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Frankenbuddha - Oct 23, 2012 5:56:12 am PDT #19980 of 28370
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Question... has anyone here ever read We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson? Rec it?

What everyone else said. I loved it and Hill House tons.

I also recommend The Sundial by Jackson if you can find it (I think it's long out of print). Really strange, odd book.

Strix - Oct 23, 2012 6:48:06 am PDT #19981 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Hill House consistently gives me the wiggins, and I've read it probably 20 times. It's pitch-perfect.

DavidS - Oct 23, 2012 7:03:26 am PDT #19982 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It has one of the best first paragraphs ever:

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Strix - Oct 23, 2012 8:32:47 am PDT #19983 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

YES YES YES. It is perfect, and I love that opening para.

LOVE.

(I'd love to do a Halloween week read-along of it; wish peeps lived closer...Skype and cocktails, mebbe?)

askye - Oct 23, 2012 8:39:53 am PDT #19984 of 28370
Thrive to spite them

The movie version (the original one) is really creepy too.

DavidS - Oct 23, 2012 8:41:34 am PDT #19985 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The movie version (the original one) is really creepy too.

Indeed.

Scrappy - Oct 23, 2012 8:49:58 am PDT #19986 of 28370
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

The story is that Jackson based Hill House on the mansion whose grounds became Bennington College. It became the music building [link] . It stands on the the top of a huge hill, with woods behind it and could be kinda creepy. Her husband was a professor at Bennington.

megan walker - Oct 23, 2012 9:48:44 am PDT #19987 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Hah! That's where I read her. I hated walking by that building, especially since it was so out of the way.

askye - Oct 23, 2012 12:13:14 pm PDT #19988 of 28370
Thrive to spite them

I saw it on TCM a few years ago. When the walls started to bow in that was just creepy.

Strix - Oct 23, 2012 4:22:16 pm PDT #19989 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

But even Lili Taylor and Liam Neeson couldn't save the remake.

No matter how many times I read the scene with the girls in the room with the thumping in the corridor, it FREAKS MY SHIT.

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