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  <title><![CDATA[Off Season]]></title>
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  <default_description>In season, there's the tourists.  Off season, there's only the locals--and visitors like Carla.  She's on a working holiday, editing a book, but first she's got to clean up the house and play host to a bunch of friends.  Nearby, a family of barbarous humans lurks in the woods, watching, waiting to feed their unnatural hunger...And within the next few hours, a group of sophisticated people will learn just how small a step it is from civilisation--to savagery...</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1980</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jack Ketchum]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 11 11:42:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 14 20:12:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29860532">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 11 13:21:37 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 11 13:21:48 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Carla is a woman who works in editing, and after receiving a particularly easy assignment she decides to rent a cabin down by the Maine coastline. She invites a few friends to stay with her, including her younger sister Marjorie. (Yes, my name is actually used in a book!) There is plenty of drama be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77465376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77909128">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 15 18:51:31 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 19 04:28:01 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviews of anything are, by definition, mostly opinion and highly subjective. That having been said, I wonder about the artistic merit of books like this and movies like &quot;Hostel&quot;. What do they contribute, other than to establish a nadir for their respective genres? If you're going to try t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77909128">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 27 13:39:56 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 16 11:33:16 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 27 13:39:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Plot: City folk travel to rural Maine for a relaxing weekend at a cabin in the woods.  Cannibal hillbillies invade and do just what you'd imagine cannibal hillbillies would do.  <br/><br/>More tidbits about the book: The story is told in real-time and takes place over the course of about 12 hours....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46532889">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51457771">
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  <date_added>Sat Apr 04 00:44:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 04 00:45:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For me, this is the horror book to end all horror books. It is the apex of terror tales. No book has come close to topping Off Season, and I doubt that any ever will.<br/><br/>In a rural area off the coast of Maine live a tribe of cannibals. Over the decades travellers and townspeople have disappear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51457771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60481273">
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 20 22:07:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 20 22:10:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is what happens when you forget your library card and you have to buy something off the 25 cent discard shelf.  Having happy reminicent memories of reading Stephen King when I was 13 yrs old (and Mr. King had a glowing quote of praise on the cover of this book), I decided to take a risk and cho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60481273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11495319">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Off Season – Jack Ketchum<br/>Leisure – Fiction – 270 Pages<br/><br/>The second of Ketchum’s works which I’ve read raises several questions as I currently write this.  How is it that Leisure Books classifies this work (about an unevolved family of cannibalistic miscreants which party-cr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11495319">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3790285">
    <user id="47081">
    <name><![CDATA[Mark]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bethlehem, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 30 08:58:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 01 16:36:50 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this based on a recommendation from a friend, and found out soon after that apparently Stephen King's been talking this author up ever since this book, his first, came out in 1980.  This version, published last year, is &quot;the author's uncut, uncensored version.&quot;  I guess the original...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3790285">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73726855">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Nov 06 08:59:27 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's off season in the tourist town of Dead River, Maine. A woman and five of her friends gather at a cabin in the woods for some relaxation. Little do they know that they are being watched by a savage evil...<br/><br/>I really wanted to love this, being my first experience with Ketchum and my pen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73726855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33047717">
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 16 18:25:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 05 20:15:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awful.  Just stupendously, horribly, unforgivably BAD.  I made it halfway through this novel before putting it aside in utter disgust.  <em>Off Season</em> has the dubious honor of being the FIRST book I have ever intentionally not finished.<br/><br/>But--I wasn't disgusted by what you might expect.  No, i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33047717">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72708509">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 27 18:14:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fast-paced and sickening in places. Not the deepest of books, but how many books on hill-dwelling cannibal clans are going to make you reassess the way you live? Actually...<br/><br/>If I wrote a book about hill-dwelling cannibals, this would be it. Also has a nifty 'behind the publishing scenes' fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72708509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69120876">
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    <body><![CDATA[A tribe of cannibals terrorize a tourist in modern-day Maine.  Pulpy, graphically violent, and stark.  Ketchum said that his inspiration for this book was watching Night of the Living Dead and getting bummed out when the camera cut away during the goriest stuff.  He wanted a movie that wouldn't ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69120876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65439788">
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 29 13:26:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Click <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://66.146.131.168/cgi-bin/gw/chameleon?sessionid=VTLS&skin=vaughan&lng=en&inst=consortium&conf=.%2fchameleon.conf&host=localhost%2b1111%2bDEFAULT&SourceScreen=INITREQ&scant1=off%20season&scanu1=4&elementcount=1&t1=off%20season&u1=4&pos=1&itempos=1&rootsearch=SCAN&function=INITREQ&search=AUTHID&authid=996065&authidu=4">here</a> to find it in the catalogue.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65439788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58935797">
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt somewhat mislead. I didn't find Off Season to be all that frightening. The idea of a family of cannibals stalking the house ... yeah that's frightening, but the story just didn't bring that emotion to me. It's a great book and written very well. A lot of descriptions that really put you right...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58935797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74152731">
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    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're unfamiliar with Ketchum's work, there is one word that explains his horror: visceral.  Such horror is horror of the body, mental, of course, but especially physical; and it's the physical that Ketchum captures through torment, torture, dissection, and the like.  &quot;Off Season&quot; is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74152731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39038042">
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    <location><![CDATA[Placentia, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 01 11:34:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story makes the most horrific story written by King or Koontz pale in comparison. It's violent, bloody, and horrific, and very detailed. All this aside, the story is a very good one; intense and fast paced. This read isn't for the faint of heart. It truly is a horror novel in every sense of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39038042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow what a great book. A quick read and I could not stop reading. The suspense was there all the time. It reminded me of the movie Texas Chainsaw massacre.<br/>This is the second book I read by Jack Ketchum and I am going to put his other books on my wish list.<br/>There is a sequel to this one. O...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71390489">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A gory but entertaining read. Ketchum is credited with paving the way for gore writers like Richard Laymon. This version is interesting in that it was the first revision of his story. An enlightening note from Ketchum at the end reveals the pitfalls of new authors compromising to get their work publ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70637546">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Visceral and riveting horror yarn set in rural, seaside Maine isn't for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. A clan of cave-dwelling cannibals attack a group of tourists renting a cabin. The author also provides an interesting afterword on how he got the original (unedited) ms. into print.    <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57280861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ketchum's books present stories you will never forget.  This one is not for squeamish readers and has cannibalism as a central issue.  If you read it and feely yucky afterwards, don't say I didn't warn you.]]></body>
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