Books by William Peter Blatty
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review 1: While an effective haunted house story that also deals with spirituality, I personally found the characters to be very obnoxious, particularly Terence Dare. In conversations between characters, I sometimes found it hard to keep track of who was saying what. However, despite these...
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review 1: Crazy was a cute little story. It's all in the title. Crazy. At times I was confused as to what was actually happening. The writting jumped around a bit. But the story itself was nostalgic and quirky and the ending made me smile. When I picked up the book, it was because I rather...
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review 1: It's not been easy for me to rate this novel. At the beginning I was not really sure I liked it, because it was too slow-paced, and it was not quite clear where all that was heading to. Then the second part engaged me more and more, although there were still too many things I did...
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review 1: No me ha gustado nada.La verdad es que parece increíble que este libro esté escrito por el mismo autor de la magistral novela El Exorcista! Elsewhere me ha parecido muy mala. El estilo es horroroso, de muy mala calidad y muy simplón, los personajes y sus diálogos no son nada natu...
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review 1: I picked this up in a remainder pile, wondering what Blatty had written in recent decades. A lot of readers, to judge from Amazon reviews, didn't like this because it was no Exorcist. Well, DUH! This was a full 4 decades after Exorcist -- I certainly HOPED the author had moved on...
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review 1: I want to love this book because it was so important to Blatty. The story could have been terrific but it failed in the execution. To wit: it required an epilogue in which the characters sit around and explain to each other - and you - what just happened. Oof. And frankly I consi...