Horns audiobook

Hands down my favorite book from Joe Hill! Well, so far. Some of his books can be a little too long and winding (for me) but this one I actually enjoyed from start to finish. Everything fit and there wasn't a lot of extra nonsense to it. Plus, I liked all of the characters. I was rooting for Iggy. He wasn't perfect but he wasn't gross, either. I wanted him to somehow be happy, even though it looked pretty much impossible from the get-go. If you don't already know, the gist is that this guy named Iggy wakes up from a blackout drunk episode with horns starting to sprout from his head. He quickly learns that everyone who sees him inexplicably tells him their deepest darkest desires, AND he has the ability to nudge people into doing something bad that they secretly want to do.Why?Well, you gotta read the book to find that out.Iggy spends the book between flashbacks and real-time, trying to figure out not only why this horn thing was happening to him but also who killed the love of his life. Everyone assumes Iggy is the one who raped and killed her because of an ugly, very public fight they'd had the night before she died.Maybe Iggy is just absolutely the unluckiest guy in the world when it comes to timing? Or maybe he was the luckiest guy in the world until that night, because he certainly seemed to be blessed with friends, family, and a perfect love until then. At least, that's what he thought.Without giving too much of the plot away, this is mostly the story of a guy finding out whether the Devil is the bad guy or just the guy who punishes bad guys.Now, this may not be for everyone, but it was definitely a big winner for me.Highly Recommeded.

Joe Hill writes from a dark and mysterious place. When I read this book, I was enthralled and uncomfortable at the same time. With every Hill novel I have read, the evil is unconventional and twisted. In this novel, the protagonist connects with the dark forces through mysterious horns growing out of his head . . . and it only gets stranger from there. My guess is that 9 out of 10 readers will have no idea exactly what happened, but there is a good chance that most of them will have enjoyed it (I was one of those).

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This is a fantastic example of book perfection, I have never read anything quite like this one before. It was unputdownable and the quickest I've ever read a book.Iggy Perrish wakes up with a terrible hangover and also finds he has protruding horns. Along with the horns, Iggy has gained powers of dubious value, including the ability to induce those around him to give voice and in some cases action to their darkest thoughts and desires. By touching them, Iggy can also see what dark deeds they have already committed.We learn that, even before the appearance of the horns, Iggy was not an average guy. Not only is he a member of a marginally famous family, he remains the prime suspect in the year old rape and murder of his girlfriend, Merrin. He sets out to solve and avenge using his newfound abilities.It's a very dark, wicked and entertaining read.

4.0 StarsThis is an incredibly vulgar and disgusting book…. Yet, I liked it. The main character is completely unlikable and the rest of the people in the story are somehow worse. I really enjoyed the sinful confessions which made for a fun, voyeuristic reading experience. This book is definitely not for everyone. It's honestly quite offensive at times. However, it's so smart in how it's written that I mostly enjoyed the indulgently inappropriate story. 

Surprisingly good. A clever premise that was executed really brilliantly. I hated the characters, each more loathsome than the next but I loved our MC Ig. But what I loved even more was the non-linear narrative style. Time jumps, POV changes, misleading narratives - all to finally wrap up so nicely in the end.

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rear-view mirror on your way to something better.” Update: Just watched the movie I would give it a 6/10 the book is still way better This book rapidly broke into one of the best books I have ever read. In my small reading life, I have never come across a book that has such a bizarre concept with its own unique premise and an amazing story line that just leaves you…   “I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.” This book was made extra cool by the fact that it was my first buddy read with Liz, Ron & Paul and I had such a fun time discussing it. Seeing the others perspectives really added depth to the story and made the book that much greater. Thanks guys and I really can’t wait for future reads. You Guys Rock!!! “It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.” The book broke bounds in storytelling, it was like putting a puzzle together or being shoved into a new world and you have to navigate through it yourself, it wasn’t hard to get into the story because Joe Hill’s writing has this dark humor to it. Literally the first page we meet Ignatius Martin Perrish (IG) who woke up with horns(Hence the title) .He can apparently see into peoples inner dark secrets, people treat him like a priest in a confession box and so many fucked up things that came with the horns. His life was pretty fucked up before the horns came into play, from losing the love of his life to a heinous murder and him being the main suspect, basically the whole town hates him so you can imagine what the guy was going through… “You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.” As I said before, Hill is talented and Stephen King must be so proud because he created such an amazing book with a concept that just blows my mind just think about it. Sometimes it read like a crime novel in which you were the detective and the need to find answers will have you flipping the pages, trying to piece the puzzle together. It also read like a horror novel *not the kind of monsters under your bed* but the kind where you question your own morality and seeing how messed up being a human being is… In all sense this was just a book that was on its own level and you can’t pinpoint it to a certain genre just like most of Stephen King’s work. You will have this weird feeling that you aren't supposed to be enjoying what is happening to some people or the feeling of killing of some people and the author manged to put the reader into this grey area of " morality ", I loved it. “When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.” Themes and Symbolism shone throughout the book and they were funny, dark, twisted and thought provoking. He managed to incorporate and played around with the concept of religion and his use biblical references with a twist was pure genius.. For Example : “He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.” and Also... “I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.” Really good stuff!!!!It was witty and pushed the envelope a bit and I ate it like my favorite dessert. The characters in themselves were twisted and almost life like, you could see the growth of the main character as he slowly loses his gullibility and realizes that the world is pretty messed up. The side characters were fleshed out to the bone and done so well because we got to see their dark-side which made them essential to the story and I was so happy about that because most side characters are just cardboard cut outs.I went into this book with the intention of comparing father and son but I got out with a new favorite author, who can write a story like no one I have ever read. I am so happy that I decided to read this and I can’t wait to read his other works. What The Heck are you reading this for, get of your ass and read this god damn book!!!! P.S. This was one of the most quotable books I have ever read!!! I can't wait to see the movie adaptation. Also check out his graphic novel Locke and Key :) Thanks For Reading Guys and Happy Reading!!!

4.5 StarsWhen people saw me reading this they would ask if it was "any good." To say that this was good would be a massive understatement. It was supremely good. It was deliciously good. It was piss-your-pants good. It was leave-the-lights-on-all-night good. Yeah, it rocked! I was haunted, I was chilled, I was tingled, I was addicted. Putting the book down, even for a moment, was a hardship. Hill wrote about a psychopath that was so real, so disturbing, so terrifying, that I just wanted to peel off my own skin and run as fast as I could in the opposite direction. Dude, he was scary !! Looking forward to getting my hands on more by Hill...say, around Halloween? Mwahahahahaha.P.S. I've never done this before, but I must comment on the paper quality of the hardback. It was sublime! If paper can be described as buttery then this was some buttery paper. Awesome.(First Reads Win)

Ig Periš, 26-godišnji mladić koji krade Bogu dane posle tragedije koja ga je zadesila, budi se jednog jutra mamuran, bez sećanja na prethodnu noć, sa rogovima na glavi. Vrlo brzo uviđa da rogovi nisu samo rožnati izraštaji, već da zahvaljujući njima može da sazna najgrešnije misli ljudi oko sebe, kao i da utiče na njihove postupke. Ig Periš postaje vrsni poznavalac "univerzalnog jezika - jezika greha"."Rogovi" je drugi Hilov roman koji sam bila u prilici da pročitam (prvi je bio "Kutija u obliku srca") i bogami Hil je poprilično napredovao, primećuje se zrelost u njegovom pisanju. Rečenice su daleko konkretnije i sadržajnije.U ovom romanu, autor na originalan i veoma maštovit način obrađuje grešnu stranu ljudske prirode. Hilu se ne može osporiti kreativnost i veliki talenat, karakterizacija likova je na veoma visokom nivou, radnja neusiljeno teče, a pored toga on u svoje romane unosi i određenu dozu zabave, pa su "Rogovi" roman koji se brzo čita, u kome nema stagnacije i koji uvlači čitaoca u čudnovati svet Iga Periša.Ocena:4.5/5

I had high expectations for this book.It completely blew those expectations out of the water!This review might end up as a bunch of disjointed thoughts, because I'm having trouble organizing exactly how I felt. Warning: The beginning of this story is slightly soul-crushing. This book doesn't put a lot of faith in humanity, at least not in the beginning (I won't disclose anything about the end). As long as you don't take that aspect of it too seriously, it can be so good.The setting was superbly visualized; a small town, lovely and charming on the outside and marred by sin on the inside. The character development was on point. There was so much depth. I loved Ig as the anti-hero. When he felt rage, I felt rage. And there was a lot of rage. This book was relentless in terms of its emotional pull on the reader. It dragged me through so many disparate feelings, I felt like I'd nearly been whiplashed. But it was so worth it.I can see why some people didn't like this as much as others did. The middle isn't super action-packed, and focuses mostly on characters' flashbacks, but I loved Joe Hill's expressive writing style. He really knows how to get into his characters' heads and expose their most reserved and unrefined thoughts. (view spoiler)[Lee Tourneau's thoughts (hide spoiler)] made my skin crawl.It was dark and raw and vengeful. Absolutely gripping and so unconventional. I'm so glad I finally read something by Joe Hill, and I'm even more glad that I loved it. I will definitely be reading more of his books in the future!

As is the usual outcome, the book went leaps and bounds beyond the movie. When Ig awakens after a heavy night of drinking to forget his lover's death, he finds himself submerged in a brand new hell. As he searches for the truth about her murder, he finds out that devils walk amongst us... and sometimes, they're the good guys.

This book was psychotic, sad, humorous, mysterious, and did I say psychotic? Imagine waking up with a pair of horns growing out of your head and every person you encounter suddenly has a compulsion to tell you their darkest thoughts and actions. Twilight Zone is a kid's show compared to this!After pissing his pants, the main character: Ig decides to make the best of this unbelievable situation. The love of his life was murdered and he didn't do it. But lucky for him, he can find out who did. Process of elimination...Ig's got a whole bunch of ugly to get through. Joe Hill's writing engaged me from the first chapter. I mean, I couldn't believe what I was reading but I loved it! The beginning is incredibly dark, the middle is a lot of flashback content (some helpful but most was very long-winded and unnecessary IMO), and the end is a fast ride on the highway to hell...literally. Horns was a great horror novel that I enjoyed very much. It had its highs and lows but I would definitely recommend it to fans of the genre. It has been adapted to film and TGIF because I'm watching it this weekend!My favorite quote:"You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know."8/23/2016 Movie Review:I finished reading the book on a Friday and ended up watching the movie that same Friday. I just couldn't wait. On the one hand, my excitement to watch this film was 100%...obviously. But when you're that high, there's nowhere to go but down. I liked the movie but not nearly as much as the book. That's no surprise to my fellow readers though. It was a decent adaptation and it was definitely worth the time in my opinion. I'm glad I watched it. (view spoiler)[I thought the villain's death scene at the end would never end. I mean, really? How long does it take a guy to die? (hide spoiler)]["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

This is one hell of a fun novel. Let me get rid of all the side stuff first... I'm reading this because I respect Joe Hill on his own merits and it's far from the first novel I've read of his. That being said, EVEN IF it wasn't Joe Hill, I had a fantastic time reading this!Let's take the whole devil trope and turn it into a body/psychological horror novel, shall we? But let's turn away from the outside agency angle. :) Add a bit of the Lucifer tv show angle, add a few horns on Ig's head and the inability for anyone to quite remember that they had just been talking to an apparent demon or that they just spilled all their most horrible thoughts to the guy, and run with this.This is fantastically sick. Difficult. Pleasurable, even. In the, oh god, everyone really thinks THIS of me already, why don't I give them something to REALLY munch on kind of way. :)But then the novel became something a lot deeper when we got into the flashbacks and the love story. We get into the heads of the people who did him some serious harm thanks to a bit of touch-telepathy flashback power going on as Ig turns into a demon. The reveals hinted at only get more twisted and allegory-ish as we move on, but you know what I like best about this?The devil never gets to be the hero. We WANT him to be the hero, tho, and that's what's really great about this.So two thumbs WAY up. :) I never once got bored. I FELT something for these characters. :)And no, I'm probably not going to watch the movie made from this. I don't want to spoil my very positive reaction. :)

"Please allow me to introduce myselfI'm a man of wealth and tasteI've been around for a long, long years" Wow! That's three full novels and three five star ratings for Joe Hill I've awarded. This one was hot stuff! Original and highly creative. I'd be hard pressed to pick my favourite out of this and NOS4R2, which by the way was freaking awesome. If you like your villains then you go with Charlie Manx in NOS4R2 but if you like your heroes (with a bit of devil in them) then it's Horns all the way.So what's this one all about? The fine line between spoilers and giving you a taste and the desire to read it. I'm sure I've crossed the line once or twice in my reviews and I'm sure I've got an eternity in fiery damnation to look forward to as a result. So here we go...Hill does what he does in a number of his stories. Take a ridiculous concept and mesh this with fantastic characters that has you buying in from the off.  He's given us a man who gets trapped on a cloud and a boy who turns into a giant praying mantis.  In this one he doesn't disappoint with an outlandish and enthralling tale of revenge. As we know, it's a dish best served hot. "Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up." Its the anniversary of the murder of Ig Perrish's girlfriend and he wakes up with the Mac Daddy of all hangovers to find he's sprouted a set of horns. As you can probably guess, these aren't your ordinary set of horns. Our protagonist in chief soon discovers these prongs compel those around him to reveal their darkest thoughts, and they seek his blessing to do dastardly things. The Devil in us all is made very obvious, a major theme in this novel.Hill crafts one fiery tale that is compact, emotional, and darkly fantastic.  The prose are pretty no-nonsense but he has that rhythm and flow that his dad (Stephen King) is famous for. It's a very easy, yet compelling read.  The pacing is on point and for this author, it's a quick read that packs one hell of a punch. There's one scene involving a letter that pulled seriously on my cold black heart. That's all I'm saying as I don't want to spoil anything. "When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier." The only negative I could come up with is that flashbacks provide a huge part of the narrative. Sometimes this can slow down the pacing a tad. Personally I didn't mind as it added a lot of heart to the proceedings.Anyway, if you like horror, dark fantasy or a thriller that's a little bit out there, give this a try. A straight five stars. I highly recommend it. And so does Lucifer himself!

I enjoyed this way too much. Joe Hill seems to do no wrong. He really is as awesome as his dad. Maybe better. I need to read more of his work to make that determination. I actually liked this better than NOS4A2, which is surprising as I gave that one 5 stars. NOS4A2 seemed a bit drawn out and could have benefited from a bit of editing. Horns seemed have a tighter narrative. I will have to agree that the beginning with all of its social commentary was definitely a blast. I wish I could have seen a bit more of that, but I understand why that was dropped for a more traditional revenge story. It takes place in a small town, so naturally you run out of juicy gossip. Also it would have gotten a bit fruitless after a while. Joe did a great job blending the realistic with the fantastic. Ig's powers had fair limits, which helped without being overwhelming powerful. His origin story does come extremely late into the book, but with the heavy use of flashbacks all throughout it doesn't seem out of place. I often found myself forgetting about the existence of the supernatural element then was pleasantly reminded. I NEED to see the movie now. Partially because the book was so awesome. Partially because of Daniel Radcliffe. Max Minghella is cool too.