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The Amityville Horror

Jay Anson

3.35 AVERAGE

marjati_reads's review against another edition

2.0

dark fast-paced

allywetz's review against another edition

3.0

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A book about toxic masculinity, borderline animal abuse, and a priest that is very bad at his job.

jessbauer11's review against another edition

2.0

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I started reading this in the daytime, but I've been having trouble sleeping and seemed to keep waking up around 3 AM, just like the characters of this book. So I started reading it at 3 AM and the book went from interesting to creepy real fast! In fact, the only time it was scary was my 3 AM reads in the dark, where your imagination is running wild and your mind plays tricks on you. Was it a scary book? Not really. Was it well written? Yes.

The Afterwards mentioned The Warrens, known con artist that inspired The Conjuring films, where I started rolling my eyes hard. If they say "yes this is real" to anything, you can immediately write it off.This is sold as a "retelling of true events" but I view it as a well written piece of fiction. I enjoyed the writing but I wouldn't put it on my top horror list anytime soon.

caylizray's review against another edition

2.0

fast-paced

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Dumb idiots won't leave a house. 

Seriously, though, while I want to believe the events, all I could think the whole time was that there had to be a gas leak somewhere. When Ed and Lorraine Warren showed up in the epilogue, I believed it all even less.

beetlebecca's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

laughingwillow's review against another edition

2.0

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This story could have been so much better had it been written well.

cozy_bee's review against another edition

2.75

dark mysterious slow-paced

katerina_a's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

schmaley67's review against another edition

3.25

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

tracycross007's review against another edition

5.0

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I liked this a lot. It’s a short read and very different from the movie. However, parts did make me sit straight up and gave me pause. I’m glad I read it.