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    <body><![CDATA[If you are looking for a traditional horror novel, you won't find it in <br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6065182.The_Little_Stranger" title="The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters">The Little Stranger</a>. This book is not a variant on <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11588.The_Shining" title="The Shining by Stephen King">The Shining</a> that just happens to be set in post-WWII Britain: it is essentially historical fiction that happens to have a touch of the supernatural about it. And as histor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55777888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Had this book jumping up and down on the shelves since it's day of issue and I have been waiting for Hallowe'en to embark...<br/><br/>BUT I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER.<br/><br/><img src="http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/94155665/456521" class="escapedImg"/><br/><br/>A day off work, roaring log fire, soft leather settee strewn with big puffy cushions, watery yellow winter light...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59376816">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was quite torn about how to rate this book and went between 2 and 3 stars.  I love most of Waters' books.  I loved Tipping the Velvet and Affinity was a great ghost story, but this book was like her other book Night Watch-long, drawn-out and left me wondering what the point was.  Faraday, the main...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73768874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Departing from her preferred 19th century context, as she did in her last book <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47989.Night_Watch_Discworld_27_" title="Night Watch (Discworld, #27) by Terry Pratchett">The Night Watch</a>, Sarah Waters sets her latest novel in post-World War II Warwickshire and tries her hand at an Old Dark House, Haunted-Or-Is-It story in the Jamesian tradition of subtle, ambiguous psychological chillers (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52083620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the more enjoyable aspects of Sarah Waters' slow paced (occasionally excruciatingly so) ghost novel, &quot;The Little Stranger,&quot; is how subtle and contemplative its frights are, rather than being necessarily immediate or shocking.  The ending is cleverly done – and softly done – so m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50692097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The ending of this book is so subtle and so...open to interpretation, that I feel as though I might be getting it wrong. I hope I'm not. There's a sort of _Turning of the Screw_ element to this ghost story (Is there a ghost or isn't there? Whose point of view can you trust?) that might not be pleasi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57909841">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome ghost story in a rundown English house just after wwii. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Little Stranger is an engrossing, hugely enjoyable read with set pieces guaranteed to make anyone with a pulse gibber in fright. For me, the climax doesn’t quite work; there’s a loss of tension over the last 20 pages that means this reader had recovered a disappointing amount of composure by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81259036">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hundreds Hall is een prachtig Georgiaans gebouw op het platteland in een Engels graafschap, vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De aristocratische Mrs Ayres en haar zoon en dochter, die er de eigenaars van zijn, proberen het in verval zijnde gebouw en de landerijen van de ondergang te redden. Dat valt n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81211900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, so I'm really not into ghost stories and truthfully didn't realize that that was what this was when I picked it up.  Has this book converted me to the genre?  No, but I have to say this was a great read.  Post WWII England.  Many of the &quot;better&quot; families was struggling to hang on to so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78205437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't find this one as entertaining as the other books of Waters' that I've read. After several months of occasional consideration, I think it's because the ending is so ambiguous. Now, ambiguous hauntings are actually my favourite kind--see Shirley Jackson's <em>The Haunting of Hill House</em> for a perf...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76091001">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first review clocked up for Good Reads, and whaddya know, it's a topical one. This will quickly become an anomaly in my reviews, I predict. I rarely read books in the year they come out, unless its a new Paul Auster. It's not because I'm too cheap to buy new books when they're released; quite the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71189973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yeep!  Made the mistake of reading this at night before bed and had troubled dreams all night long.  Waters tells a darn good story and knows just how to insert uncertainty into the narrative without the reader even realizing it's there.  All seems straightforward enough - our narrator, an unmarried...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67877878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sarah Waters makes a bit of a departure with this, her fifth novel.  <em>The Little Stranger</em> is a gothic mystery that draws on historical literary predecessors and creates something new and supremely creepy.  The Ayers family has inhabited their ancestral home, Hundreds, for several hundred years.  In t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66001951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like all of Sarah Waters' books, The Little Stranger has a lovely slow build to it, topped off with a sock you between the eyes climax. This one is as simple a ghost story as you can get, but it is richly told by a narrator who gets most of his information second or third hand. I like this quite a b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61541418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters was definitely worth the read. The story is set in 1940’s Britain where we follow Dr. Faraday from a boyhood visit to an estate called “Hundreds Hall” to his present day interaction with the place and its occupants, the Ayers (mother,  daughter and son).  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60149605">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sarah Waters has perhaps written a masterpiece. The story seems an ordinary gothic ghost tale at first. By the time the &quot;little stranger&quot; appears the nature of each character is smoothly and seamlessly revealed so that we know these people very well, and understand how they relate to each ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57509810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I greatly admire Sarah Waters--two of her earlier books, Affinity, and Fingersmith, are favorites of mine not only for their beauty and historical accuracy, but also for the fact that they both had secrets which fooled me completely. Her narrative skill and love of surprise remind me of Daphne DuMau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55476231">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's no <em>Fingersmith</em>. Let's get that out of the way right away, because that's Sarah Waters's best-known and probably best-loved book (I actually prefer <em>Affinity</em>, but I'm weird that way). <br/><br/>Having said that, if you've liked and enjoyed Sarah Waters's books before, I think you will like this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54678246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this--I am currently reading anything with big houses in, especially if said house is on the cover of the book--but I think I am not quick enough on the uptake, because I need to re-read the whole book so I can understand the ending. <br/><br/>Also, I objected to what happened to my favori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54510291">more...</a>]]></body>
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