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  <title><![CDATA[The Girl Next Door]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1989</original_publication_year>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 01 18:17:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the leanest, nastiest books I've ever read. I consume a good deal of horror fiction, but this one really took some fortitude to get through certain sequences. It tells a fictionalized account of the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens. Here's something from the wikipedia entry on the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3939455">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Apr 25 11:56:27 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rating this book is one of the most difficult ratings I've done. On one hand, this is an extremely well written book. The characters feel real, you care about the ones you are supposed to care about, and genuinely loath those you aren't. The scenes are set well and it is very clear as to what is hap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20973915">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 20 07:33:58 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why is it always so hard to admit that I like Stephen King?  (You see that?  Right there!  Even then, when I did kind of admit it, I made sure to censor myself, and under-exaggerate how I really feel...)<br/><br/>All right, fine.  I love Stephen King.  And I promise to spare you any rantings and r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2127549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41953630">
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    <body><![CDATA[In reviewing &quot;American Psycho,&quot; all the other reviews from folks who said they wished the book did not exist struck a chord within me. AP never affected me that strongly, but I knew there was a book I felt that way about...oh yes!!! GIRL NEXT DOOR.<br/><br/>I wish this book did not exist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41953630">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21134785">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jul 18 19:06:42 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally something that lives up to the hype!  This book has a reputation as being one of the most disturbing things ever and did not disappoint.  Ketchum begins by expertly crafting the idyllic world of 1950's suburbia as seen through the eyes of the white, preteen boy.  All of the horrific scenes t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21134785">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13163845">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Behold, the holy grail of horror novels is back in print. The Girl Next Door has been on my to-read list since forever, but good luck finding a battered paperback on Ebay for less than $60.<br/>Well, May 2005 it was re-issued. And good thing too. Because this is not a $60 read. The Girl Next Door h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13163845">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22082315">
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  <date_added>Mon May 12 12:11:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[About 3/4 of the way through... <br/>I have read a lot of disturbing books, this is definitely one of the most disturbing, it almost makes you feel guilty by even reading it.  Wonderfully written &amp; grips you the entire way, even though you are distraught through every page. <br/><br/>Ok I'm finis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22082315">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53580169">
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    <body><![CDATA[This may be the saddest, most depressing book I've ever read. It reminds me of films like The Grey Zone or Grave of the Fireflies, that are masterfully crafted and emotionally powerful, but so oppressively grim that I hesitate to recommend it.<br/><br/>It's a story about the imprisonment and tortu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53580169">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8940915">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading books since I was five years old. I'm 35 now. And during my thirty year-long love affair with books, none have been as sadistic and horrifyingly grim as this one.<br/><br/>Imagine a story that reads like &quot;To Kill A Mockingbird&quot;, except with heaping amounts of child abus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8940915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2814632">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this on a camping trip this summer and am still, to this day, not sure how I feel about it.<br/>It is NOTHING of what I expected it to be.  And I just read the other day that someone is picking up the rights to turn it into a movie.  It's a little disturbing.<br/>I feel like if I said it wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2814632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67080088">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is set in 1958 and is about 14-year-old Meg and her younger sister Susan who have to live at their aunt Ruth's and her three sons because their parents died in a car crash.<br/>Ruth begins to get annoyed by the girls, especially by Meg and starts to humiliate and finally torture her by le...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67080088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50271359">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was quite possibly one of the most vile and disturbing stories I've ever read.  It's a testament to how well Ketchum writes that I didn't simply put it down.  I felt a little better after reading the note from the author at the end of the book -- apparently he had taken parts of a true life sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50271359">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27091575">
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    <name><![CDATA[Morbideus]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Given the subject matter, the story is told as tastefully and respectfully as I think it ever could be. Oddly enough, the true case this story was based on, is more disturbing than this book, and that says a LOT. Any closer to reality, it would be un-readable... I've been fascinated several times no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27091575">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8294328">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not much really needs to be said about this book that other's have not already said over and over. It is simply put the most disturbing book I have ever read and it bothered me for a long time. Nobody can write as simple as Jack Ketchum and still hold your attention. For a five start book and one of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8294328">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29797274">
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    <name><![CDATA[Trevor]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had me feeling like I did when I read Stephen King's novella, The Body, when I was a teen. Ketchum places readers in a bucolic 1950s small-town setting, where the doors are always open and unlocked and how adults treat children is considered private business. It's this sense of privacy and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29797274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17537176">
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    <body><![CDATA[My absolute favorite book, ever!  This book is not for the faint of heart.  It has many scenes that are offensive and sometimes even disgusting.  Ketchum writes horror books that portray how evil humans can be.  Anyone who loves horror and has a strong stomach should read this book.  But beware, it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17537176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15139065">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jamie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend was talking about this book over dinner and saying how much he liked the writing style as well as the book in general.  I didn't see it.  In fact, it was nothing more than graphic abuse and torture...written by a male, but about a female.  So it felt more like some perverse fantasy than a r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15139065">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 01 07:15:39 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 01 07:25:30 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was well written, but I could barely bring myself to get through it. I'm a chicken when it comes to watching or reading about people being physically, mentally and verbally abused, and no one stepping in to stop it. What makes it worse is that this book is based on a true story.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3898402">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Apr 05 13:51:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[First, I feel a need to say that the violence in the book, while extreme, is not the reason for the low rating. I've read much, much worse (<em>Hogg</em> by Samuel Delaney), and I can deal with it. What I take issue with here is the amateurish writing, the frustratingly stupid narrator, and the predictable p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46583069">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 04 00:42:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 04 00:43:25 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the time I reached the epilogue, I was shaking and crying uncontrollably - that's how strong this book impacted on me. I don't think I've ever had such a strong reaction to a novel. Probably not best to read if you want to continue wearing your rose-coloured glasses. But, my God, I'm so glad I re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26275590">more...</a>]]></body>
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