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Red
Red
Author: Jack Ketchum
The old man hears them before he sees them, the three boys coming over the hill, disturbing the peace by the river where he's fishing. He smells gun oil too, too much oil on a brand-new shotgun. These aren't hunters, they're rich kids who don't care about the river and the fish and the old man. Or his dog. Red is the name of the old man's dog, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780843950403
ISBN-10: 0843950404
Publication Date: 8/2002
Pages: 93
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 91 ratings
Publisher: Leisure Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 0
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Acknud avatar reviewed Red on + 82 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
Don't mess with a country boy's dog. That is the lesson to be learned here. This was a good short read that is hard to put down. I finished it in one evening. It is listed as horror in some groups. I don't see it. I think it was a good thriller but there was no horror about it.
k9kutter64 avatar reviewed Red on + 167 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This is a good story...I read this book in one day. I like the way Jack Ketchum writes and I can identify with his characters....really good read.
TangoBrat avatar reviewed Red on + 83 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
After reading Off Season, I was pleasantly surprised to read a good story about a man who loses his dog to an act of plain meanness.

It all started with a simple act of brutality. Three boys shot and killed an old man's dog. No reason, just plain meanness. But the dog was the best thing in the old man's world, and he wasn't about to let it pass. He wanted justice, and he'd make sure the kids paid for what they did, even if it cost him his life. They picked the wrong old man to mess with. And as the fury and violence escalate, they're about to learn that...the hard way.
reviewed Red on + 119 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Ketchum's books are very good and don't deal with supernatural, just humans being cruel to each other. The novella at the end "The Passenger" was very good.
reviewed Red on + 33 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great, suspenseful writing, especially the novella at the back of the book!
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DimensionX avatar reviewed Red on + 65 more book reviews
This was a good book. Good, but not great. First of all, it's not horror. It's suspense. The story was realistic and believable, however. The second story, The Passenger, was more like what I would expect from J. Ketchum. Violent and gory, with a lot of weird characters...too weird, in fact. The female antagonist was so weird that she wasn't even believable. This was not my favorite book of J. Ketchum's.
rcketman avatar reviewed Red on + 38 more book reviews
Two part book, in the first section, "Red" Ketchum shows you the inhumanity of men! A well told story with no gore, unlike Ketchum. In "The Passenger". Ketchum shoes you he hasn't changed his style, lots of gore and violence! A typical Ketchum tale!
Who's the scariest writer around, Laymon, Lee, King, Koontz, not a contest! Ketchum wins by a wide margin.
bookluver-in-sc avatar reviewed Red on + 229 more book reviews
A good Ketchum story. But like most of his work, kind of sick.
Honeysweets61 avatar reviewed Red on + 23 more book reviews
This is an interesting read and I wasn't able to put down. Its godd from beginning to end. Loved it!


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