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Title	:	House of Stairs
Author	:	William Sleator
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1991 by Puffin Books (first published 1974)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Science Fiction. Fiction. Dystopia. Horror

House of Stairs

William Sleator

Paperback | Pages: 176 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 4066 Users | 554 Reviews

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After googling different phrases for a while, I finally found the name of the book I read when I was around 12 that catapulted me into my interest into psychology and the human mind. The story of five teenagers locked in a place that consisted only of stairs and landings, the way they were trained like Pavlov's dogs to respond to the demands of a machine for food, demands that became ever more horrible. I remember reading this and being horrified by concepts I couldn't quite yet really grasp, but what stuck with me was the fact that not everyone acquiesced. The last scene of the book, with the traffic light, I think cemented my firm regard and defense of individuality, even before I could verbalize that notion. While I didn't understand it, really, as a kid, this book and the message in its story has remained with me my entire life. This would definitely be listed as one of the Impact Books in my life. I haven't re-read it as an adult yet, but I will be. It will be interesting to see how it speaks now.

Details Books As House of Stairs

Original Title:	House of Stairs
ISBN:	0140345809 (ISBN13: 9780140345803)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1976)

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Ratings: 3.85 From 4066 Users | 554 Reviews

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A gripping psycholgical tale. Five orphans caugt up and manipulated in a terrifying experiment. I cannot say I liked it--in the sense it is not meant to be liked. It is meant to make one think and that it does.To me one disturbing thing is--in no way did I feel "This could never happen". Knowing what inhumane things HAVe been done, nothing like this 'experiment' actually happening would surprise me.In only 176 pages, William Sleator delivers an unforgettable tale.Btw, although often recommended

"What if someone wrote 1984 for junior high school students, only made it creepier?" I read this book years ago, and have always remembered it because it was so disturbing. Guaranteed to give you a nightmare or two.

I first read the synopsis for this a few years ago and the concept immediately caught my attention. Set in an unknown but clearly dystopian future, we follow five kids in their early teens who are suddenly dumped alone on a never ending room of stairs. There is a machine that spits out food but only when the group perform certain actions which they have to determine by trial and error. When the machine starts rewarding violence of the physical and psychological types the kids are pushed to

I am insanely addicted attracted to stories about "the group in peril", when people are thrust into an alien setting absent of any social rules and obligations. Under such circumstances, it usually doesn't take long for humans to throw off the shackles of civilized conduct and resort to a more brutal "survival of the fittest" approach. Thats not just the pessimist in me coming out, but the realist. What we become in extremis is both fascinating and frightening in the heroic heights we reach and

Dang! Where was this book when I was younger??!? For being a few decades old, it really hasn't aged much! This psychological teen read throws five 16 year old orphans into a weird uninviting alien environment filled only with stairs. None of them know why they are there or how to escape. They wander around and find a weird machine that will give them food, only when they figure out how to meet it's weird demands. It's the 5 of them against this weird environment, what will happen if they stop

A chilling and suspenseful tale that stick with the reader for years to come.This book is recommended for 9-12 year olds, however, I think it might be a bit intense for the younger side of this group, and I, as an adult, thoroughly enjoyed Slater's treatment of this psychological horror.Personal Note: I read this book as a tween, and it stuck with me all these years. I remember not being able to put it down, and upon revisiting it, it is still just as fascinating to me. I read many of the

My, my, my, what a chilling book. Five strangers - all orphans, all sixteen years of age - are released, blindfolded, into a mammoth gleaming white room full of stairs. They find each other and congregate around a machine that dispenses food upon correct behavioural patterns. Soon they are slaves to this machine, searching for the correct patterns, doing whatever they have to do to be fed. What follows is your classic deterioration of human nature.Reading it, I was reminded a lot of the Maze