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  <default_description>The bodies were all the same--stripped, drained of blood, and heartless. Thepress screamediller every bit as gripping as Slade's first novel, Headhunter. HC: Morrow.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michael Slade]]></name>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Rue Morgue Magazine]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 03 08:58:24 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 04 20:58:51 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i have to admit to being rather conflicted on the rating of this book, which i desperately wish i could have given a 3.5 if able, but in the end, there was just too much that i found appealing to give it a flat 3.  <br/><br/>my biggest complaints seem rather few when i think about them list-wise, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5577614">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been ages and ages since I've read this, but I remember this being as good of a &quot;serial killer book&quot;  as I've ever read.  And I have read Silence of the Lambs.  <br/><br/>If you can find this, hunt it down. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 19 09:13:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 19 09:18:48 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whoa this book is off the hook...a powerful bloody book with intersecting stories of a demented and violent serial killer, two sets of cops searching for him and glimpses into the lives of other characters..This book has everything sick and twisted you could want in a book: gory, violent detailed mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33258385">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Would rate this 3.5 stars. It has so many twists and turns. The ending almost got me. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Worst book I've ever read. ]]></body>
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    <review id="8935769">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 10 14:34:25 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 10 15:24:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is a guilty pleasure if there ever was one. It's trashy, horrific, twisted, and sadistic. But it's a gripping page-turner, and as far as mass market horror novels go, it's actually pretty good. If the members of Motley Crue sat down to write a sequel to <u>The Silence of the Lambs</u>, the resul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8935769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33146247">
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  <date_added>Wed Sep 17 21:26:07 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like these books, there are a ton in this series, written as a collaboration of lawyers who are experts in forenzics and psychoanalysis of criminals. it's a mystery-thriller with only a touch of ick, but the whole book comes together at break neck speed at the end, and will NOT dissapoint y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33146247">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 07 12:40:23 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 07 12:40:40 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're familiar with Slade's work, you know what to expect. I didn't find it near as shocking as Headhunter, so I was kind of disappointed. <br/>A lot of people liked this one, though.]]></body>
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    <review id="16026962">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the only reason I pause before immediately seeking out a recommendation from Tripper]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 06 18:27:09 -0800 2009</date_added>
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