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Originally Posted by noctuary
How does Open Season compare to The Girl Next Door, Urge? That's the only one of Ketchum's books that I've read, and to this day it remains the single most distressing thing I've ever read. If Open Season is more depressing than that, it should come with a prepackaged straight razor.
Sorry you didn't like Keene's books, by the way. I know that his style is... er... straightforward (or simple, as you put it) but something about the struggle of the characters to survive in a dead world (pun intended) really connected with me.
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the story was ok .. i just found the prose weak.
i havent read The Girl Next Door .. but Open Season was probably the most brutal book i've read ... it was also extremely well written
avoided most character and situation cliches that most other horror writers seem to be more than happy to use over and over again.