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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote FinalExam Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July/01/2008 at 11:42pm
I ended up ordering Girl Next Door from a local bookstore. They didn't have it in stock but they ordered it for me. Do you have a bank account, because most bank cards can also act as credit cards for online ordering. You can of course order new books online. I personally go the cheaper used route most of the time, but I don't really mind a book that's a bit worn as long as I can read it. Most places where you order books, the sellers give you a description of the book, what kind of condition it is in. Now and then you may get a book that's in worse condition than described, but for the most part I've found people to be honest about that.
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I've got The Girl Next Door, Off Season, and Off Spring. Alot of people in the koontz forum have mentioned Girl Next Door as being good, very disturbing. Maybe I should put it on this summers TBR list. Are you going to read it soon FE?
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Oh I've read The Girl Next Door and really loved it. Not loved it in a, "Wow, wasn't that fun" sort of way. It is very disturbing, but Ketchum really did a great job of creating characters I was invested in, both the ones I cared about and the ones I loathed. And he definitely had me invested in the plight of the "girl next door," and I felt all her pain. Which made it an odd experience, that even while I was in awe of Ketchum's skill, I was just devestated by what was happening in the book, if that makes sense.

It's the only Ketchum I have so far, though I have both Off Season and Off Spring that I got from used bookstores. I hear the sequel, Off Spring, is far inferior to the first.
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I'm half way thru Girl next Door, and I still cling to my claim that abusing Children for entertainment is where it's at! I'm glad it's fiction, but this same stuff goes on in real life, and I wish it's stop. I like the short chapters, because its not a book that you curl up and read in one sitting. VERY disturbing, and I'm only at the half-way point :(
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