Some Books Are Born Bad... (Haunting, The - Ruby Jean Jensen)

Member Name: Cool Man

Product:	Haunting, The - Ruby Jean Jensen
Date:	30/06/00 (12 review reads)
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Advantages: It shows the horrors that we can have in our own minds

Disadvantages: No one would get past the second chapter

Most of us will know The Haunting as the movie staring Liam Neeson and Catharine Zeta Jones. But the special effects and hauntings within this film are additions to the plot that began in Shirley Jacksons novel, The Haunting of Hill House.
The book contains none of the exaggerated haunting featured in the film, but a more complex haunting. A haunting most vivid in the minds of those involved. It expresses the vulnerability of one character, Eleanor Lance. But this vulnerability which causes her to become "attatched" to the house is not featured in the films. Probably because it does not make for interesting watching, or reading. If one wished to make an in depth study of this book I am certain you would find deep fear and horror. However most of us do not make studies of the books we read, and unless we were reading this in order to study it, I doubt most people would get past the second chapter. The ideas behind the book are well enough, but the idea that the house was born bad is fairly unbelievable in the context. I am not saying houses cannot be born bad, but this book would be far more interesting if this evil house exercised this evil more often.
In short, the book means well enough, but some action might have helped it be more interesting.

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