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The Little Stranger |  | Author: Sarah Waters
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  221 reviews
Sales Rank: 321
Media: Paperback
Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1844086062
EAN: 9781844086061
ASIN: 1844086062
Publication Date: January 5, 2010
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* The brilliant and chilling new novel from Sarah Waters - longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009
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 Wish I hadn't bothered July 28, 2010
LA Hanson
I read the off putting reviews but decided to give it a go anyway. Why did I bother? I found it dull, not scary in the least as some have commented they found it. The characters were unengaging, and unlikeable, and to me the plot never really got going. I carried on with it but was so glad when it was over. Not one for a re-read.
I have read other novels by Sarah Waters that I really enjoyed, this one though sadly did nothing for me.
 Just not scary July 26, 2010
P. Albone (Bedfordshire UK)
I read this book after reading two reviews both stating that you'd be "scared to turn the next page" and "don't read with the light off." Quite how that is possible i'm still not sure. So I read the synopsis and really liked the idea of this once marvelous house falling in to rack and ruin whilst its owners try to keep up appearances whilst some malevolent force works it way through the family.
The book itself is written well with great prose and the author paints a fantstic picture of the setting and each of the charaters is well defined. The problem that I have with the book is that it just isn't scary, not in the least. the story spans 500 pages yet their is only a handful of incidents. I continued reading thinking that at some point things would turn darker but it never does. Nothing is ever clarifyed and the ending is a bit open ended (though the back of the book states NOT THE END)
Calling the book "the little stranger" is misleading also. I thought the title quite creepy but once you've read through you realise that the title has little in common with the story.
Maybe its me and other people will find this the scariest read of their lives. I often think about writing a horror novel as my imagination can be somewhat macarbe but I never deem my thoughts to be scary enough to put on page yet I think they would be alot more frightening than this. I guess my biggest problem with the book is that the premise is so good and could have been genuinely scary.
 Scared me but I couldn't put it down July 23, 2010
Sontee
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Normally I don't entertain the horror genre; I think life's scary enough! So a book about a haunted house would not normally make it to my bedside reading pile.
The reason I bought this book is because I've read most of Sarah Waters and wanted to read this too. I was a bit apprehensive reading it and had mentally prepared myself for the inevitable scary moments.
It read however like the beautiful prose I've come to expect from Ms Waters. But then the book turned on me. The change was so sudden and yet subtle, it took me by surprise. It happened so unexpectedly that it seemed to creep up on me and creep me out.
I have never been more scared. Not since the exorcist! This was much worse. I'm a grown up woman who couldn't get out of bed for fear of encountering some `little stranger' in my own house which is a mid-terrace, centre of a town location!! Not an old house in a solitary, rural-setting at all! But fear is perhaps by definition irrational and two days on, I still haven't been able to shake off the book from my memory or indeed the dark thoughts...
Please read this book, but remember you might have to sleep with the lights on for a...er... well ..a few weeks...
creepy July 22, 2010
jholden
fascinating book. Written in a very straightforward style which makes the creepiness even more shocking.
 Slow July 16, 2010
S. Wilson (UK)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Although I don't think you can properly review a book until you've finished reading it I'm not sure if I will bother to finish Little Stranger. I've read about 3/4 of it and although I'm sure it wouldn't take me very long to finish it but with so many other books in my 'to read' pile that I am keen to get started on I doubt it.
So, the book is very slow - so slow I am still waiting for something really to happen. Anything that does happen takes so long to actually happen that it's more of a case of ploughing through it rather than being intrigued enough to want to find out more. The characters aren't likeable at all and the well, I suppose 'love story' in it is terrbible. Really terrbile. So terrible I almost feel sorry for these people, that is only almost - because I don't like either of them.
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