Let's Go Play at the Adams'
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Let's Go Play at the Adams'
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Narrated by:
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Matt Godfrey
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By:
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Mendal W Johnson
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"They're just kids.... It's only a game." That's what Barbara, a lovely 20-year-old babysitter told herself when she awoke bound and gagged. But the knots were tight and painful and the children would not let her go.
"They're just kids.... It's only a game," she told herself again. But the terror was real...and deadly!
In the decades since its original publication, Mendal W. Johnson's best-seller Let's Go Play at the Adams' (1974) has gained a reputation as one of the most harrowing horror novels ever written, and copies have long been unobtainable except at exorbitant prices. Now this first-ever audiobook version of the novel, read by award-winning narrator Matt Godfrey, adds a new dimension of horror to this cult masterpiece.
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Wow
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But it's not like there's no story. The story and characters are given serious focus. They are given dimension and variation. It wants to draw you into it's world. Where other books would go into as much detail as possible, making the cruelty near pornographic, this book steps back. Focusing on the characters as people, rather than dragging the misery out forever. It ends up making the book more awful in the end, because you do really pay attention to each new development in the plot wanting to see where it will go next.
Is this praise, or a warning? I don't know. It is clearly well put together on a technical level. But I can't imagine wanting to read it again. I feel like giving it a good or bad rating is a bit of of a distraction. It's not a "Good" book or a "Bad" book. Just a brutal one. And odds are you already know if you want to read a brutal book or not. But I'm leaning towards the positive in the rating, because this is not a sloppy or lazy book. No cheap shocks or trite prose. It's expertly put together. But even if you go for it, you might only read it once.
Hard to praise, hard to hate
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A group of children in prison and torture there baby sitter over a week gradually getting more and more sadistic.
I thought it was really well done .
The darkness of human behaviour explored and the curiosity and innocents of the children come through as they commit horrible acts .
It was well written and held my attention and kept me glued to it .
The righter apparently only got this book published but wrote a few more all of what were passed by by publishers and then he died a few years after ,
I would be interested what his other books were and if they were as dark .
know what you getting in for
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Really well read.
Heartbreaking. Well read
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Children tie up and torture their babysitter while their parents are out of town. Sounds like something that could happen in real life. It felt so real. That's a sign of a great book
That ending!?!?!?! Wowza
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