Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel written by American writer William Peter Blatty and published by Harper & Row. The book details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon.
An elderly Jesuit priest named Father Lankester Merrin is leading an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and is studying ancient relics. After discovering a small statue of the demon Pazuzu (an actual ancient Assyrian demon), a series of omens alerts him to a pending confrontation with a powerful evil, which, unknown to the reader at this point, he has battled before in an exorcism in Africa.

The novel was inspired by a 1949 case of supposed demonic possession and exorcism that Blatty heard about while he was a student in the class of 1950 at Georgetown University.

Horror Members are you thinking about reading this?

Appearing in The Exorcist has made Pazuzu a popular demon. He now features in the video game House of Ashes.

The scary stuff really starts about a third of the way through the book. Before that I was mostly thinking that doctors in the 70s were so much more simple and helpful than they are now.

Ah ouija boards, the biggest villain in horror.

Anybody else read this? I really enjoyed it.