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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
Full review to come, but until then...
* YAAYYY for the story tie-in with a very familiar address!
** Now a major motion picture? Really... I must find this cinematic adventure.
*** found it - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451102/
Have you read this book, AND the one I referenced above?
My brain won't stop circling around the 'SFSIR' timeline, and I need you to make it stop!!
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* YAAYYY for the story tie-in with a very familiar address!
** Now a major motion picture? Really... I must find this cinematic adventure.
*** found it - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451102/
Have you read this book, AND the one I referenced above?
My brain won't stop circling around the 'SFSIR' timeline, and I need you to make it stop!!
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I read [b:Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road|19264563|Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road|Brian Keene|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386433691s/19264563.jpg|27311377] almost as soon as it was published - in December of 2013. I finished [b:The Lost|179742|The Lost|Jack Ketchum|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1387700970s/179742.jpg|2619327] today, originally published March 28th 2001, and reprinted July 30, 2013. Both publication dates precede [b:Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road|19264563|Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road|Brian Keene|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386433691s/19264563.jpg|27311377], so... is there another explanation to the address drop in [b:The Lost|179742|The Lost|Jack Ketchum|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1387700970s/179742.jpg|2619327]? Are there other books referencing Stirrup Iron Road - before the house at Sixty-Five got it's very own story? ;)Read Free with Kindle Unlimited
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is the third book by this author that I've read and my least favorite of the three, even counting the crazy cannibal story. It wasn't boring but not super great. It really did feel like an odd mix of Stephen King and Lois Duncan.
Kinda bored reading this one due to pacing. I suppose the point is to show that when a criminal commit a crime like this, there are many factors that could spark this with misogyny and homophobia being the early red flags. Still, the middle of the book can feel like it's really dragging on and on before the final part.
The violence in here is to be expected from Jack Ketchum's book, but using sexual assaults against men as poetic justice, using HIV as a punishment, and using a black man as a rapist are disappointing.
The violence in here is to be expected from Jack Ketchum's book, but using sexual assaults against men as poetic justice, using HIV as a punishment, and using a black man as a rapist are disappointing.
Eh. "Girl Next Door" was better. It's a fast read though.
I don't love every Ketchum book I read but he is one of my favorite authors. There were technical things that I really disliked about this novel but the story was perfect, perfect as only Ketchum can quite accomplish. I rarely give 5 star reviews but this has to be one of them. I just finished this afternoon so I have to let it all process before I can comment further.
I absolutely love Jack Ketchum's books. Fast-paced writing style and horribly disturbing stories.
slow-paced
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Stephen King has called Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door one of the best books ever written. Previous to that, Ketchum was the horror world's best-kept secret, the Einsturzende Neubauten of scary stories: influential to just about everyone working in the field, unknown outside it. Now, thanks to one offhand sentence in one very widely read treatise on how to write, Jack Ketchum has become collectible overnight. Don't try to find a copy of The Girl Next Door unless you're willing to pay [a lot] for a dogeared reading copy. But Ketchum has released a brand-spanking-new one recently, and until you come up with the scratch for the out-of-print monsters, this'll do just fine, thankyouverymuch.
The Lost tells the story of Ray Pye, sociopath extraordinaire, who kills a camper and puts another one on life support in 1965, then waltzes off scot free because no one can put him at the scene, find the murder weapon, or any other useful little prosecutorial trick for actually convicting someone. Most of the book's four hundred pages take place four years later, in the weeks following the death of the second camper after spending the intervening time in a coma and hooked to a life support system. (...)
The question almost everyone who picks this book up is going to be asking himself is "is this guy really as good as Steve King says he is?" Yup. He's that good. The question I ended up asking myself is "why is this guy considered a horror writer?" The Lost is your basic detective story where you know who the killer is from page one and the tension rests on the cops trying to pin the murders on the killer. It's no more horror than the stuff Joe Lansdale's been writing since Savage Season; it sits nestled firmly in the crook of the arm between mystery and thriller. (...) But there's more to it than that. Ketchum has a sense of delicacy one doesn't find much in either horror novels or mysteries, and he knows how to use conscious symbolism-- almost unheard of in genre fiction of any sort. Granted, it gets spread a little thick at times, but it's amazing to see it at all. Add it all up and note that Ketchum never pulls a single punch throughout and you've got yourself one serious bang-up ride waiting to happen. I suggest taking it as soon as you can.
The Lost tells the story of Ray Pye, sociopath extraordinaire, who kills a camper and puts another one on life support in 1965, then waltzes off scot free because no one can put him at the scene, find the murder weapon, or any other useful little prosecutorial trick for actually convicting someone. Most of the book's four hundred pages take place four years later, in the weeks following the death of the second camper after spending the intervening time in a coma and hooked to a life support system. (...)
The question almost everyone who picks this book up is going to be asking himself is "is this guy really as good as Steve King says he is?" Yup. He's that good. The question I ended up asking myself is "why is this guy considered a horror writer?" The Lost is your basic detective story where you know who the killer is from page one and the tension rests on the cops trying to pin the murders on the killer. It's no more horror than the stuff Joe Lansdale's been writing since Savage Season; it sits nestled firmly in the crook of the arm between mystery and thriller. (...) But there's more to it than that. Ketchum has a sense of delicacy one doesn't find much in either horror novels or mysteries, and he knows how to use conscious symbolism-- almost unheard of in genre fiction of any sort. Granted, it gets spread a little thick at times, but it's amazing to see it at all. Add it all up and note that Ketchum never pulls a single punch throughout and you've got yourself one serious bang-up ride waiting to happen. I suggest taking it as soon as you can.