Customer Reviews

The Dead Won't Hurt You---Or Will They?: A True Tale of a Family's Haunting

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I have been studying paranormal phenomenon for 30 years. From the hundreds of books that I have read on the topic, I feel pretty qualified to be able to weed out the junk. And this was indeed junk. Poorly written, boring, not scary at all, I had trouble getting through it. The dialogue was totally stiff and unrealistic. I was distracted by her huge gaps in time, the fact that there was a disclaimer in the beginning telling the readers that her friend helped her write this book and used some of her own "experiences" in the first person - "as if" they had really happened to the author instead of her friend. What is the purpose of THAT?! Her children played such a minute part of the book that we didn't learn her son's name until the end after he was moved out. (She mentions a "Jamie" towards the end and I had to try to figure out who it was.) Did her kids have ANY strange experiences in all the years they lived there? They were barely mentioned! Most of the things that happened to the women seemed either subjective or wildly embellished. Too many examples of "conversations" with friends and neighbors who asked her about the same things, word for word as how the authors described an incident previously, as if they need to "prove" that someone else saw or felt these things too. All of the photos of the orbs in their yard - notice that the majority of the pictures contain orbs on the RIGHT side of the frame. She needs to clean her camera lens. There is a huge difference in the way orbs present themselves in photos as opposed to pieces of dust. These "orbs" are dust.

I only give it one star because that ws the lowest rating I could give. It doesn't really deserve any.

I've read just about every book of this type on the market, new and old. I've never felt compelled to write a "review," but I had to in this case: this book is just awful. It was so bad, I threw it away lest it accidentally end up in someone else's hands and they waste valuable time reading it!

I didn't like this book as well as some others mainly because the woman narrating didn't live in the house thru most of the book she just visited at times and it wasn't like a on going haunting. Also I feel she got away from the main topic of the haunting alot with useless chatter. It was o.k. but not the greatest.

This book did not explain much about the ghosts the author was dealing with, the book was filled with just unnessisary dialong and the authors fear of the paranormal she was dealing with.

IT was a good book!!!! keep you right there with them. makes you think, could it happened too you?

This is one chilling story that kept me awake! Well written, and a must read for anyone with interest in the paranormal.

This book started out a little slow but did pick up about the middle.
We find out in the end that the house was not haunted but it was the land.
The book was not a bad read just not one of the best on haunted houses.

I personally liked this book, I had a hard time putting it down. Like the old saying goes don't judge a book by its cover. I liked it so much I shared it and my sister in law also enjoyed it.

Koodos to the brave who step up and write these stories in light of those who will somehow find another explanation... If you or anyone have had any of these experiences you know how alone you can feel.. this book was written for us... in mind. Lets all keep these stories going for furture generations in the techno age! We are not alone, I have myself been haunted at one time or another since I was 9 I am now 37, and an avid collectior of these stories... this is written in story from not bogging, I am sure you will enjoy.
Feel free to write me tru_wagner@yahoo.com