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The Amityville Horror

Jay Anson

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Nov 18, 2019 Katch rated it did not like it

TL/DR: Jay Anson puts the PULP in pulp fiction - a literary achievement of paper that would hard pressed to line a birdcage. I frickin’ love the delirious idiocy of The Amityville Horror...let me count the ways in my review.

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1. When Anson wants to scare or surprise you, he greatly favors Exclamation Points!

2. TAH's author and characters are fixated on ringing telephones and the number of times each phone rings…

3. …not to mention the AMAZING number of disconnections and st ...more

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Oct 31, 2022 Monica St. Dennis rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, read-in-2022

I don't think I've ever read this book before, but I saw the movie as a teenager and have been vaguely freaked out about it for years. The scene where he turns back to the house and (view spoiler)? If I'm leaving my house when it's dark out, I still don't look back.

But this was just kind of... a long list of things? Maybe it's because I already knew that (view spoiler), but there ...more

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Feb 25, 2021 Tracy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-it-and-was-okay

I liked this a lot. It’s a short read and very different from the movie. However, parts did make me sit straight up and gave me pause. I’m glad I read it.

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