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The Amityville Horror

Jay Anson

3.35 AVERAGE

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

I know this book has its controversies, but I enjoyed it for what it is. Haunted house books are my favorite type of horror and so I had a good time with this. It gave me the creeps and unsettled me a bit. I definitely can see what everyone’s talking about that some stuff was just too over the top. However, for a spooky, Halloween read, I got what I wanted. 

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Bad even as fiction, laughable that it is meant to be a true story
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3.5 stars, the writing could have been much better and too many exclamation points!
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It's pretty cheesy but most people probably know that going in. I suspect - or more really, know -  it's relationship to "truth" is tenuous but it's a lot of fun and really good at what it is trying to be. 
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So so so scary