Helpful Score: 6
I knew what this book was about when I started reading it but about half way through I had to quit. There were images of something that happened, and I don't want to give anything away, that were just to vivid and disturbing for me to go on. I think what bothered me most about this book wasn't what they were writing about but that there were really people in the world that really do these sorts of things.
Helpful Score: 3
Wow!! This one will keep you on the edge of your seat, but you will need a strong stomach. I don't know where this author got his info but I find it hard to believe that there are people in this world that participate in the activities described in this book
Helpful Score: 2
WOW!! To quote Brian Keene, author of City of the Dead, "Quite possibly the most disturbing book I've ever read in my life." This is only too true! On the cover the quote from The New York Times, "It pushes your eyes off the page and then pulls them back." I can not describe the book in quite the right words. Explicit, morbid, DISGUSTING, disturbing, depraved, shocking. There just aren't the right words! Usually I enjoy the "movie in my mind" that goes with the reading of a book. This "movie" had to be turned off many times(as hard as some images were to get out of my mind, some still haunt me),made me want to puke, and on several occasions made me question myself as to why I was reading the book at all! If anyone had picked this book up and read a random page they would have questioned my morals and sanity. They would have thought me perverse and sick for wallowing in this squalor. I think I finished it because I have to finish a book no matter how dumb or in this case, disturbing it may be. Overall it was a very well written book and kept you wondering how they would escape or how they would end up. Good who done it, suspenseful. I expected violence and gore, it is a horror about kidnapping and snuff films, but the blatant pornography and torture sex was unexpected. Very vulgar. I cannot say I am a better person having read it and I cannot say that someone else shouldn't read it. You just need to be aware of the content.
Helpful Score: 2
This book was a little disturbing if you take it as something happening right now, every day, Oh My God! in the world. It could be... who knows. But it is not THE most disturbing book I have ever read. I think fans of Richard Laymon would LOVE this book! Richard Laymon writes about the dark, evil side of human beings. That is what this is. No supernatural horror... just sick people doing sick things to other people. There is only a couple "over the edge" moments. My wife cried at the end... It was touching. The ending softened the books content perfectly and made it all easier to take. I loved this book. I highly recommend it to Laymon fans especially.
Helpful Score: 2
This is perhaps the sickest book I have ever read. I just finished reading it and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be sleeping much tonight. I am not easily offended, but this book make me physically sick. Very graphic, very gory and completely disgusting. I absolutely DO NOT recommend this book to anyone who is easily offended. You won't make it through the first five pages. This is one of those books that once you've read it, you wish you hadn't, because you won't be able to get the images out of your head any time soon. Just sick.
