Off Season
For the first time I think ever, I read nearly an entire book in one sitting. It was Off Season by Jack Ketchem. It was not because it was such a page turner but I was stuck on an airplane.
The story is about a bunch of inbred wild people in Maine killing and eating people. That's pretty much it. It tells their story and the story of the people they stalked to eat. Only one survived and that was by luck and a very disgusting oral sex scene. I think that I liked the sequel better. Offspring seemed to have more plot and direction. This was an early splatter punk story, and lives up to its splat factor.
Jack is a good writer, and distrubing in his ficition. I read this book and it's sequel (also mentioned in an early blog entry) to help me write inbred folks better. The characters for the most part seemed to be more slack-jawed than anything else. They were also very sexual but kept it in the family.
