as long as they aren't too cold.
from who? I like morpho and want similar content!
@@FionavanDahl the story idea, morpho didn't steal anything.
@@TheJericho1123ah got it, so where is this idea stolen from? obviously I don't want to google "necr_ph_lia hotel"
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