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     House is a very complex book. I'm not even sure how to describe it. Ted Dekker always has very complex books that are just like all over the place. I haven't read any of Frank Peretti's books before but I know he's really good too. And together they make a wonderful, mind binding book that will take you on a real trip. There's twists and turns on every page, you really can't predict House at all. Once you think you know what's up, it goes in a completely oppisite direction. House is the one true house of horrors. In it you see youself, your heart and all its evil, for what you really are. It's your worst nightmare. But the only way out is to go in - whether you make it out alive or not is a whole other ballgame.

     House takes place in the back woods of Alabama. An estranged couple, Jack and Stephanie Singleton, are on their way to the city to go to marriage counseling. When the road is closed they meet a very strange cop that acts like he's some old west gunslinger. He tells them a different route to the city but to be careful and stay in the car, the "backwoods inbreds" live out that way. Jack and Stephanie get in an one car accident and have to walk to find the nearest help but only find an old run down hotel in literally the middle of no where. There they meet Randy and Leslie, two co-workers on their vacation they got into a similar accident and also walked to the hotel. The four of them are all in the same boat. The owners of the hotel are the kind of people the cop warned them of. Betty the creepy wife and mother, Stuwart the terrifying, violent husband and father, and Pete the son with some serious mental and social problems. They warn the terrified guests to stay out of the basement no matter what happens. That rule is not obeyed. The hotel has no phone, no way to contact the outside world for help. Then he comes to this house of horrors

     His name is Barsidious White but he is known as The Tin Man because of the tin mask he wears over his face. The FBI and police have been trying to catch this murder for years but he never leaves a trace, only the bodies in old run down houses of those who fell into his horrific "game."  His game is simple. There is three rules. After scaring his newest victims into the living room, White throws a tin can down the chimney with the rules of his game on it. The can reads, "Welcome to my house. House Rules: 1. God came into my house and I killed him. 2. I will kill anyone who comes into my house as I killed God. 3. Give me one dead body and I might let rule 2 slide. Game ends at dawn."

 

"One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn."

 

House is a book that makes you think about yourself and reveiw the kind of person you are. You see your own

evils and sickness. But you may also find the good in you. House will take you into the minds of a couple of a

failing marriage because of the death of their daughter, and a woman who was abused in her childhood. And it will also take you into the mind of a very demented killer...

 

"If all good things came to those who waited, and he was waiting for evil to work its magic, did that make evil

good? If he was waiting for the hour of the killing, did that make killing good?

Killing one person makes you a murder. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you

God.

In the end he would be God, because the game being played behind these dirty white walls wasn't like the

game all people played everywhere, every day, every last dirty one of them.

In the end they all killed; they all died; they would all rot in hell."

 

The mind of Barsidious White

pages 97-98

 

"There were two ways for Leslie to look at her predicament: she had escaped the beast, or she had simply taken a long and terrible dive over the lip of the frying pan and into the fire.

Or into hell. Honestly, she didn't know which."

 

When Leslie is caught by Pete

page 119

 

"'Jack,' a soft voice said.

He whirled around to the sound of the girl's voice. Susan stood in a doorway at the end of the foyer, near the stairs.

Tin Man's metal mask hung from her right hand.

Jack was too stunned to speak.

She dropped the mask to the floor where it clattered noisily.

'What's...?' He wasn't even sure what to ask.

'Will you listen to me now?' she asked.

Jack took three steps and stood beside Leslie, who gawked at the sight. There was something unnerving about the way Susan appeared, standing there in her tattered white dress with the killer's mask by her feet."

 

Susan, Jack and Leslie.

page 297

 

"'The ultimate haunted house,' Jack said, staring at the portraits again. 'We've been facing ourselves this whole

time.' He turned to Stephanie. 'Our own sins are haunting us.'"

 

Jack, discovering the secrets behind the house

page 329

 

"Tin Man breathed hard and slow behind the mask. Jack's mindspun through the most glaring elements of this mad moment.

Element: This was their last chance. Dawn was here.

Element: Tin Man was lying. He would kill them both anyway.

Element: Tin Man had always wanted them to kill Susan, so he probably wasn't lying.

Element: He owed Stephanie his life. He'd badly mistreated her in this last year of mourning. She didn't deserve to die. He had to save her.

Element: He couls save her with one swing of the ax in his hands.

Element: He could never swing the as in his hands at Susan!"

 

Jack's conflict and tension

page 354-355

 

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