May 172013
The Woman
The Woman is the last of her kind, the lone survivor of a tribe of feral cannibals who have terrorized the Maine coast for years. She is wounded and weak, but she’s found refuge in a cave overlooking the sea. Christopher Cleek is an amoral—and unstable—lawyer who sees her bathing in a stream one day while he’s out hunting. Cleek has dark, cruel secrets and he will now add one more. He will capture the Woman, lock her in his cellar, and attempt to tame her, with the help of his wife and child
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Great Read! Could Not Put It Down!,
I have never written a review before, but felt compelled to write one after reading this book. This is the first book I’ve ever read by this author, but it will not be my last. I didn’t want to put this one down and had it read in one day. It kept my attention from beginning to end. It is a dark book and not for the squeamish, but if you like dark, psychological-type books you should love this one. I know I did!
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|Horror greatness!,
I would have finished this book in one sitting if I didn’t have to sleep and go to work. I have read a lot of Ketchum’s work and this is my new favorite. This book has everything a horror reader wants; from psychological thrills to downright gore.
I’ll be interested to see the movie if I can get my hands on it.
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|You have seen the film, perhaps? Now, read the book.,
Are you a Jack Ketchum fan? Have you seen the film Offspring or The Woman? If so, you might like the novel The Woman. A Ketchum fan can catch ‘im there. Whether you read the prose or see the film, the plot, images, and reading/viewing experience are very nearly the same. However, the book varies in six important ways from McKee’s film. I liked both the film and the book.
The book is a different literary adventure in six ways. One, Genevieve Raton has more of a backstory.
Two, the Cow character has an entire novella (forty-two pages) re-introducing him after Offspring. The Cow does not appear in Lucky McKee’s The Woman.
Three, the film is more gruesome in two scenes (e.g. Brian torturing The Woman with handtools), and the book is superlatively more gruesome in one (Jack Ketchum, I salute you. You shocked, creeped, and freaked me out, man).
Four, Ketchum’s text translates The Woman’s language and elucidates her inner thoughts. You can decide which is more unsettling: not knowing what she says and think, or knowing full-well while the characters around her stupidly don’t understand the human beast with whom they have trifled.
Five, the book adds details to the film’s opening scene. For the film, a person needs to interpret the opening scene, and that analysis is one kind of pleasure. In the book, the same scene is fully presented and explained, and such clarity is likewise a pleasure.
Also, MAJOR SPOILER, Ketchum’s book tells readers who the father of Peg’s child is. Uber-bastard Cleek has repeatedly raped his own daughter. With this revelation, the book offers further feminist discussion about abusive patriarchs
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