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Feb 13, 2009 09:15AM
Okay, since at least one person has requested it, here it is: the thread where you can post any comments, questions, etc. about Ghost Story, without worrying about spoiling the story for those who haven't read that far yet! So, the rest of you, be warned --if you haven't finished the book yet (I haven't either), this might be a thread you want to avoid until you have read to the end.
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OK, I finished the book a few days ago. Some books leave you with all kinds of comments and questions as soon as you've finished them, others seem to take a bit longer and Ghost Story took a bit longer for me.First, reading Ghost Story was a doubly eerie experience for me because it turns out that I must have read it before many years ago. Either that or I've become suddenly psychic because I kept having flashes of what was going to happen next.
I suppose one obvious question the book raises is what the Angie/Alma/Ann-Veronica thing meant when it told its victims "I am you." Do you think that it drew its human characteristics from its surroundings, including the people around it? That would explain why Don Wanderly noticed such a change in Alma when they moved from the university community to his brother's vacation home. But if that's true, I wonder what brought Eva Galli to town in the first place and who was she after?
Well, I just got the book back from the library and my book mark is still in it! So whoever got it didn't have enough time to finish it either! Laura, that happens to me all the time as I read Norah Lofts books over and forget most of the plot but then bits will come back. You can tell if you are really getting psychic but doing the neverending quiz! LOL ...I get lots right and never read the books.
Very spooky! Is this book about possession? If it is I can't read it. That subject scares me too much. Its odd how sometimes things get called ghosts when they are not really ghosts at all but something else.
Very spooky! Is this book about possession? If it is I can't read it. That subject scares me too much. Its odd how sometimes things get called ghosts when they are not really ghosts at all but something else.
Alice - no, I wouldn't say it's about possession. The evil entity impersonates various human beings, including some that the characters already know, but no one is possessed in the "Exorcist" meaning of the word.
Glad to hear that as I can't take that kind of thing. Thanks so much for the info. That is scary enough for me.
I interpret the "I am you" comments (which both Eva and her avatars and Gregory make) as saying something like this: "I am the kind of being that you, in your heart of hearts, secretly really want to be --the embodiment of your own true, dark desires, which you can fulfill if you just surrender to me." Of course, this is part of their psychological warfare, an appeal to the dark side of human nature because that's the side that gives them a handle for manipulation/control.I just finished the book yesterday! If it isn't posted on our group's read shelf, I'll post it there now; if you want to, you'll be able to read my review there. (It got five stars from me!)
