The Little Stranger |
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Author:
Sarah Waters
By Virago Press Ltd
Average Customer Rating:   
List Price: £7.99
Our Price: £3.44
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781844086061
ISBN: 1844086062
Label: Virago Press Ltd
Manufacturer: Virago Press Ltd
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: 2010-01-05
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Studio: Virago Press Ltd |
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the little stranger, 2010-03-07
This book was chosen by my book group, and I started to read with some trepidation having looked at the blurb which said things like 'I had to sleep with the light on...' But I really enjoyed it, it's a page-turner, set in post-war warwickshire. Technically a ghost story I suppose, but very well written (listed for the Man Booker prize) and dwelling more on the effect of the 'happenings' on the people involved, and the way the same events can be interpreted differently by different people. Recommended!
uummmm...., 2010-03-09
Having read a lot of the reviews, I eagerly read The Little Stranger. A reasonable start, thought the bit with Gip the dog was good and thought this was the start of someting big. It then got very tedious and a little, 'blah, blah, ish' ...but I stayed with it. It picked up its pace in the middle again, but, the ending....well, what a disappointment, who was the ghost???? Or have I completely missed the point. Having not read any Sarah Waters before, not sure atfer this i will either?
A bit disappointing, 2010-03-05
Overall a good read but annoying. It's the typical "Let me stay and look after you". "Oh no I'm fine, you go home I'll be ok" .......and of course she's not fine and it's not ok! What a surprise.
Not at all scary, 2010-03-09
I confess to this being the first Sarah Waters I have read. I bought it as part of a pack of the TV bookclub books (even though I am not following that on TV) as I thought it would be a selection of interesting books to read. I was looking forward to being scared and thrilled by it, but I mostly wasn't. A few other reviewers have talked about the dreariness of the house and the flatness of the characters and I agree. The book took a long time to get going and although there were one or two marginally scary parts, I would never in a month of Sundays say that I was 'so scared I had to stop reading' as others have. Perhaps I live in a much more terrifying real world, but I don't think so!
I also thought that there was a certain amount of license - because she had other bestsellers under her belt, that allowed this to get published. If it was her first book and she was sending it off to publishers/agents, would the first 50 pages have got her a call back? I'm not sure. Not much happens in them! I did comment to my husband that I was '150 pages in and it was finaly beginning to show signs of spookiness'.
It was entertaining enough, but overlong and a bit dull. I wasn't really scared throughout it at all.
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, 2010-03-05
I listened to this story on CD, and it was enjoyable. But if I had read the book, I think it may have been boring and cumbersome in parts.
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