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**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:34 pm

Ouroborus · Unfictologist Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 1352

That really just makes me think about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO37Pzbv6Mo

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:42 pm

somniate · Veteran Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 78

Is the hug pile still going on? Can noobies join in? Of the fandom family, are we, like, the annoying younger sibling or sommat?

Ah, what the hell. *joins the hug pile anyway!*

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:57 pm

Lewa

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:05 pm

Soleil · Decorated Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 207

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:08 pm

ravenofroses

so i know we're doing our hugpile thing now, but something has been needling at me for awhile now.

has anyone read the books that the ring movies were based on? they were written by this guy, koji suzuki, and they're....a bit of a mindfuck. not House of Leaves mindfuck, but a mindfuck nonetheless. especially the one titled simply "Loop."

it's about a supercancer that has suddenly turned pandemic, affecting people all over the world for no known reason. the cancer eats away at its hosts at an alarming rate, and virtually everyone who contracts it dies horribly.

enter the main character, whose father has contracted the cancer. he wants to find a cure, figure out how to stop this mess, etc. and long story short, he finds out that the cancer is actually a computer virus. which is sadako from the ring. except sadako existed only in a computer simulation of life, and when scientists mucked around too much with the computer simulation, they brought her virus into the real world.

*shrug* it has little bearing on this whole slendybusiness, but i thought folks here might find it intriguing. i certainly did. i've read it half a dozen times easy, and i'm still chewing on it, psychologically speaking.

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:27 am

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Soleil · Decorated Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 207

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:40 pm

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ravenofroses

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:44 pm

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Pasdio · Veteran Joined: 28 Jan 2011 Posts: 149

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:24 pm

Karuvitomsk

Can you tell me if you notice periods or dots in unusual places?

I'll tell you why later. Wink

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:05 pm

ravenofroses

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:34 pm

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Wolfloner · Veteran Joined: 25 Jan 2011 Posts: 96 Location: Oklahoma

Re: Ring books:

I read Ring and Spiral, and I own Loop but never read that one for some reason. (I think I started it though). I'm glad you clarified because when I read your post I was just like: "that...is not how I remember those books going at all."

But knowing more about Loop, that's oddly...creepy/poignant. And you have convinced me that I need to re-read Ring and Spiral, and actually read Loop this time around.

More EMH-Slendy related: I'm hoping for HoL for my birthday. *crosses fingers*

Edit: @Ravenofroses: you described the illness as a super-cancer. Is it no longer a strain of Smallpox in the 3rd book?

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:52 pm

JohnArgo · Veteran Joined: 28 Jan 2011 Posts: 79

I actually got House of Leaves a little while ago and started reading it recently. I'm on Chapter III and I'm really enjoying it. It is pretty creepy and the creepy part hasn't even begun yet. I just hope I can finish it, because recently, in the past month or two, I haven't been doing so good with long books.

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:25 pm

ravenofroses

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:00 pm

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TheNightmareComplex

For the first time in three years, I have a Valentine.

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:35 am

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