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We Have Always Lived In The Castle ENDING SPOILERS Chapters 8, 9 and 10.
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When they teach you public speaking, there is a concept called "ho-hum". This is a brief statement at the very starting point of the speech, sufficiently interesting so that the audience will immediately sit up and take notice. It is the "hook" with which the speaker snares them.
I have found that this works very well in narrative fiction too. If the first paragraph is sufficiently interesting, the reader continues long enough to get pulled into the story. While this is not essential, many great ...more
I have found that this works very well in narrative fiction too. If the first paragraph is sufficiently interesting, the reader continues long enough to get pulled into the story. While this is not essential, many great ...more
What a delicious, creepy, dark story. What else can one say?
If you like this book too much, there is something wrong with you!
The whole appeal here is Merricat, an insane but kind of cute narrator who lives with her odd family and is surrounded by a village of people who hate her. She has one of the best-rendered voices in fiction. Some would call her an unreliable narrator, but I don't fully agree. Everything she says is factually accurate, but her sense of cause and effect is nonexistent, and her desires are unhealthy.
As Merricat goes along, we gradua ...more
The whole appeal here is Merricat, an insane but kind of cute narrator who lives with her odd family and is surrounded by a village of people who hate her. She has one of the best-rendered voices in fiction. Some would call her an unreliable narrator, but I don't fully agree. Everything she says is factually accurate, but her sense of cause and effect is nonexistent, and her desires are unhealthy.
As Merricat goes along, we gradua ...more
Merricat is one of my favorite narrators. I unfortunately predicted the big reveal pretty early, but it didn't make the book any less enjoyable or disturbing.
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3.5 stars.
Mar 26, 2020
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I enjoyed this without being shocked or enamored, but JCO's afterword in the edition I read somewhat soured me at the last second. (She theorizes Merricat as a "paranoid schizophrenic" and throws around some psychoanalysis. This is why I hate literary types.)
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What to say about this book?----Everyone should read it. I feel that if I explain too much of how I felt about this book or why I gave it the rating that I did or what I am thinking now that I have finished it, that it will ruin how other feels when they read it. This book should be experienced. I feel that I should read this book many more times so I can grasp the full effect, but I am grateful that it was given to me to read.
Mar 25, 2015
Hend
marked it as to-read
Jul 29, 2015
Viji (Bookish endeavors)
marked it as stopped-reading-for-a-while
Aug 18, 2015
Dillwynia Peter
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Dec 10, 2015
Carol Davis
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Jan 27, 2017
Kaśyap
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Mar 15, 2017
Chester
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Jun 29, 2024
Caroline
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it was amazing
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May 08, 2019
Adele
marked it as to-read
