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Title: Red by Jack Ketchum ISBN: 0-8439-5040-4 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful and disturbing novel
Comment: "Red" is the kind of book you can't put down once you start it and you will read it to the bittersweet ending. Its the story of an elderly man with a dog named Red he loves more than life. A simple lonely man, he has few good things in his life after losing family members tragically years before. On the day, he takes his dog fishing with him, three boys come along, rob him and shoot his dog for no reason. After this, he tries to seek justic for the murdered dog, but two of the boys are rich and from a powerful family. Each thing he tries is thwarted until he takes matters into his own hand.
This book is depressing and thought-provoking. As a dog lover, I identified with Avery especially with his feelings at the loss of his pet. This book is about how little the law protects animals and as well as showing the problems of class still prevalent in our society. It is not a horror novel, but a classic novel of love and vengeance. Its one of the best books by Ketchum I've read and its great.
Good from beginning to end, Red will stay with you long after the last page. A great, great novel!
Rating: 5
Summary: Economic prose that hits hard
Comment: I admit I am one of the people who bought this book because of the praise from Stephen King. Mr. King has never let me down with his suggestions on great writers. He turned me on to Larry McMurtry, Bentley Little, Donald Westlake and Jack Ketchum.
"Red"'s strength is it gets right to the point. Ketchum does not meander in subplots that, while build character, takes you away from the main point of the novel- struggle for power. Ketchum is able to show the measure of a person's character in the course of the story's action.
"Red" is a quick and exciting read. One of those books you get so involved in you put off everything else until you are done.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not what I expected
Comment: I've been hearing the name Jack Ketchum for a while now and finally decided to read one of his books. There are so many 5 star reviews here for Red I have to wonder if I read the same book. I was incredibly disappointed. The writing itself is nothing more than competent. The characters are cardboard cutouts standing in for real people and the plots are wholly unoriginal. The story seems to be there mainly for Ketchum to set up violent scenes just for the sake of having violent scenes.
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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: Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum ISBN: 0843952164 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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: The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum, Stephen King, Neal McPheeters ISBN: 1892950618 Publisher: Overlook Connection Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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