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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
A história é realmente assustadora e faz todo sentido ter feito o sucesso que fez. Na minha cabeça, antes de ler o livro, achei que ia ser sobre os DeFeo, mas achei interessante a história ser sobre os Lutz, após o caso dos DeFeo.
Mas chegou num ponto que eu só conseguia pensar “POR QUE ELES NÃO SAEM LOGO DA CASA???”. Eu entendo que em alguns momentos eles não conseguiram, mas com tudo que estava acontecendo eles ainda ficaram 28 dias, sério?
Porém, eu gostei da narrativa, me prendeu bastante e eu terminava um capítulo querendo saber o que ia acontecer no próximo.
Mas chegou num ponto que eu só conseguia pensar “POR QUE ELES NÃO SAEM LOGO DA CASA???”. Eu entendo que em alguns momentos eles não conseguiram, mas com tudo que estava acontecendo eles ainda ficaram 28 dias, sério?
Porém, eu gostei da narrativa, me prendeu bastante e eu terminava um capítulo querendo saber o que ia acontecer no próximo.
Unfortunately not better than the movie (and thankfully not worse)
Började starkt! Älskade den första halvan ungefär. Sen tröttnade jag lite på allt som hände och var inte längre lika skrämd. Då tappade det till viss del som tjusning. Men jag är glad att jag har läst den!
Never in my life have I witnessed a book with so many exclamation points. It really took away from the story. The writing was not very good and frankly the story was not that great either.
Sub-par writing on top of a debunked story that the author continues to insist is truth. Not worth the read
I think it's hard to read this now and figure out how people thought it was a true story. That said, I feel like a lot of the things in here that seem cliche and/or predictable to us now (children talking to people/pigs that aren't there, levitating, ectoplasm/slime, bad smells, etc.) were probably kind of fresh for a lot of people when this came out. Is it predictable? Of course. Are the characters fleshed out and whole? Not really. I do think if it had been written in a more traditional nonfiction style, as in interviews or with more distance between the writer/narrator and the events as they happened, the whole thing would be more interesting (true or not).
I feel like two stars is generous. The whole thing was obviously a hoax, but the movie at least knew what it was doing--telling a work of fiction.
The characters behave in ways that are so irrational that it strains credulity--if you believe the story to be real, the Lutzes come off as incredibly bad parents with little to no survival instinct. If you acknowledge the reality of the story--that it is a work of fiction--the charactes are poorly written. Then again, the whole thing is poorly written. I listened to the audio version which was probably better, because the writing itself is plain and clunky.
In fact, the best argument for this being a 'true' story is the fact that it's so all over the place, that the people make incomprehensibly bad decisions, that some plot threads never resolve, and that the evil of the house is never really consistently depicted. A writer of fiction surely would not construct a story so abominably. Then again...
Is there any good to the story? Yes, it inspired one of my favorite horror movies. Though in hindsight, something capitalizing off the DeFeo murders just seems tackier the older I get. The book left a bad taste in my mouth. It was quick, I'll give it that. And there's no denying that it is a culturally significant book, having impacted a generation of horror writers.
I don't begrudge people who enjoy this, but I think I'll stick with stories like The Haunting of Hill House, Hell House, and The Shining.
The characters behave in ways that are so irrational that it strains credulity--if you believe the story to be real, the Lutzes come off as incredibly bad parents with little to no survival instinct. If you acknowledge the reality of the story--that it is a work of fiction--the charactes are poorly written. Then again, the whole thing is poorly written. I listened to the audio version which was probably better, because the writing itself is plain and clunky.
In fact, the best argument for this being a 'true' story is the fact that it's so all over the place, that the people make incomprehensibly bad decisions, that some plot threads never resolve, and that the evil of the house is never really consistently depicted. A writer of fiction surely would not construct a story so abominably. Then again...
Is there any good to the story? Yes, it inspired one of my favorite horror movies. Though in hindsight, something capitalizing off the DeFeo murders just seems tackier the older I get. The book left a bad taste in my mouth. It was quick, I'll give it that. And there's no denying that it is a culturally significant book, having impacted a generation of horror writers.
I don't begrudge people who enjoy this, but I think I'll stick with stories like The Haunting of Hill House, Hell House, and The Shining.
Nice bit of spookiness to get me out of a reading slump. I don't personally believe in the paranormal, but I did enjoy the insanity, and the growing tension within this book. I would have been out of there after day 1. Probably won't go to the top of my list for thriller or horror, but it was an enjoyable quick read!