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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Baird College Mendenhall echoes with the footsteps of the last home-bound students heading off for Thanksgiving break, and Robin Stone swears she can feel the creepy, hundred-year-old residence hall breathe a sigh of relief for its long-awaited solitude. Or perhaps it's only gathering itself for the coming weekend.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;As a massive storm dumps rain on the isolated campus, four other lonely students reveal themselves: Patrick, a handsome jock; Lisa, a manipulative tease; Cain, a brooding musician; and finally Martin, a scholarly eccentric. Each has forsaken a long weekend at home for their own secret reasons.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The five unlikely companions establish a tentative rapport, but they soon become aware of a sixth presence disturbing the ominous silence that pervades the building. Are they the victims of a simple college prank taken way too far, or is the unusual energy evidence of something genuine---and intent on using the five students for its own terrifying ends? It's only Thursday afternoon, and they have three long days and dark nights before the rest of the world returns to find out what's become of them. But for now it's just the darkness keeping company with five students nobody wants and no one will miss.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[A simple ghost story stretched rather too long and with a bit too much emo for my tastes. Robin is a college student with angst—do you hear me? ANGST—who stays in her dorm over Thanksgiving instead of going home to her crazy (and ANGST-causing!) mom. She meets four other outcast-types, and then ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13765786">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff <br/>Mass Market Paperback - October 30, 2007 <br/>4 Stars <br/>  <br/>Robin Stone is a troubled young woman. Her means of escape from her unbalanced mother was by running away to college paid with guilt money from her absentee father. <br/>Still, she remains...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44905711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Harrowing&quot; by Alexandra Sokoloff is about a group of five misfit college students who come together one Thanksgiving weekend when they each decide, separately, to stay on campus rather than to go home for the holiday. The story really takes off when one of the five, Lisa, finds a Ouij...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63540186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the things that I've noticed about many good books is that the first chapter gets overlooked in the revision process in favor of getting the rest nearly perfect.  <br/><br/>That was the case here with this book.  The beginning felt clunky.  I honestly felt that the book should have started ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77931925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Harrowing is a basic haunting tale, but Sokoloff’s dreamed up an origin tale that draws from a source I haven’t really seen utilized before. I was impressed with her fresh take on a familiar template, and pleased that she managed to scare me.&quot;<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://superfastreader.com/the-harrowing-by-alexandra-sokoloff.htm" title="http://superfastreader.com/the-harrowing-by-alexandra-sokoloff.htm">http://superfastreader.com/the-harrowing...</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3205494">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Harrowing is marketed as 'Scream meets The Exorcist' and I'd say that is a fair description. This is the debut novel of an author who's also a screenwriter, and it shows. This book reads like a movie; it's scary, jumpy, spine-chilling and keeps you on the edge of your seat. It's well written and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71051669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was the perfect spooky ghost haunting book to kick off the Autumn Season.  The story's plot really isn't that original but it was well written, creepy, and totally kept me interested the whole way through. I definitely stayed up way to late reading it. I love to scare myself silly.<br/><br/>Her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69208286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe I finished this in one day!  A very quick read indeed!  I liked it for the most part...there were a few irritations.  The main ones were how many &quot;fake&quot; scares there were.  The character sees something and realizes it's a coatrack or their own reflection...etc.  It is writt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63502593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A page turner - Sokoloff does a good job of building the suspense throughout the book. I read it in one sitting.  In brief, 5 students, all reluctant to go home for various reasons, remain in an appropriately old and atmospheric dorm over the Thanksgiving holidays.  A night in the commons room toget...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61562168">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not harrowing enough.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Harrowing is Alexandra Sokoloff’s first novel and it is an awesome start.  Within the first pages the eerie atmosphere of Mendenhall is set.  Mendenhall is an old Victorian mansion which was converted years ago to a dorm on the campus of Baird College.  Not far from the dorm on the campus is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31741023">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For the most part, I've never been really interested in reading ghost stories. As far as supernatural creatures go, ghosts really don't rate high on my list.<br/><br/>Well, I actually enjoyed it. I found it to be well-written and interesting. I enjoyed the blend of Jewish religious beliefs in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45373846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would give it 3 star except: <br/><br/>Thanksgiving weekend, my freshmen year at college. There were only 4 of us who didn't go home for the weekend, and we had the whole place to ourselves. Between the quiet and the temp. blackout, we ended up telling ghost stories to each other and thoroughly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48452300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really your typical horror read : 5 students alone in a big dorm hall, rainy and spooky, dorm has a very dark Gothic feel, 5 students are either loners, depressed, outcasts or all of the above. Now mix that with a ouija board, a Jewish/Kabbalah scary tale of supernatural outcasts and you have a very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41762197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever since Shirley Jackson's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89717.The_Haunting_of_Hill_House_Penguin_Classics_" title="The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics) by Shirley Jackson">The Haunting of Hill House</a> scared the living hell out of me at age 11 (even if I didn't completely understand it all at the time), I've enjoyed stories that involve supernatural nasties. I love gloomy old houses, spooky woods, creaking noises at night, and all those thin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12528561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very well done. Five lonely and disturbed college students contact spirits through a ouji board. Quite scary, but then the ouji board is a scary theme. Contrasts strongly with Christopher Rice's Snow Garden, which is also about college students and evil. In this novel the characters are believeable ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43541336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a page turner.  Ok, so not really scary...but what is anymore?  I may have only given it 2 stars on the average day, but I read it at the beach so it was entertaining.  I will not remember this book in the scheme of things, but it was enjoyable.  So for all of those with a touch of misfit ins...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55615326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like a good, creepy ghost story, this fits the bill.  Be aware, while the story is a fun, spooky read, it does contain some strong language and mature themes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Typical ghost story-- College age students find Ouija Board, bring back a malevolent spirit, death and panic ensue, kids are able to put the evil spirit in place. Fairly well written. The author gets an extra star for using a lot of big words- I was studying for the Miller Analogies Test, so she hel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76221004">more...</a>]]></body>
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