The Haunting of Hill House

Thankfully this was a very short book. The “unreliable narrator” is definitely not for me. Also, this is not a “horror” book; it's “slightly chilling for half a chapter”. I was pretty darn disappointed and Shirley Jackson's writing style didn't help much. I dug her prose well enough, but its point seemed to want to confuse the reader more than enlighten her story, and I wouldn't read another book from her because of it.

I understand this is considered a classic of the genre, but as we all know from reading shite books in high school, classic does not necessarily mean good. A lot of people love this book; deciding in their head what has been happening all along, but like all books and movies that try to pull this crap on me, I don't want to waste my time only to find out that there is no resolution to the story and I'm supposed to figure it out myself. You and I both know, Shirley, that you have a resolution in your head. Don't try to be clever (or lazy) and not give it to me. Pretentious, I say!