- Hardcover: 350 pages
- Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications (May 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1587670216
- ISBN-13: 978-1587670213
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 821 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,223,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
This prose equivalent of an X-rated slasher flick is the sort of nasty book that gives horror a bad name which is a pity, since Ketchum (the pseudonym of Dallas Mayr) writes with genuine skill; he knows precisely what he wants and can manipulate his readers as easily as he does his characters. Ketchum's 1996 novel, The Girl Next Door, gained him deserved fame and notoriety. Its subtext of inhumanity on a larger, national scale beyond that of the novel's punk protagonists was felt, and gave an unpleasant story a special significance. In subsequent books, such as 1999's The Right to Life, the subtext has all but vanished, while the violence level has gone way up. Take the prologue to the present novel. In June 1965, in the northwest New Jersey lakes area, sick teenager Ray Pye satisfies his need for a new thrill by shooting two young women campers because they appear to be "lesbos." ("The one still standing had given him a clean head-shot and he'd taken her out with a single shot to the eye.") The police suspect Ray committed the crime, leaving one victim dead and the other on life support, but can't prove his guilt. Retribution comes four years later. After a m‚lange of sex, drugs, foul language and every clich‚ associated with human weakness as well as the Vietnam War era, a host of relentlessly wafer-thin characters die in a climactic maelstrom of blood. Ketchum pulls in the Manson-Tate murders in an attempt at relevance, allowing one of the more sensitive characters to muse, "basically, the world sucked." That's about as deep as this book gets.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
It was the summer of 1965. Ray, Tim, and Jennifer were just three teenage friends hanging out in the campgrounds, drinking a little. But Tim and Jennifer didn't know what their friend Ray had in mind. And if they'd known, they wouldn't have thought he was serious. Then they saw what he did to the two girls at the neighboring campsite--and knew he was dead serious.
Four years later, the 60s were drawing to a close. No one ever charged Ray with the murders in the campgrounds, but there was one cop determined to make him pay. Ray figured he was in the clear. Tim and Jennifer thought the worst was behind them, that the horrors were all in the past. They were wrong. The worst was yet to come. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
He never disappoints,
By b b (Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Lost (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the 3rd novel I've read by him, and I must say that he never disappoints me. He's just as good as, if not even a bit better than, Stephen King, James A Moore, Richard Laymon, and Simon Clark.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Better than it sounds,
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This review is from: The Lost (Mass Market Paperback)
I won't go into the plot or story line , there are plenty of other reviews that do that, I'll just say that this is a very good book. After reading the discription of the book I was't thrilled to get it. Being a Ketchum fan I finally got around to reading it and was suprised. Jack Ketchum has a great flow in this book, the way he weaves the characters togeather throughout the story with little snippits of history and the time and feel of the lated 60's was well done. This is billed as a horror story but came acorss to me as more of a slice-of-life in small town story with a murder (ok multiple murders)involved. THIS IS A GOOD BOOK - READ IT.
4.0 out of 5 stars
It wasn't trully horror, but it was a nice book.,
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This review is from: The Lost (Hardcover)
This book is about a young male named Ray, who basically has friends name Tim and Jennifer (who he is sleeping with)who are afraid of him because of the murders that he did in the woods. A cop who wants to nail him for the murder won't let Ray alone. Ray has to have what he wants and because he doesn't, he basically sets it off. I love the ending because you think you know what is gonna happen or atleast think the author would make you feel good in the end but he doesn't. Well in a way he does, that part you will have to laugh about. But I trully thought this book would be like Stephen King horror, but in the end it was reality horror. Something that could actually happen. Real life drama. It's nice.
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