skaficionado rated The Haunting of Hill House: 5 stars
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Penguin classics)
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving …
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First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving …
This is a fine book. Fast paced, amusing writing. But lacking somewhat in character development. Not that Dashiell Hammett characters had compelling story arcs. Pulp detective stories don't often. So, yeah, fine. Enjoyable even. But there's not much there.
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I love Pargin's writing, and have since I first read him on Cracked.com many years ago. The Zoey Ashe series is maniacally funny while also doing some good work delivering a view of the difficulty and nuance of human existence. But I swear to any available gods, he reverse engineered this book just to get to a scenario where it would be plausible for a flying dismembered penis to smack someone in the face.
Content warning minor character spoiler
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Anyway, the title is a lie. There was a dude who had cyberpunk implants, one of which was an electric whip that launched from his crotch. Yeah, weird book. Contains some social critique and amusing observations. This is the second in the Zoey Ashe series, and I have already started reading the third, 'Zoey is Too Drunk for this Dystopia.'
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