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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 28, 2019 11:20:08 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Aug 28, 2019 22:10:46 GMT
I've read 3 of them : The Turn of the Screw, The Lovely Bones, and The Woman in Black. I enjoyed all three.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 28, 2019 22:22:11 GMT
I’ve read none.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 22:26:25 GMT
PC list.
As usual.
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Post by Zos on Aug 29, 2019 14:29:41 GMT
The Little Stranger is very well written. Crime not to include "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman though, a great book for kids of all ages.
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 29, 2019 21:13:55 GMT
Other than The Turn of the Screw and The Woman in Black, this is something of an underwhelming list. Where’s MR James? Le Fanu? Crawford? Blackwood? Onions? Shirley Jackson?
Maybe if this were a list of underrated ghost stories or something, but as an overview of the genre it leaves off most of the major players and seems written by someone unfamiliar with most of the genre’s classics.
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Post by jackspicer on Sept 5, 2019 21:29:41 GMT
I read Dark Matter, and The Woman In Black. Dark Matter was in the form of a diary, and I've come to not like those sort of books, since the diary entries do not read like real diary entries. It's similar to the way I feel about 'found footage' films (WHO WOULD BE RECORDING THIS? / WHO WOULD BE WRITING THIS IN THEIR DIARY?). You can have a fantastical elements in your books (ghosts, etc), but the people should behave like actual people. I can only suspend my disbelief so far.
The Woman in Black was decent, though as I recall it's still a diary(ish) book. It was done better, though.
Back in 2004 or so, a girl in my high school that I had a crush on was reading The Lovely Bones, so I thought I would read it so I'd have something to talk to her about. Upon realizing it was about the rape and murder of a teenage girl, I concluded this was not an ideal topic of conversation, and abandoned my plan. I stopped reading half-way through because it was too depressing.
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Post by novastar6 on Sept 6, 2019 19:36:30 GMT
Never read any of them, and have to agree with it being an 'underwhelming' list.
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