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I saved this book to listen to in October, and decided to read it a little ahead of October in hopes that I could talk about it on a podcast episode.
To my taste, I think I like The Haunting of Hill House better. I kept expecting a more supernatural element that never appeared, in fact I was scoured the internet looking for mentions that maybe the girls in the story - Constance and Merricat - are ghosts or cats or something like this. I kept suspecting this at various points, and was actually le ...more
To my taste, I think I like The Haunting of Hill House better. I kept expecting a more supernatural element that never appeared, in fact I was scoured the internet looking for mentions that maybe the girls in the story - Constance and Merricat - are ghosts or cats or something like this. I kept suspecting this at various points, and was actually le ...more
A slow-burning and creepy masterpiece of psychological horror. This novel is told from the viewpoint of Merricat Blackwood, who has the narrative voice of a twelve year old, though we learn she is actually eighteen. She lives in seclusion with her sister, Constance, her cat, Jonas and her Uncle Julian on the rambling Blackwood estate, after a terrible event occurs within her family. Merricat lives in her own fantasy world, until her cousin Charles appears, inexorably tilting the precarious balan
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Creepy, mythic with an unreliable narrator to boot, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a must-read.
A nice little read, fairly short, about a poisoning in a small town and its aftereffects. Although the murderer's i.d. became fairly clear fairly soon, the denouement of the story was a bit surprising and pretty amusing. Very enjoyable with good writing.
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Super weird and good.
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