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Loading... The Girl Next Door (original 1989; edition 2015)by Jack Ketchum (Author)
Work InformationThe Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum (1989)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book was disturbing and unsettling. Very well written. Sad though. ( ) This book was so very hard to read, especially during the end. It was very well written, but the acts of the main characters were atrocious. Especially considering that the book was based on a true story. It brings into stark light the fact that things like this can and do happen. Daily. Great book, but I think it'll haunt me for a really long time. Pretty disturbing book. It's based on a true story of Sylvia Likens, which makes it even more heartbreaking. It's not something I would read again, but I still reflect on this book every few months and question how anyone could ever do something to such a girl without a definite reason (or any reason at all!!!) This is one of the most hopeless and depressing books I've read. It's probably more of a dark drama than horror. It's inspired by the real-life torture and murder of a teenage girl named Sylvia Likens in 1965. This story would be easier to swallow if it were completely made up. Powerful book, for sure. no reviews | add a review
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Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns, and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house, Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons and finally the entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, torturous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make . . . No library descriptions found. |
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