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Title: The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum, Stephen King, Neal McPheeters, Neal McPheeters ISBN: 0-9633397-4-5 Publisher: Overlook Connection Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.66 (38 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Closest to a five star book I've Read. 4-3/4 stars
Comment: This is a truely an Horrific Book. But if you're into sci-fi/supernatural horror, then forget about reading it. Girl next Door is about the everyday horror we humans experience called Child Abuse. This book holds no punches. I read about 200 pages and actually had to contiplate whether I wanted to finish it, not because it was bad but because it was so vivid and disturbing. It starts off like a junior high school read. I'm not sure if this is how Ketchum writes (this is my first book by him) or if he decided to write in a simplistic style because it was narrated by a twelve year old boy. Either way it's affective. It pulls you in quickly with it's simplistic style and then holds the reader captive with it's horrific details.
I know this story is based on true incidents but even if it wasn't, I completely believe that horror like this is happening even today, probably even while I'm typing this review. True evil comes in the form of Human insanity, ignorance, and learned hatred. This book slaps you in the face with that reality. Anyone that can ignore the significance of this book is probably the same people that ignore or down play our world's contributions to racism, classicism, and sexism. The characters of this book in a way represent a microcosm of what this world was,is and probably will be in the future. While we hide behind our safety nets of enjoying Science fiction and supernatural horror of the likes of Sixth Sense, The Others, and Signs, real life horrors of child abuse are happening everyday. Well, this book forces you to deal with it. It is as close to experiencing child abuse without actually being abused or witnessing abuse.
I am not saying , you will like this book, But I am saying that this book should be apart of our pop cultured, american heritage as much as Tom Sawyer,Roots or War and Peace. Child abuse is REAL,, terrifing and truely evil and this book proves it.
Rating: 5
Summary: The single, most horrifying novel I have ever read...
Comment: I had heard dark rumors for years about this guy Jack Ketchum (mostly due to his infamous OFF SEASON) but could never find any of his books. For a writer this good, his stuff is amazingly difficult to come by. Well, all I can say is if you haven't read any Jack Ketchum, get thee to the book search page and order something...ANYTHING... by this guy! His fiction is more alive and immediate than just about any other author I can think of off hand. Forget about the fact that he's lumped into the "horror" genre (not that's there's neccesarily anything wrong with that :)) -- this is just good writing. Period.
Now, about THE GIRL NEXT DOOR: Jesus H. Christ! That's all I could say after finally finishing this book in one marathon 4-hour session. This book is tough. Uncompromising. Brutal. And believe me, whatever ideas you may get based on this review or any of the others...they're WRONG. You may think you're prepared for this book after hearing us tell you about it but you're not.
Trust me. You're not.
Not remotely.
The only other thing I can think of to say is that I have rarely experienced a piece of fiction that is this horrifying and yet this honest, this psychologically and emotionally true. And that is about the highest praise I can imagine.
Read it. Now.
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly HORRIFYING
Comment: I'm not going to go into the plot of this book - there are plenty of other reviews here that do that. Instead, I simply want to encourage anybody who is on the fence as to whether or not they should buy this book (as I was a week ago) to do so immediately. You will be horrified (truly horrified as opposed to simply frightened) and your faith in humanity may even be shaken... but you will not be disappointed.
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Title: Right to Life: And 2 Stories by Jack Ketchum, Neal McPheeters, Jack Ketcham ISBN: 1887368566 Publisher: Gauntlet Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Ladies Night by Jack Ketchum, Neal McPheeters ISBN: 1887368353 Publisher: Gauntlet Pub. Date: 15 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum ISBN: 0843952164 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Lost by Jack Ketchum ISBN: 0843948760 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: OFF SEASON by Jack Ketchum ISBN: 0345294270 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 June, 1981 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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