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Narrated by:
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Richard Davidson
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By:
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Jack Ketchum
And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive we all are beneath the surface...and that there are no limits at all to the will to survive.
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1. He wrote it 30 years ago, so it's unfair to compare the many books that did what he tried better since then, and
2. He was simply trying to write pulp slasher fiction and didn't care about character development and can't be judged too harshly for not doing it.
The author thinks he wrote an explicit novel, but there are 1960's novels that were more explicit (Rogue Roman comes to mind). You can't hinge the success of a novel on shock, but that's what Ketchum tried to do here.
To make explicit violence work properly, you need to pair it with beauty. Ketchum doesn't build up beauty at all, so the violence is simply boring.
Finally, the book is narrated as if by a parody of Captain Kirk. I kept forgetting to listen to the novel and imagined William Shatner reading the phone book as if it were the end of the universe. Every little thing is narrated like it's a shocker, and I mean everything no matter how trivial. There's no nuance at all, no finesse. But that may be the producer's fault and not the narrator. They may have told him to do it.
When I think of fun pulp books I listened to like "Infected" or smart explicit books like "Meat" or "Kafka on the Shore" it's hard to feel like I got any value hearing Off Season, but then those books are more mature.
Mediocre at Best
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unfortunately, Richard Davidson's character voice decisions sometimes became obnoxious(particularly with woman characters) and downright confusing (when differentiating between older male characters) and I think I might've enjoyed it better if he had decided to do less voice acting. the last thing you want when LISTENING to a book is to be taken out of it by the narrator himself.
would recommend for horror fans, but maybe skip the audio book.
good book, would avoid narrator
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Sublime Narration
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awesome book!
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Aw man! Lol.
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The utterly atrocious narration ruined it.
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Instead, let me tell you what Ketchum adds to horror in this, and all his other books. Realism.
His signature brand of horror is utterly doused in it. No supernatural elements. No undulating, polymorphic, subterranean monster crawling from it's watery hole. Just gritty, unabashed human horror.
These "vultures" reside in a trash-filled, dank cave... True enough. But they also find a home in the logical part of the reader's mind. Those fears that live on the periphery of the nervous system. Those chills that can surface in broad daylight; because they are human fears, with human origins.
If you are a thirty-six year old man who worries about a chance run-in with a vampire - you may cause your friends to worry. However, the concern over the neighborhood adult who spends too much time with children, or the town dreg who seeks retribution on a society that he feels has wronged him, or (in this case) the inbred family who is responsible for a number of recent disappearances... well, that is only logical.
Another tasty read by Ketchum.
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Nice!
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Splendid Horror
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awesome
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