The film is good, but the book is much better, as is often the case.

After a devastating divorce Linda Darby has moved to a sea shore community to live. Never could I have ever guessed at the ending either. While I liked the movie, I LOVE the book! This book was fucking crazy. Refresh and try again.

Bei Büchern von Jack Ketchum ist stets eine Warnung angebracht.

I can't say how awesome this book is. It felt dry and tasted metallic. She is reclusive, supports herself as a day trader and, when the urge strikes, goes to nearby towns to find men for one-night stands - no names, no ties, no second encounters. Suffice to say, it's about a girl who is kidnapped and held in a cellar, and the way people around them slowly find themselves open to horrific acts of cruelty and brutality. The extra chapter at the end of the book has some of the best scenes in the story which the film does not touch. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Something went wrong.

I believe this book to be the best of the trilogy so far. Yoh, insanely graphic, but more durable than "Off Season". And the family harbors a dark secret that will shatter the already fractured veneer of normality, rushing headlong to a brutal, if satisfying, conclusion. Or maybe that book hardened me.

Great read. Yes, it’s just fiction but if the author wants to have any credibility with the other parts of the novel, then he’d darn well better be credible about the “little things” and not just create distances and time frames that fit into his writing.

One of. She is wounded and weak, but she's found refuge in a cave overlooking the sea. He stated beliefs with which I agree.

I'm a bit mystified as to why she's suddenly speaking Irish (my language) which doesn't fit the original origin story (although it could make sense if she was with a Newfoundland connection) and I'd like that to have been explained, but otherwise I thought this was great within its niche. October 13th 2011 Then, he enlists his family to help watch and care for the savage female (Cleek learns the hard way early on), but his mousy wife detests her husband's newfound fascination, the eldest teen daughter and son each become fascinated in the Woman for very different reasons. Dallas William Mayr , better known by his pen name Jack Ketchum, was an American horror fiction author. Makes you wonder what you would do. 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. Just wonderful writing by accomplished Author David Bishop, and I am now a fan for sure.

The author seems to be creating things as he goes along, just to add pages to the book. In 2011, Ketchum received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award for outstanding contribution to the horror genre. Like a still warm carcass, The Woman is freshly spilled blood on a tried and tested horror sub genre - cannibalism; tender and warm to begin with, rotting and germ infested by the end - though one could argue it either way around in this case. How he can flip things. A book to remember. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

There are no discussion topics on this book yet. I liked this book and recommend it to other readers who like action/thriller/whodunit books. I’m someone who *never* doesn’t finish books, but I made an exception for this one.

"The Woman" was actually my first book by Ketchum but it certainly won't be my last. He tries to control how the government works by hiring paid assassins to carry out his dirty deeds whether it be extortion, blackmailing, kidnapping, and then murder of govt officials and politicians if necessary. The author’s attempts to write from a female perspective were stereotyped and stilted, with exclamations such as “bull feathers” (seriously?!). The author's writing mechanics were very good.

Cleek has dark, cruel secrets and he will now add, 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. Finally done with the "Dead River" trilogy by Jack Ketchum (The master of shock).

Penmanship in The Woman was so great and swept this reader up fast, and I was carried along on a wave of wondrously written words from Author David Bishop, that created. Ketchum, who died last week, was an author who was fascinated by violence - its effects on the human body, yes, but also the things that can lead people to commit such horrible acts.

Adam is a pretentious ass and treats Emily like dirt. One of the world's most twisted writers (Jack Ketchum) teams up with one of Hollywood's most twisted directors (Lucky McKee) to bring us this twisted little nausea-inducing horror romp.

Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. I feel like a sick puppy for saying this, but THE WOMAN is actually a masterful bit of story-telling.

Suitable candidate for poolside reading. But then she is dragged off to an alley by two men and a third man rescues her and disappears. David Bishop is an excellent writer. Start by marking “The Woman (Linda Darby, #1)” as Want to Read: Error rating book. I really enjoyed this book. The Woman is the third act of a harrowing tale begun in Jack Ketchum's legendary Offseason, a tale of feral cannibals living in the woods, hunting and breeding and terrorizing the Maine coast.

In most of his books, Ketchum walks a fine line between artistry and outright decadence, and THE WOMAN is certainly no exception.