OVERRATED -- HORROR -- BOOKS!

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  • In celebration of Friday the thirteenth let's have some fun and call out books that we think maybe gets a little more praise than they deserve.
    Top 10 horror books • Top 10 horror books......
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  • @rickwrites2612
    @rickwrites2612 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I've never found King compelling. Maybe I just have a hard time relating to boring small town ppl.

  • @itskyyuuuu
    @itskyyuuuu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I'd love to see your top books/manga that you would love to see adapted into a movie or show. And also too stories that you think would be unadaptable

  • @Digitalhunny
    @Digitalhunny 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    _Not_ a TL/DR! Look, I'm an old widow, I work from home & I don't get a whole lotta socialization in my real life, not as much as I _need_ apparently? So, every now & than I go HAM in a comment section... today is one of these times. You can either take the time to read my comment or just move along & have yourself a nice day/ weekend, Bet. 😂😂
    Not disputing your choices here, at all. I do think we readers miss the _why_ a book, "really gets _into_ us". Our life experiences, our age, personal lives, hopes, dreams, nostalgia, memories, fears, phobias, family & friends _ALL_ of these things unique to us alone, contribute to our reading experiences. Plus, the way the author writes, the tone, the pace & how quickly can we each can tap into the "brain movie". You know, the one we conjure up while we read? If we don't get _something_ in the 1st few pages, that book than, just doesn't work for us.
    BOOK SUGGESTION: As a reader, I'm normally a very strict horror/ thriller genre only. Except, for a few fantasy or nonfiction books way back in my youth. If you'd like a great story, twist ending with a unique writing style this is one that you just might like?
    'My Sister's Keeper' by: Jodi Picoult . If you're worried that it's not gonna be your cup of tea, grab a digital copy from the library? Heads up, it's a little hard to understand _how_ it's written, at 1st. Here's the warning I coulda used prior to my 1st time reading it, "Each font is a different character speaking". I loved the way she blended these people's lives together.
    This book was recommended to me by a fellow "horror" reader as, "a nice change of scenery". Yet, this still has a fast pace because it's just _so dang_ good & hard to put down. Not overly detailed with BS & fluff. It's a great story but, with an interesting & unique execution to it. I'm even willing to bet that you won't guess the ending. I know for me that is _huge_ bonus!
    ps. I don't cry in movies. Needless to say, I've never _ever_ cried while reading a book before. Until, I read THIS. Reading this, I cried ... I ugly cried _so_ hard, reading this book! I had to stop, calm myself down, clean myself up than, attempt to continue. When I read this for the 1sty time my children were young, so maybe that's why it hit me like it did? It was _really_ astonishing & completely unlike _anything_ I'd ever read before or since.
    pss. Don't ever watch the movie! They absolutely destroyed the entire point of the book, especially that ending.
    psss. Ever cuddled up with your partner in bed or in a bubble bath & read out loud? This was something that my late husband & I use to do. The 1st book we ever read was Stephen King's 'The Green Mile'. It was released in small 200 page paperback books, back in 1997. I remember this clearly, because I was so _very_ pregnant with our 1st, when we started. And getting me in & out of the tub was a mission in itself, HaHa! If you have someone in your life make the time to slow down, do these small things together & as often as possible. You'll NEVER forget & they'll _always_ remain some of the best memories for you both. 💕💕

    • @rammelbroadcasting
      @rammelbroadcasting  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Thank you for the wonderful commet! I'll look into the book. I don't cry much either but the road was the one that I just couldn't get through without crying. I'm also a parent so dad stories kinda get me.

  • @tyghe_bright
    @tyghe_bright 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Salem's Lot is definitely over-rated... the short story Jerusalem's Lot is much better, IMO.
    The Haunting of Hill House is also not Shirley Jackson's best--but has been massively influential.
    (Also, Stephen King will blurb anything, if you pay him. His blurbs are not to be trusted.)

    • @lisapoe888
      @lisapoe888 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Salem’s lot was so bad 😅

  • @DreddShootsToIll
    @DreddShootsToIll 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When the "controversy" of the last pick was brought up I thought Frankenstein was coming and I was about to throw hands 😅

  • @fightingfitPT
    @fightingfitPT 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The Haunting Of Hill House is completely overrated, I was hugely dissapointed

    • @wtb2612
      @wtb2612 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Very overrated, but We Have Always Lived in the Castle is excellent. As are Shirley Jackson's short stories.

  • @goon5046
    @goon5046 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I didn’t like The Haunting of Hill House. I was really excited to read this book because everyone talked about how scary it was. It was so boring, insanely disappointing. I think people see themselves as “intellectuals” for saying is good.

  • @brianmelendy1194
    @brianmelendy1194 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Most books by King are over rated. King is over rated in general.

    • @JK-sh8rc
      @JK-sh8rc หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I liked some of his earlier books but then they became very predictable.

    • @lisapoe888
      @lisapoe888 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Some of his books are a joke and his take on” horror” is not my horror

    • @karamarie6781
      @karamarie6781 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hush your mouth!

    • @MrMocha0411
      @MrMocha0411 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      That’s a pretty spicy take. As much as I like king tho I have to agree to an extent. I find most of his books could/should be edited down by 100+ pages and they’d be a lot better for it

    • @nikkivenable73
      @nikkivenable73 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      These are fightin’ words. 😅

  • @frglcnoly
    @frglcnoly 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    wow, this has incredible quality! you are really underrated. Keep it going!

    • @rammelbroadcasting
      @rammelbroadcasting  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks.

    • @frglcnoly
      @frglcnoly 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no problem@@rammelbroadcasting

  • @leedsdevil
    @leedsdevil หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for your opinion(s). I agree with you on one of them. I Am Legend has been 3 great movies, but is one 'good' book. However, you tipped your hand with The Haunting Of Hill House. I'd love your opinion on The Turn Of The Screw.

    • @challst
      @challst 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Wow - I added my comment about The Turn of the Screw before reading this one. I would love to know if I am a minority opinion or in good company.

  • @challst
    @challst 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I just came from your Top 10 and I listed my top 5 (not a focused horror reader) and I admit that I struggled to find a 5th - and picked Salem's Lot!! It was my first Stephen King and maybe I liked it more because I was into the girl who let me borrow her copy! I enjoyed it but have to admit that it WAS fairly formulaic.
    If we are talking about classic ghost stories, I would add 'The Turn of the Screw' as pretty significantly overrated. It does try to delve into the potentially untrustworthy narrator but that is always really hard to pull off. Stephen King referred to it and 'The Haunting of Hill House' as "the only two great works of supernatural works of horror in a century."
    One of the worst books of all time (IMHO) that might be considered horror (though likely horror adjacent) is 'American Psycho'. I only finished it to be able to have a fully informed opinion. It also fails at the untrustworthy narrator.

    • @leedsdevil
      @leedsdevil 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@challst I appeciate your thoughtful opinions, but I do disagree with Turn of the Screw. Henry James pulled off the unreliable narrator quite well; at the end of the novella, you don’t know if the ghosts actually existed outside of the narrator’s imagination. Hill House also never resolves the question, although it strongly implies the malevolence is never-ending, as the story closes with the same description of the house that was used at the start. Undeniably great fiction, and I argue great horror, what happened to Eleanor at the house was literally horrible; what happened to Miles in TTOTS was also literally horrible. They simply were not terrifying.

  • @janaford41
    @janaford41 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The only book I disagreed with you about was Salem's Lot. Although to be honest that might be more sentimentality on my part. It was the first King book I read and I was a kid at the time. So I have special fondness for it. I am Legend and The Haunting of Hill house had solid concepts but they made better films than books. (Far too many films LOL)

  • @tiffanyrich6652
    @tiffanyrich6652 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I agree about Salem’s Lot and Hill House. I DNF’d both books. They didn’t hold my attention. I also DNF’d Hell House. I’m hoping to have a better time with Stir of Echos.

  • @deanwhite890
    @deanwhite890 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How much have you actually read?

  • @inanimatecarbongod
    @inanimatecarbongod 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Disagree with you on I Am Legend, but agree with Haunting of Hill House. It struck me as the sort of thing that's obviously perfectly good but something just didn't click for me somehow. I do like the 1963 film version.

  • @JefferyFrisone
    @JefferyFrisone 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Respectfully disagree. The Haunting of Hill House is a great book, one of the best written in the genre. Read it aloud. Its style is classic, close to that of Hawthorne in many ways. The scenes when Eleanor and Theo are walking in the dark and when she goes to the stream with Theo and Luke are truly brilliant. I know it is not everyone's favorite, maybe because it is too subtle and Eleanor is not a likeable character.

    • @krrrzzzzzz
      @krrrzzzzzz 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      If I have to read an adult book out loud for it to be enjoyable it’s not a good book.

  • @thepagesofsamantha
    @thepagesofsamantha 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    hill house was more of a psychological study and explored the potential for scares and uncomfiness through our own perceptions, rather than it being an actual real in your face jump scare type of horror if that makes sense. it focused on how your mind can play tricks on you and take small things and blow them way out of proportion. I think that's why I found it so unsettling. it's not your typical "horror" book. but still, I enjoyed the video (and agree on salem's lot unfortunately)

  • @cesarcarlos75
    @cesarcarlos75 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I completely agree with I Am Legend.

  • @krrrzzzzzz
    @krrrzzzzzz 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Subscribed for Haunting of hill house being on top of your list! Bonus points for salems lot. Haunting of hill house nearly bored me to death. Actually, the fact that I almost died of boredom was the scariest part of it.

  • @markwebb1040
    @markwebb1040 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have to disagree with you on 'Salem's Lot and I Am Legend. Part of that might be because I read them when I was younger so maybe it's partly nostalgia.
    However, I think you're spot on with The Haunting of Hill House. Nothing really happens and what little does occur is more annoying than frightening.
    To this list I would add Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. I'll never understand the love for this book or movie.
    Someone else mentioned Something Wicked This Way Comes as being overrated and I would have to agree. Having said that, Ray Bradbury really shines as a short story writer. He wrote some fantastic horror stories, several of which were adapted for EC Comics back in the day. I think Stephen King largely shares the same condition in that his short fiction tends to be his strongest. Still, I loved The Stand, 11/22/63, It, The Dead Zone, Carrie.

  • @sshawauthor4583
    @sshawauthor4583 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    1. Agree, 2. Agree 3. I love that one, but I understand everyone has different tastes. 4. Okay, admittedly, it isn’t very scary. However, I don’t think that was its #1 intended purpose. There’s a lot to Hill House and it helped establish so much in the genre, but it is a literary classic character study. You can’t go into it expecting high thrills. And (even though I think the show is good) the Hill House Netflix series made the perception even worse. People watch the show, then pick up the book expecting the same outcome. It’s incredibly misleading for the show to share the name of the book when the only similarities are the house and the character names.
    Anyway, good video. Definitely a discussion starter.

  • @Downhuman74
    @Downhuman74 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The TV movie of 'Salem's Lot is actually better than the novel by a country mile and I'm inclined to think King would actually agree (not unlike The Mist). One of Tobe Hooper's best directorial efforts, too.

  • @dogcreekproject6872
    @dogcreekproject6872 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    100% agree with the haunting of Hill House. I found it high up on several top horror books of all time lists. The book was good, but should not be top ten of all time. Maybe if I was to read it when it first came out, it would be spooky and chilling at that time. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I didn’t watch the movie and the Netflix series first. Good book, I liked it, but I would have enjoyed it more it wasn’t overly hyped.

  • @寿司食べたいな
    @寿司食べたいな 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My fav SK books are rarely celebrated: Misery, Dolores Claiborne.

    • @DreddShootsToIll
      @DreddShootsToIll 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Misery is dope

    • @phaedruslive
      @phaedruslive หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I think the short story collections are his strongest stuff.

    • @leedsdevil
      @leedsdevil หลายเดือนก่อน

      IMHO, his best stories are his non-horror stories, e.g., Dolores Claiborne, The Body, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.

    • @phaedruslive
      @phaedruslive หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@leedsdevil I love mrs. Todd's Shortcuts. Fantastic weird fiction.

    • @alien777
      @alien777 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I hate misery, the misogany is too much for me.

  • @andreiioangabor1027
    @andreiioangabor1027 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For me, Something Wicked This Way Comes feels so overrated. Even you seem to love it, putting it high in your Horror list. But for the life of me, I can't understand why. I really wanted to love it, and nothing connected with me; not the boys, not Charles, not the villain, not the setting, and especially not the themes and the ending. Everything in the book feels like a nonsensical series of events, meant to serve the themes more than anything. The prose is good, but, for me, they actively make the story less scary. Reading this book, I was in a nonstop state of "uh? Ok?". And it’s not like I don’t like middle grade or young adult horror (if this is even considered that). Coraline by Neil Gaiment is still one of my favorite books of all time. I don't know, maybe I'll reread this book one day and it will click with me, but for now, that is the most overrated horror book for me.

  • @kristinaF54
    @kristinaF54 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Salem Lot movie (first one) is so good, better than the book. Equally, the film The Ninth Gate is better than The Dumas Club book it's based on by a long shot.

    • @alien777
      @alien777 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I love the movue ninth gate. Did not know it is Based on a book.

  • @miljanmatovic880
    @miljanmatovic880 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Good video but the list not so much... no Misery? Really? 😂

  • @travelinmason
    @travelinmason 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    ‘Salem’s Lot is the greatest vampire novel since Dracula. GTFO.

    • @angelwalker979
      @angelwalker979 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      haha! I know, I love Salem's Lot!! And I'm sick of these booktubees bashing it! Now, the best vampire book since Dracula? Not sure about THAT one, however, Salem's lot will always be near and dear to me.💜

  • @Adeodatus100
    @Adeodatus100 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Have to admit, I finished Hill House and thought, "... Was that it?" I found We Have Always Lived In The Castle much creepier, because of the weird characters.

  • @gideongrace1977
    @gideongrace1977 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I AGREEE on The Haunting of Hill House. I've tried to read it four times and it's so boring, every time!

  • @jdsantibanez
    @jdsantibanez 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I really liked 'Salem's Lot

    • @lisapoe888
      @lisapoe888 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All I remember reading it as a kid was the scene where his vampire baby brother floats outside his window with a big boner.. classic King😂

  • @james-nw9up
    @james-nw9up หลายเดือนก่อน

    Woo 4th of July

    • @james-nw9up
      @james-nw9up หลายเดือนก่อน

      8:58 !!

  • @digby3618
    @digby3618 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Overrated horror books: literally anything by Stephen King.

  • @johnnythepillpopper1974
    @johnnythepillpopper1974 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Salem’s Lot is a masterpiece, bro

    • @nicholasjones3207
      @nicholasjones3207 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was a let down for me. Found the two shorts related to it to be more effective. After he set it up the vamp action was kinda skipped over real fast.

    • @johnnythepillpopper1974
      @johnnythepillpopper1974 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@nicholasjones3207 you know what I actually put Salem’s Lot over The Shining. Salem’s Lot was the first horror book I read. To me Carrie is overrated. I don’t know how SKing made the jump from Carrie to Salem’s Lot, and then take off from there.

    • @irenelorenzoh
      @irenelorenzoh หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I feel the same. Maybe I have to re-read the Shining, but Salem's Lot was definetly better imo

    • @granthoffman315
      @granthoffman315 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johnnythepillpopper1974 The Shining and Carrie are so far above Salem's Lot! Brutal opinion

    • @johnnythepillpopper1974
      @johnnythepillpopper1974 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@granthoffman315 they are all good

  • @andreasplosky8516
    @andreasplosky8516 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In general, I am not a King fan, but...
    Salem's Lot is a true modern classic Vampire novel. I love it.
    I love "I am legend". I don't think it is overrated at all.
    I don't care if these books should be on a top ten list. That is not up to me. People can do what they want.
    I think the whole "top ten list" nonsense is total BS anyway. I have no top ten lists for anything.