Stephen King picked this as his #1 read of 2009 in Entertainment Weekly, and as I'm always looking for a new favorite author, I decided to give it a shot. I really enjoyed the writing, which is something like saying "she has a great personality," I suppose. Most of the first 300 pages are descriptions of Dr. Faraday's visits to the Ayres home, The Hundreds, an old family mansion fallen into hard times after WWII. The last 150 pages get into the actual ghost story, which was somewhat disappointing, as it was extremely subtle and didn't raise a single hair on the back of my neck. As a historical novel, it was actually a pretty good story of a romance-gone-wrong and an old money family falling apart - the "ghost" element was actually unnecessary.
Friday, January 22, 2010
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
Stephen King picked this as his #1 read of 2009 in Entertainment Weekly, and as I'm always looking for a new favorite author, I decided to give it a shot. I really enjoyed the writing, which is something like saying "she has a great personality," I suppose. Most of the first 300 pages are descriptions of Dr. Faraday's visits to the Ayres home, The Hundreds, an old family mansion fallen into hard times after WWII. The last 150 pages get into the actual ghost story, which was somewhat disappointing, as it was extremely subtle and didn't raise a single hair on the back of my neck. As a historical novel, it was actually a pretty good story of a romance-gone-wrong and an old money family falling apart - the "ghost" element was actually unnecessary.
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