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The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House
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Gerhard
May 25, 2021 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: favorites, horror-thriller-mystery, 2021
Checking out the Goodreads reviews after just finishing this. People saying they didn’t ‘get’ the characters and that nothing of consequence happens that is even remotely scary? Did we all read the same book?

I literally finished this in a white heat over two nights; during the day while working I could not stop thinking about poor Eleanor’s agonising descent into madness, what is real or imagined along the way, and who – or what – abetted her inevitable dissolution.

This scared the bejesus out o ...more
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Shirley (stampartiste)
Oct 28, 2020 rated it really liked it
Shelves: read-classics
A wonderful psychological thriller just perfect for Halloween. Strange events keep happening in Hill House that indicate the house is haunted. But by whom? A past occupant? The house itself? Or one of the guests with telekinetic powers? This story is scary primarily because it leaves the reader in constant suspense. I kept waiting for it to turn into Stephen King's The Shining, but Jackson's psychological analysis of the house guests was a different and very satisfying approach to the horror of ...more
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Ileana
Sep 24, 2018 rated it really liked it
«It’s my chance, I suppose, she thought; I’m being given a last chance. I could turn my car around right here and now in front of these gates and go away from here, and no one would blame me. Anyone has a right to run away.»
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adele
Oct 08, 2020 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: ehrtbm-book-group
I really wanted to like this book. I don’t know if it was the pacing, the characters, the genre, or just the story itself but something about it was just not that engaging. The tension just wasn’t there for me. I was confused for a good bit of the time, the character dynamics were all over the place (which is part of the story, but like I could barely follow it). Just overall not a huge fan, sorry.
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Denise E.
Dec 04, 2018 rated it really liked it
Beautiful, beautiful. Weirdly saucy too, featuring a love scene that basically seems snuck in, for the 1950s. Jackson is such a good writer. For some reason the story lost my attention in the last 1/3 but who even cares.
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Paula
Jun 20, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Jan 27, 2018 rated it really liked it
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Elena
Feb 24, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Jhmingos
Feb 16, 2022 rated it it was ok
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Oct 15, 2021 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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