The Little Stranger
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 | Product Details: Paperback 512 pages Release Date: 05 January 2010 Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1844086062 Rating:   Sales Rank: 665 | | Look for similar books by subject: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: Very disappointed (02 September 2010)Having just read and hugely enjoyed Fingersmith, I invested in this latest offering from Sarah Waters with expectation of a thumping good read. How disappointing ! It was plodding and slow. I didn't care for any of the characters portrayed and unusually for me, gave up halfway through.Mind you, I'd just finished reading the Millenium Trilogy, so any book would have to work hard to hold a torch to that. This didn't even strike a match. A very well written shaggy dog story (23 August 2010)I love everything that Sarah Waters writes and I gave this book only one star not because it's not a good book in itself but because it does not do what it says on the tin (or the cover to be more precise). I know how well Waters can twist a story (take Fingersmith for example) and I was sorely disappointed when this book did not deliver the same punch. I didn't find it spooky either. Emporer's new clothes? Probably. Worth reading if you are a Waters fan through and through but not if you just want a good read. Sorry. Another cracker (19 August 2010)Yet another splendid un-put-downable read from Sarah Waters. Very different from the Victorian settings for the earlier works but superb nonetheless. I need to read it again in order to drink in all the tiny details and check that I didn't miss anything. Highly recommended. waters (17 August 2010)great if you like slow ghost stories.the poverty stricken landed gentry v the poverty stricken peasantry. Excellent book, ending was a let-down! (17 August 2010)Took this book on holiday with me after purchasing it a few months ago and not getting round to reading it. My holiday home was a lonely 5 bedroom house in Ireland that was quiet and remote at night, therefore i got halfway through the book and stopped reading because i was scaring myself to death. Back to busy London and i got down to work to finish the book it became very spooky and i had trouble sleeping, fast track to a major let-down ending and im so confused that im actually quite cross i spent all my spare time reading. In short its an excellent read upto the last few pages, Sarah Waters is an amazing author with a talent for descriptive narrative and period writing however i feel she has tried to be a bit too clever with the ending and it doesnt work, im thinking The Thirteenth Tale which had a satisfying ending. | |
