Book Blog: March 2009
Hangsaman: Shirley Jackson
March 17, 2009
It’s hard to go wrong with Shirley Jackson, but this definitely falls short of her other works — a shame, since an eerie true story in the hands of a great horror writer should deliver more shivers than your average fiction. There’s a vague sense of building gloom and impending doom, but the story never delivers. The theories and subplots never coagulate into anything resembling explanations or even understandable hints; it’s more confusing than creepy, and the abrupt ending is a major cop-out. Kazuo Ishiguro did it much better in A Pale View of Hills; that book had me rattled for days, while this one just felt like a waste of time.
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