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I nominate Montresor's post (and Cails' post within) from the "Worst Book Ever" thread, for vividly describing a book I hope I never come across. 
http://kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=679030#679030
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For the life of me, I can't remember the author or the title to this book...
When I was in 7th grade (12 years old, 1980) I found a paperback of a horror book in my mmath class. It was about a high school girl who was babysitting for a family of 4 or 5 kids for 2 weeks. No sooner did the parents leave than the older boys hit her over the head and tied her to a bed. Throughout the course of the book she was repeatedly raped (not a single character was over 16), sodomized, beaten, and tortured. The night before the parents returned, the kids tied her to the fence and pushed a hot fireplace poker through her abdomen until she died.
I read this book 26 years ago, and it still sticks to me. I can't remember if there was a point to it, of if it was just sadistic. I'd actually like to read it again to see if it really is as detestable as I remember it. |
By all accounts...well, almost all, Let's Go Play at the Adams', by Mendal Johnson is a masterpiece of suspense fiction. I've never read it (though I do want to), though take a look at the reviews left on Amazon. It's clear that the book isn't exactly intended as pornography (it kind of sounds like it doesn't deliver on those grounds), and is instead an attempt to A shock the hell out of the reader, and B pass some commentary on how the murder of 16-yr-old Sylvia Likens (in 1965) may have happened. From what I understand, Let's Go Play at the Adams' isn't meant to be a direct version of the Likens' murder, though the inspiration seems clear.
I'm intrigued, especially if the glowing reviews of the author's power and literary style are justified, so I may just order it and give it a go. Not that I'm expecting a pleasant or comfortable read . . . |
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| matrixman wrote: | I nominate Montresor's post (and Cails' post within) from the "Worst Book Ever" thread, for vividly describing a book I hope I never come across.
http://kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=679030#679030
| Montresor wrote: | | Cail wrote: |
For the life of me, I can't remember the author or the title to this book...
When I was in 7th grade (12 years old, 1980) I found a paperback of a horror book in my mmath class. It was about a high school girl who was babysitting for a family of 4 or 5 kids for 2 weeks. No sooner did the parents leave than the older boys hit her over the head and tied her to a bed. Throughout the course of the book she was repeatedly raped (not a single character was over 16), sodomized, beaten, and tortured. The night before the parents returned, the kids tied her to the fence and pushed a hot fireplace poker through her abdomen until she died.
I read this book 26 years ago, and it still sticks to me. I can't remember if there was a point to it, of if it was just sadistic. I'd actually like to read it again to see if it really is as detestable as I remember it. |
By all accounts...well, almost all, Let's Go Play at the Adams', by Mendal Johnson is a masterpiece of suspense fiction. I've never read it (though I do want to), though take a look at the reviews left on Amazon. It's clear that the book isn't exactly intended as pornography (it kind of sounds like it doesn't deliver on those grounds), and is instead an attempt to A shock the hell out of the reader, and B pass some commentary on how the murder of 16-yr-old Sylvia Likens (in 1965) may have happened. From what I understand, Let's Go Play at the Adams' isn't meant to be a direct version of the Likens' murder, though the inspiration seems clear.
I'm intrigued, especially if the glowing reviews of the author's power and literary style are justified, so I may just order it and give it a go. Not that I'm expecting a pleasant or comfortable read . . . |
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