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Houdini Heart (2011 original; edició 2011)

de Ki Longfellow (Autor)

Membres	Ressenyes	Popularitat	Valoració mitjana	Mencions
144	7	189,449	(3.98)	5
HOUDINI HEART harkens back to the masters of suspenseful supernatural horror: Poe, Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, but speaks with a wholly fresh voice. Once caught in its pages, there's no escaping Longfellow's terrible tale. Weeks ago, she was one of Hollywood's biggest writers, wed to one of its greatest stars. The doting mother of their golden child. But now? She's alone, tortured by a horrifying secret no woman could bear. Pursued by those she can't outrun, anguished by a guilt she can't endure, and driven close to madness, she flees to the one place she's ever called home: a small town in Vermont where River House still stands. To a child, the splendid hotel was mysterious and magical and all its glamorous guests knew delicious secrets. Cocooned in its walls, she will write one last book. Her atonement? Or her suicide note? But life is never as you dream it, and River House isn't what she'd always imagined it was. Intense, literary, and harrowing, Houdini Heart is a tale of bone-chilling horror, emotional torment, and psychological terror. Gripped by River House, trapped in an aging hotel of mirrors only Houdini could escape, how much can haunt a mind before it too is only a thing once imagined? "A haunting and disturbing journey through the psyche."--Erika Mailman, Author of "The Witch's Trinity."… (més)

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Títol:	Houdini Heart
Autors:	Ki Longfellow (Autor)
Informació:	Eio Books (2011), 254 pages
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Houdini Heart de Ki Longfellow (2011)

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I wish I could give this more stars. Well written and literate, creepy at times, but there was just no payoff for me. We finally knew what had happened, then there was the, well you know what, I won't spoil it, a good build up. Then, it was kind of: what, that's it? Reminded me of a cross between the Yellow Wallpaper and The Shining. It must have been a pretty good read because I'm a slow reader and I pretty much blew through it.

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Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |

So apparently I'm in the minority on this one. I was not a huge fan of this book. I guess that I've just read too many stories that are, themselves, composed of other stories. (That is, where a story is interrupted by pieces (or wholly) of an entirely different story, as if the protagonist stopped to recall what they'd read or are actually reading it at that point in their own story). It seems like a cheat to me - the author can't figure out how to tell the "outer" story well enough, but they've written a good chunk of an "inner" story that they can convince themselves is somehow related to the otherwise anemic outer story. So some literary surgery is performed and the two stories are conjoined.
I'm also unimpressed by glamorizing suicide.
Finally - I get bored with the whole question of "Did this really happen to the protagonist or are they crazy?"
So in the end: this book was not for me. (

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KrakenTamer | Oct 23, 2021 |

I gave Houdini Heart 3 stars too. I liked the writing style; the author is very talented, no question; and the stories about writers and Hollywood were fascinating. However, even though I was entertained, I just didn't find the story line compelling. I do have a tendency not to like "internal" novels. In fact I actually surprised myself by how much I enjoyed Julian Barnes "Sense of and Ending." I see how much everyone is enjoying this book and I almost feel guilty not loving it. (

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ChrisMcCaffrey | Apr 6, 2021 |

It's hard to explain why I didn't care for this book, because I don't want to spoil the story. The best I can do is say that nearly the entire novel is a first-person narrative told by a distraught writer living in a decrepit hotel. There's very little dialogue (if one doesn't include the writer talking to herself) and very little plot development. It's a depressing stream of misery. It has its rare moments of revelations that keep the reader limping along, which is why I can give it two stars and not one.
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tombrown | Feb 21, 2020 |

I'm at a lost for words. This book was not what I thought it would be. It was a long continuous descent into insanity. I finished it in 2 readings because there was no natural or appropriate place to leave the story. I think I need to read it again but I have to give it some time to clear my head. I gave it 4 stars, not because I enjoyed the book but because the writing is so powerful. (

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Iudita | Dec 30, 2011 |

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HOUDINI HEART harkens back to the masters of suspenseful supernatural horror: Poe, Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, but speaks with a wholly fresh voice. Once caught in its pages, there's no escaping Longfellow's terrible tale. Weeks ago, she was one of Hollywood's biggest writers, wed to one of its greatest stars. The doting mother of their golden child. But now? She's alone, tortured by a horrifying secret no woman could bear. Pursued by those she can't outrun, anguished by a guilt she can't endure, and driven close to madness, she flees to the one place she's ever called home: a small town in Vermont where River House still stands. To a child, the splendid hotel was mysterious and magical and all its glamorous guests knew delicious secrets. Cocooned in its walls, she will write one last book. Her atonement? Or her suicide note? But life is never as you dream it, and River House isn't what she'd always imagined it was. Intense, literary, and harrowing, Houdini Heart is a tale of bone-chilling horror, emotional torment, and psychological terror. Gripped by River House, trapped in an aging hotel of mirrors only Houdini could escape, how much can haunt a mind before it too is only a thing once imagined? "A haunting and disturbing journey through the psyche."--Erika Mailman, Author of "The Witch's Trinity."

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