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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
Terrifying. Mainly because this is no Hollywood blockbuster, or Blair Witch project , but a story that I remember hearing about in the seventies. If you scare easily, leave it alone.
This is one of those books I finished out of my sheer inability to not finish books I've started. I wanted to read it in preparation for the new Conjuring movie, but it turns out that Ed and Lorraine Warren didn't even investigate this case!
Where to start? It was poorly written and paced; it read more like a list of these so-called poltergeist events and was riddled with typos and weird punctuation. Honestly, I feel like this could have been a good book if it was approached completely differently (and actually had an editor who was awake). The author claims to have a background in journalism and writes the story from the perspective of trying to find scientific evidence of poltergeists. It would have been way more compelling if he had dropped the scientific angle (because it all boils down to pseudoscience anyway) and just focused on the feelings. As soon as you try to try to explain anything in logical terms, it looses all semblance of spookiness. I guess the author would tell me that I'm missing the point; that the whole objective is to gather scientific evidence to prove that this otherworldly dimension exists. And I guess that's fine; but if that's the approach you're taking, don't pepper your book with statements that are purely conjecture and then call it "science." Don't use phrases like "Had he been caught in the slipstream of a passing flying saucer?" [actual quote] and expect me to take you seriously.
Don't get me wrong, I love a good ghost story and I don't completely disbelieve in the paranormal. I just think that this particular story would have been much better served if the author had approached it as a work of fiction, rather than as a work of science.
Where to start? It was poorly written and paced; it read more like a list of these so-called poltergeist events and was riddled with typos and weird punctuation. Honestly, I feel like this could have been a good book if it was approached completely differently (and actually had an editor who was awake). The author claims to have a background in journalism and writes the story from the perspective of trying to find scientific evidence of poltergeists. It would have been way more compelling if he had dropped the scientific angle (because it all boils down to pseudoscience anyway) and just focused on the feelings. As soon as you try to try to explain anything in logical terms, it looses all semblance of spookiness. I guess the author would tell me that I'm missing the point; that the whole objective is to gather scientific evidence to prove that this otherworldly dimension exists. And I guess that's fine; but if that's the approach you're taking, don't pepper your book with statements that are purely conjecture and then call it "science." Don't use phrases like "Had he been caught in the slipstream of a passing flying saucer?" [actual quote] and expect me to take you seriously.
Don't get me wrong, I love a good ghost story and I don't completely disbelieve in the paranormal. I just think that this particular story would have been much better served if the author had approached it as a work of fiction, rather than as a work of science.
adventurous
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
O livro é um amontoado de redundâncias, uma interminável volta ao início, uma constante narrativa em marcha lenta. Uma absurda perda de tempo.
Decided to read this after being intrigued by the Conjuring 2. The movie definitely embellished a lot to make the story more interesting and scary. Real story has nothing to do with the nun or all that. And it seems the Warrens didn't have much of a part either.
informative
slow-paced
Way too many typos in the Kindle edition, which prevented me from losing myself in the book. Hopefully the print edition doesn't have the same problem.