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The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
published: 1971, read: 1/7/25
340 pages, genre: Horror
rating: 8/10, normalized: 7.778/10
0.678σ better than average
1.157σ or 0.936/10 better than average in Horror genre
-0.246σ or -0.169/10 worse than average recommended by Dad
Recommended by: Dad
MY BROTHER HURTS. I SHARE HIS PAIN. I MEET GOD IN HIM.
One of my favorite tropes is "devout man struggling with his faith" and this is that dialed to 11 in a grotesque irreverent masterpiece.
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| 1/7/25 | William Peter Blatty | The Exorcist | 340 | 1971 | Horror | 8.000 | 7.778 | Dad | |
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| 10/18/25 | Shūsaku Endō | Silence | 256 | 1969 | Historical Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | religionapostasy | |
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| 4/9/19 | Stephen King | Full Dark, No Stars | 368 | 2010 | Horror | 8.000 | 7.778 | vile | Dad |
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| 3/20/26 | Roberto Bolaño | Antwerp | 119 | 2002 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | vile | |
| 1/30/26 | William H. Gass | The Tunnel | 652 | 1995 | Fiction | 8.550 | 8.389 | vile | Ben Roth |
| 1/19/26 | Raymond Carver | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | 176 | 1981 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | vile | |
| 11/27/25 | Vladimir Sorokin | Their Four Hearts | 204 | 1994 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | vile | |
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| 10/2/25 | Brett Easton Ellis | The Informers | 240 | 1994 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | vile | |
| 9/16/25 | David Foster Wallace | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | 288 | 1999 | Fiction | 8.633 | 8.481 | vile | |
| 7/30/25 | John Milton | Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition | 512 | 1674 | Poetry | 10.000 | 10.000 | religion | Dasha |
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| 10/30/24 | David Foster Wallace | Infinite Jest | 1451 | 1996 | Fiction | 10.000 | 10.000 | vile | |
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| 8/29/24 | José Saramago | Blindness | 352 | 1995 | Sci-Fi | 7.000 | 6.667 | vile | |
| 8/28/24 | Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake MaddAddam (1) | 400 | 2003 | Sci-Fi | 6.000 | 5.556 | vile | Steg |
| 8/25/24 | George R.R. Martin | A Dance with Dragons A Song of Ice and Fire (5) | 1056 | 2011 | Fantasy | 7.500 | 7.222 | vile | |
| 7/28/24 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Four Ways to Forgiveness Hainish Cycle (7) | 320 | 1995 | Sci-Fi | 5.500 | 5.000 | vile | |
| 6/26/24 | Various | American Short Fiction Vol. 9, Issue 33 | 128 | 2006 | Fiction | 7.625 | 7.361 | vile | |
| 6/24/24 | Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose | 692 | 1980 | Historical Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | religion | |
| 5/30/24 | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | 336 | 1955 | Fiction | 8.213 | 8.014 | vile | |
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| 7/13/23 | Christopher Beuhlman | Between Two Fires | 436 | 2012 | Horror | 6.813 | 6.458 | Nick W. | |
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