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Title: The Elitist Snobs Next Door
Review: Yuck. When the main character of a novel is talking about things like lunch and tennis "at the club", or referring to new poeple as "not of our set" I have a hard time developing a lot of sympathy for them. I realize this was written in 1978, but I was around in '78 and knew no one as insanely pretentious as the characters in this book. I think this was my favorite bit; "The women wore polyester pants or shifts, and some had fat plastic curlers in their hair. They gazed impassively at the house, and looked with slanting suspicion over at our house and at the other houses on the street, as if knowing their paths would never lead them to streets and houses like this, and resenting it." Wow. Really? I guess I must be of The Polyester Pants Suit Set. Aside from the cultural atmosphere that I found completely alien, this book just wasn't scarey. The explanation of the "haunting" was completely week, and the ending was silly.
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