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The Lost

By: Jack Ketchum
Narrated by: Conner Goff
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It was the summer of 1965. Ray, Tim, and Jennifer were just three teenage friends hanging out in the campgrounds, drinking a little. But Tim and Jennifer didn't know what their friend Ray had in mind. And if they'd known, they wouldn't have thought he was serious. Then they saw what he did to the two girls at the neighboring campsite - and knew he was dead serious.

Four years later, the 60s were drawing to a close. No one ever charged Ray with the murders in the campgrounds, but there was one cop determined to make him pay. Ray figured he was in the clear. Tim and Jennifer thought the worst was behind them, that the horrors were all in the past. They were wrong. The worst was yet to come.

©2013 Dallas Mayr (P)2019 JournalStone LLC Crime Fiction Horror Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Crime Fiction
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I listened to this straight after The Girl Next Door and I have to say I really like his style. There's nothing pretentious about Ketchum. No filler to take up space or to simply indulge himself as the author. The Lost is a solid experience from start to finish and while I did read The Girl Next Door first, I would definitely recommend The Lost first as anybody's first experience with Ketchum's work. Not just because The Girl Next Door is a uniquely miserable read that many people aren't suited for, but because the multiple perspectives in The Lost really give Ketchum room to breathe and show off his skills in exploring a wide range of fully believable and compelling characters.

It should go without saying that my favourite of these was obviously Gimp the cat, but Ray Pie (great name for his character, btw) was superbly well done both in terms of exploring how a psychopath thinks and how that thinking and Pie's actions stack up against the perspectives of all the other characters. And yes, (spoilers) his ultimate fate was an excellent piece of reader catharsis which felt natural and earned rather than simply being part of a contrived ending where the villain gets his comeuppance.

Ketchum really is great

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Classic ketchum slow build to a hot fire, ignore ‘KAZS’ review I don’t think she understands that the only way to show somebody is a physcopath in a book is to show them having physcopathic tendencies and committing actions that shows that. IE the main Patagonist ray being too into himself and having sex with underage girls which is as she described is ‘gross🤮’ but a necessary part of the book. I recommend she finds a new genre and stops slating good books by long gone authours that can’t defend themselfs

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I'm not sure about this being classed as a horror story there's a lot of really weird shit going on like killing innocent girl's & Ray is just a freak who's into himself way to much Shag's anything with a pulse including underage girl's 🤮 gross!! They mention Sharon Tate & Charlie's Manson Family so where the hell did the talking cat come into the story BLOODY RIDICULOUS WON'T BE BUYING ANYTHING ELSE BY THIS AUTHOR & DON'T RECCOMMD TO ANYONE LOOKING FOR A DECENT HORROR+ THE REVIEW'S ARE BULLSHIT

KAZ🇬🇧😜 STRANGE BOOK 🥴🥴

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