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Martha Wells returns to her Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The …
"Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris …
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"Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris Corporation is floundering, and more …
"Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayChris Corporation is floundering, and more …
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving …
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as …
Content warning Minor spoilers up to approximately the halfway mark.
This book is not very good. I have been listening to the audiobook and, in spite of its short duration, I can't bring myself to finish it. The book is definitely creepy, but I hesitate to call it scary. Simply put, the book is almost entirely devoid of action. I like psychological terror as much as the next guy, but something like the first quarter to third of the book is spent following around the point of view character prior to her arrival at the house. We learn some important details about her personality during this time, but I couldn't help but think you could cut all that chaff out of the book and still be left with the wheat of the story—unfortunately, the wheat is lacking.
The characters spend more time describing in a very empirical and scientific way how they are feeling and reacting to the strangeness of the house than they do actually reacting in any realistic human way. This perhaps fits the premise of the "science experiment" aspect of their staying in the house, but it completely sucks the terror out of every remotely terrifying moment. It reads like a textbook.
Maybe if I were reading this book at 2AM on a moonless Halloween night during a thunderstorm my reaction would be different. It's just not for me.
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving …
The Land of Open Graves is a book by anthropologist Jason De León with photographs by Michael Wells. The book …
The Book of Three (1964) is a high fantasy novel by American writer Lloyd Alexander, the first of five volumes …
