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Summary: I don't understand all the 5 star reviews....
Review: I hate being the lone disenter, but while this book had some good points, it certainly wasn't great. The main character wasn't very sympathetic, the premise struck me as odd (a para-normal investigator who doesn't believe in "ghosts" but does believe in appartitions....what?), the relationships were underdeveloped, and the conclusion was so heavily hinted at I figured most of it out shortly after the arrival to the haunted house. I won't discuss the ending, but it also left me puzzeled, as no reason was given as to why a specific character hated the main character SO much.All in all, good atmosphere, some spooky situations, but disjointed story.
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Summary: I don't understand all the 5 star reviews....
Review: I hate being the lone disenter, but while this book had some good points, it certainly wasn't great. The main character wasn't very sympathetic, the premise struck me as odd (a para-normal investigator who doesn't believe in "ghosts" but does believe in appartitions....what?), the relationships were underdeveloped, and the conclusion was so heavily hinted at I figured most of it out shortly after the arrival to the haunted house. I won't discuss the ending, but it also left me puzzeled, as no reason was given as to why a specific character hated the main character SO much. All in all, good atmosphere, some spooky situations, but disjointed story.
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Summary: Can't be criticised
Review: I purchased this book because I was in the mood for a good ghost story. I was not disappointed. At one point when I was reading the book, and it was a cold and blustery night outside, the telephone rang and I jumped through the ceiling! Recommend it to anyone in the mood for a good scare.
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Summary: This is the best ghost story that I have ever read.
Review: I rented the movie "Haunted" on a whim and was scared out of my wits. I couldn't wait to get my hands on the book on which it had been based. It was truly excellent. I would love to read more by this man, but so much is out of print!
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Summary: disappointed--big time!
Review: I'm just your everyday middle-class book reader who picked this book up at a used book store. The book started out promising and kept my attention. For me to really like a book, I like to "like" the character(s)--feel for them, want them to succeed, or whatever. I just never got caught up with Ash. I wanted to, but the story just stopped! I thought . . . ok--there's either got to be a sequel, or I am incredibly disappointed. Surprise ending? There wasn't an ending--it just ran out of pages! I found out there is a sequel--"The Ghosts of Sleath," but that review sounds like it's the same characters in a different town. I was really bumbed at the end. Sorry--I wanted to like it!
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Summary: Vies with The Magic Cottage
Review: I'm not sure which I like best, this or the Magic Cottage. Probably joint first of Herbert's novels. Haunted is one of those rare ghost stories where the ending completely catches you by surpise. Like the film, Sixth Sense.
Without giving it away, this isolated english rural house is the setting for the erstwhile reporter, David Ash, to unravel an old, old ghost who is claimed to be haunting the current inhabitants. Simplistically told, well drawn, I dare anyone to guess what's really going on.
Oh, and there was a film made of this with Anthony Andrews a while back whose screenplay is as good as this original ghost story. I recommend watching it as well
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Summary: a great chiller with a disturbing atmosphere! try it!
Review: its a great book with many unpleasent surprises which make you chilly and surprised....it feels as if your inside the book, playing the character, butscared to find out what going on on the next page. awsome book!
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Summary: A slightly different ghost thriller.
Review: James Herbert's Haunted is a surprisingly complex ghost story that, while considerably more low key than his notorious, and quite gruesome, rat novels, does deliver the required chills as well as a mystery with a secret that will haunt long after the book has concluded. The lead character, David Ash, appears again in The Ghosts of Sleath, a sort of sequel to this. Recommened not only to Herbert fans, but to ghost story addicts everywhere.
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Summary: A great book of the unexplained
Review: One of the few "ghost stories" that I have read and actually liked, this book is even better than the Ghosts of Sleath, which was a wonderful book in it's own right. David Ash is a master debunker of "ghosts" but in Haunted, he's confronted with the real thing. Has one of the most gripping endings in recent memory.
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Summary: A great book of the unexplained
Review: One of the few "ghost stories" that I have read and actually liked, this book is even better than the Ghosts of Sleath, which was a wonderful book in it's own right. David Ash is a master debunker of "ghosts" but in Haunted, he's confronted with the real thing. Has one of the most gripping endings in recent memory.
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