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Regan MacNeil is a young girl who is living with her famous actress mother, Chris, when Regan becomes inexplicably ill and she becomes the target of poltergeist activity. As time goes on, Regan becomes fully demonically possessed and in desperation her mother takes her to a Catholic priest who deals with psychiatric issues. Father Damien Karras has recently lost his mother and starts out not truly believing that Regan is actually demonically possessed.
Suffering from a crisis of faith, it only ta ...more
Suffering from a crisis of faith, it only ta ...more
I don't think there is anyone in existence who hasn't seen this film so in a way it does taint your experience of the book. Still remains a fairly creepy read though. The scenes with Regan are incredibly well written and you really can't call yourself a fan of horror until you've read this book!
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I read this book over twenty tears ago and loved it. I remember the story well and that I couldn't put the book down, which is remarkable considering how much time has passed.
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Watched the film when I was 13 and it didn't scare me then. Have been wanting to read the book for years but just kept putting it off. Maybe I just don't scare easily but I found the book rather dull at times and not at all creepy.
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The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in Regan's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. Easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes start in the eleven-year-old girl. Medical tests shed no light on her symptoms, but it is as if a different personality has invaded the child.
Father Damien Karras, a Jesuit priest, is called in. Is it possible that a demonic force is preset in the child? Exorcism is the only answer...
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The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in Regan's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. Easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes start in the eleven-year-old girl. Medical tests shed no light on her symptoms, but it is as if a different personality has invaded the child.
Father Damien Karras, a Jesuit priest, is called in. Is it possible that a demonic force is preset in the child? Exorcism is the only answer...
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I’m not sure I can properly express how much I disliked this book. Let’s just credit the movie for the “classic” status and be done with it.
Possession freaks me out, so I put off reading this book because I thought it would terrify me. I was way off. The story is dragged out and dull. Eventually I got to parts that grossed me out, but I was never scared. Not even a little bit.
The mother is perhaps the worst character ever. She’s a caricature who has absolutely no appropriate reactions to anythin ...more
Possession freaks me out, so I put off reading this book because I thought it would terrify me. I was way off. The story is dragged out and dull. Eventually I got to parts that grossed me out, but I was never scared. Not even a little bit.
The mother is perhaps the worst character ever. She’s a caricature who has absolutely no appropriate reactions to anythin ...more
The scariest novel of all time.
One of my favourite books because it was one that I had to hide away and read for fear that my mother would think I was Satanic if she found it! totally worth it though- am looking for an original printing
Sep 23, 2011
Felicia
marked it as to-read
Jun 29, 2013
ELP
marked it as to-read
