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The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
Gerald Brittle
3.53 AVERAGE
160 reviews for:
The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
Gerald Brittle
3.53 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
3.5 star for me, I tried to physically read this book a few times but DNF it. However audible came through and I finished and enjoyed the book that way. For me this read completely like fiction and had very little evidence to convince me for the truth. At times some of the descriptions and narrative read like it was straight from a script and other times you could tell these incidents were created into movies. Overall creepy enjoyable time but not amazing.
I won this book in one of the giveaways. I've just started it and can't put it down. This book was informative and slightly scary. Couldn't put it down.
dark
informative
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informative
slow-paced
I was a bit disappointed in the amount of religious information given. There is no mention about the faith life of the formerly oppressed or possessed following exorcism, something which (I have heard Lorraine Warren state in an interview) is absolutely necessary for the exorcism to be successful. Perhaps it was left out in an attempt to make the book more appealing to a general audience. However, if it truly is essential then it should not have been omitted.
Also I find it strange that they told an oppressed family to leave their house after stating earlier in the book that if you leave that the entities will follow you, which they did. There is no explanation given why they needed to leave, and this makes the book seem inconsistent.
Also I find it strange that they told an oppressed family to leave their house after stating earlier in the book that if you leave that the entities will follow you, which they did. There is no explanation given why they needed to leave, and this makes the book seem inconsistent.
so right off the back, i'm not gonna lie: this book scared the living shit out of me. however, i'm extremely glad i read it. the way it's set up is like you're reading an interview. the book is almost entirely dialog - either from Ed and Lorraine Warren, answering questions they frequently get asked from other interviews and lectures they've given, or dialog from tape recordings they've chosen to share pertaining to specific cases they've been apart of. which i extremely liked - i felt like i was sitting in a room with Ed and Lorraine themselves listening to them tell me about their experiences. and the way they speak is not to frighten you, but to inform you (but if you're anything like me, they'll do both). the author also shares his sources, uses footnotes to allot where we can learn more about the certain subject at hand, and mentions he had several clergymen who were also involved in the cases with the Warrens to read and confirm the contents of the stories before the book was published. i thought the book was fantastic - and extremely interesting; even if i was paranoid to the point where i scared myself half to death some nights. i'd suggest not reading it right before you go to bed.
I bailed after not very much of this book. I really was interested to read more about Ed & Lorraine Warren - the couple featured in The Conjuring series, which I love. However, the writing in this is sooo bad, so so bad. Do not recommend.
Gerald Brittle offers a very vivid and precise account of Ed and Lorraine Warren's joint-career as ghost hunters and demonologist/clairvoyant duo. There's a heavy use of italicizing here, which made the tone at times a little too fawning or exclamatory. A different writer could have made some of the anecdotes much more chilling. Brittle straddles a line between true ghost story creepies and amateur biographer.
I'd prefer not to think about what I've just read because now I have so much more to worry about. That being said, I liked the anecdotes of the cases the Warrens have worked on. I wish there had been more and less straight narration. I loved the last line of the book; it was probably one of the best last lines of any book I've read.
Discovering that Ed Warren was told by a demon to "In the name of Jesus Christ, shut up" is what earned this book 5 stars.
That's it. The sole reason.
That's it. The sole reason.