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Suvi
Jul 19, 2008 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: _great-britain, novels, 1700s, gothic
Taking seriously a book which starts with a giant helmet falling from the sky and killing a prince, turned out to be quite impossible. That is precisely why I kind of liked the whole thing. There's just so many ridiculous events and strangely behaving characters, that in the end it's just funny instead of scary. The plot is so fast-paced you barely have time to consider what would possibly happen next, and sometimes you can't help but roll your eyes at the words that the characters let out of th ...more
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Nancy
May 21, 2020 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: adventure, 2020-read, audiobooks-2020
You have to hand it to Walpole; he created a genre and parodied it with a single book. This was just silly.
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Karen
Oct 16, 2021 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 1001
2.5 stars really, I am reminded why I am not fond of 18th century literature.
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SarahC
Nov 30, 2008 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Kristin
Aug 31, 2009 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: british-irish-lit
Kara
Oct 23, 2009 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Anna
Oct 17, 2010 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: gothic
Micha
Sep 12, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Tanya
Aug 07, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: list-1001-btrbyd
Meghan
Feb 19, 2014 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: scary-horror
Megan
Jun 28, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: oxford-world-classics
Maria Yohn
Apr 03, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Kathy Jo
Jul 03, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Keeley
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Katie
Aug 21, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Phoebe
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Grace
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