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My review for the R.I.P. Challenge #3:
I had expected this to be really scary, but it wasn't at all, probably because it was a thriller and not a horror story, as I had thought. It was full of suspense and creepy, but not in a "leaving me wanting to sleep with the lights on" kind of way. In fact, when I rolled into bed after finishing it at 1.30 a.m. I slept like a baby.
I did enjoy it. Jackson writes very well, she knows how to create an atmosphere and a sense of foreboding, and while reading I t ...more
I had expected this to be really scary, but it wasn't at all, probably because it was a thriller and not a horror story, as I had thought. It was full of suspense and creepy, but not in a "leaving me wanting to sleep with the lights on" kind of way. In fact, when I rolled into bed after finishing it at 1.30 a.m. I slept like a baby.
I did enjoy it. Jackson writes very well, she knows how to create an atmosphere and a sense of foreboding, and while reading I t ...more
Quite brilliant! Creepy and atmospheric, a tale of two sisters and a mystery surrounding the rest of the family who have been murdered. Definitely a modern classic and well worth a read.
Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle, was far more entertaining to me than her more-famous The Haunting of Hill House, and at least as thought-provoking as her short story, The Lottery. "Castle" frequently appeared on school reading lists presented to me in my bookseller days, and I can understand why. The book is excellent fodder for literary discussion! I hesitate to express too much here, lest I ruin the effect of Jackson's narrative style and the way she concludes the tale i
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