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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson,

Laura Miller (Introduction)

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May 25, 2021 Gerhard 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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Sep 24, 2018 Ileana 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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Oct 08, 2020 adele 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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Dec 04, 2018 Denise E. 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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