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by Shirley Jackson, Bernadette Dunne

Portable Magic rated it

7 years ago

text We Have Always Lived in the Castle ★★★★☆

Shirley Jackson is so good at taking us inside the heads of characters who really don’t fully understand how disturbed they are, and neither do we, until we do. And that a-ha moment, when clarity hits. This story leaves me with even more questions about what is real or not and fascinated with the dy...

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Themis-Athena's Garden of Books rated it

7 years ago

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Pandabearbooks rated it

8 years ago

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3,75 stars. I liked it, but in a way that's really hard to pin point. Everything about this was better than average, yet nothing blew my mind.

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Douglas Smith | Writer rated it

8 years ago

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This is one of the most stunning pieces of fiction I've ever read. The prose is hypnotic and, similar to The Haunting of Hill House, Jackson's presents us with a point of view character that we slowly realize is unreliable and unbalanced (but fascinating) as a narrator of a very strange history. It ...

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Kell's Reading Realm rated it

8 years ago

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Many things disturbed me about this story... but I think that was the intent.

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Jennifer's Books rated it

8 years ago

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Wow. What a way to start off the year. This was an excellent book.I don't want to say too much for fear of spoiling anything, but this book while not outright scary was certainly plenty unsettling. We are set down in the middle of the lives of Merricat Blackwood, her agoraphobic sister, Constance, a...

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ELK's Library rated it

8 years ago

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This is the second time I've read this book. I liked it the first time I read it and loved it the second time. Shirley Jackson does an amazing job sprinkling clues throughout about the night Merricat's family dies without revealing too much. I had an inkling the first time through, but was never qui...

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Abandoned by Booklikes rated it

8 years ago

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I really liked the slow build to this classic Shirley Jackson novel. The book is told from Mary Katherine (Merricat) Blackwood's point of view. We don't know what has happened to make her, and her sister Constance pariahs to the town in which they live. We know that the Blackwoods were/are wealthy a...

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Ani's Book Abyss rated it

8 years ago

text Short Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson I don't know how to feel about this book, because while it's written very well, the actual story line felt a bit dragged out. We see a lot of day-to-day activities with nothing much really going on. Although the atmosphere and the actions and...

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Lornographic Material rated it

9 years ago

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Pretty language and creepy atmosphere mix with a plot I was expecting a little more from. I kept thinking, any minute now... any minute now this is going to blow a part in my hair... any minute now I'm going to think "Where has this book been all my life?" ... any minute now I'm going to see what ev...

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