Comments on: The Amityville Horror

By: Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » The Amityville Curse: Fact & Fiction

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:11:26 +0000

[...] Hans Holzer really hates Jay Anson’s THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. He refers to it as “sensational” – and not in a good way – and won’t even [...]

By: Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » The Killer Book of True Crime: Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Murder and Mayhem

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:01:07 +0000

[...] toilet read. The longer pieces – on such star criminals as Charles Whitman, Charles Manson or AMITYVILLE’s Ronald DeFeo Jr. – lag, like weak summaries of stories we’ve heard told before, and better. [...]

By: brendan

brendan — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:09:42 +0000

I remember my parents reading it at the beach on our summer vacation. I read it when they weren’t looking and it scared me silly (I was about 11 years old).

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:46:04 +0000

I get what you’re saying, but I’ve got too many good books on my plate already to waste time on something I probably won’t like.

By: Rod Lott

Rod Lott — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:24:19 +0000

I still had a fun time revisiting the book. It’s just not that *good.*

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:23:14 +0000

It’s too bad those flies aren’t in it. I never read the book, but I remember thumbing through my cousin’s copy of the book and being freaked out by the flies and my cousin’s explanation for them. Beyond that, I haven’t much interest in the book and your review cements that.