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Off Season - Unexpurgated Hard Cover Edition - Community Reviews back

by Jack Ketchum
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My Book Blog
My Book Blog rated it 13 years ago
I read Off Season The Unexpurgated Edition. I never read the edited version, but Ketchum says the editors at Ballantine were pure hell. Luckily this edition doesn't puss out on the ending. It was awesome.This also reminds me of the movie Cujo. 'They' wanted a happy ending, and the boy lived. In the ...
Marvin's Bookish Blog
Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it 14 years ago
This is a re-read . I originally read Off Season when it was first published in 1980. The emotional experience was like a flash flood. After I read it, I couldn't get the violent images and the primitive power of this novel out of my mind. Ketchum's verbal blood feast was a seminal moment in horror ...
wbebout
wbebout rated it 16 years ago
Easily one of the most brutal books I have read. I did read the version that was unbutchered by the editors. The pace was fast and easily read in a day. I do not cringe at gore and in some books I feel gore is placed just for the shock value and does not add to the pleasure of the story. I do no...
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