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Survivor Paperback – September 17, 2011
- Print length284 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDeadite Pr
- Publication dateSeptember 17, 2011
- Dimensions5.25 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
- ISBN-101936383918
- ISBN-13978-1936383917
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- Publisher : Deadite Pr (September 17, 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 284 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1936383918
- ISBN-13 : 978-1936383917
- Item Weight : 12.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,259,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #39,861 in Horror Literature & Fiction
- #124,128 in Thrillers & Suspense (Books)
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About the authors
J.F. Gonzalez (1964 – 2014) was the author of over thirty novels (under his own name as well as several pseudonyms), mostly in the horror and thriller genres, including the seminal Survivor and the popular Clickers series. Gonzalez sometimes collaborated with authors Mark Williams, Brian Keene, Wrath James White, Mike Oliveri, and others. He was also the author of over two hundred short stories (again under his own name as well as several pseudonyms), several of which were listed as “Recommended Reads” in Ellen Datlow’s annual Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies.
Many more Gonzalez novels are slated for posthumous release. Some (like Retreat and the Survivor prequel Monsters) were completed before his death. Others (like The Crossroads, Final Retreat, and the other Survivor prequel Animals) will be completed by Brian Keene, Wrath James White, and others, using Gonzalez’s partial manuscripts and detailed notes and plot outlines. In addition, all of his out-of-print titles are slated for reissue via Midnight Library.
For more information on his work, please visit www.jfgonzalez.org.
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my life. I've read everything by Stephen King, nearly everything by Dean Koontz,
and then books by brutal horror authors like Bentley Little, James Herbert, Richard
Laymon, Jack Ketchum, and Thomas Tessier, and nothing I've read by them can come
close to this masterpiece of sick twisted violence. The novel is about a couple who
is going on vacation. The husband is framed for a minor crime so that the wife will
be available for kidnapping. Once she is taken, she is told all about the underworld
of pornography. Soon, she will be a star in a snuff film in which she will be raped
and tortured to death by someone called Animal. The rest you can read for yourself.
This book is not for everyone. Within the first ten pages, there is a girl on girl
sex scene that concludes with one girl sucking out the other's eyeball. Later, there
is a baby involved: something that I will never ever forget. It's bloody, it's fast-paced,
and it's terrifying because there is nothing supernatural about this. The closest
book I can relate it to is The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum, but I found this one
far more disturbing. Gonzalez fills it with research about snuff films and how they
are made and sold and how the government has such a hard time tracking them down.
For a while, this book has the feel of a cheap horror film like The Hills Have Eyes
or Hostile, but the characters are believable and the novel goes from pure violent
horror to more suspense and that is what brought my already overwhelming respect
for the book and it's author to even greater heights. Read this book if you are a
horror fan, but it's unlike anything I've ever read before and once again, not for
everyone.
I’m a bit picky with “extreme” horror, as much of it is all gross out and little plot. SURVIVOR not only has plenty of story (and gruesomeness) but main characters we truly feel for.
A pregnant woman is kidnapped by an underground snuff film crew. What she does in her attempts to escape makes her question if she’s as insane as her kidnappers.
Gonzalez fills this novel with the expected violence and action, but also delivers much food for thought and a nice twist toward the finale. 20 years after its initial release it’s still a shocking read, but one that has a lot more going for it than just shock value.
It’s easy to see why many consider this a classic of the subgenre.
This opening sequence is scary, horrific and suspenseful. And what Lisa does to get out of this horrible situation is just as shocking.
We get wrapped up in Lisa's survival, the stunning thing she does to save her own life, and her sweaty life-or-death predicament. But when it's over the novel jogs in place for a long time. Only to kick back into action with more violence that feels utterly empty.
Lisa's turmoil is affecting, but it never goes beyond the obvious weeping, and that's a big problem with the book -- we never get a glimpse into any of the characters. We never learn why people want to watch snuff films, and we never get to know why people get off on hurting others. Animal rambles on for ten pages, but it felt like a lame explanation. If you're going to tackle this subject, you have to come up with something better than the old "power trip" line of thought.
The book gets a little wacky in the end, as a cartoonish character enters the scene and does something fairly impossible, and overall where this novel ends up is rather unsatisfying and even a little boring.
I really wish Gonzalez had stayed away from the obvious course this book takes. Because its first third is so good -- a matter-of-factly terrifying situation you dread but can't stop reading that ends with a moral twist that makes you question what you would do in the same circumstances -- and then just sort of fades into the oblivion of cliches and bad revenge movies.
Gonzalez had a lot he could have explored in this novel, but in the end "Survivor" doesn't live up to the promise of its opening.
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This is for you!
Very graphic, intense and gory.
Not for everyone...
I did love it :)