Ragged Man by Jack Priest Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Ragged Man
Book Review: Good, Scary, Adventure, Horror Thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
"Ragged Man" is a horror story that starts in Australia, where an older American couple are participating in one of those off road car rallys. Their car breaks done. An old Aboriginal couple come by, then die. Their spirits inhabit the Americans and when the Americans go home a bad spirit, intent on their destruction follows. This is a very good scary, adventure, horror, thriller that I really loved, even if my best friend's husband did write it. Please give it a try, I think you might like it.Book Review: Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the third Jack Priest novel I have read (the first he had written), and I have to say really well done! The man truly knows his stuff when it comes to building suspense not only through the tried-and-true method of plenty of gore, but also through flavor, development of interesting characters, and some absolutely fascinating subject matter in regards to legends and curses of the Pacific Rim-- something I have seen just about zilch on in popular fiction.
I noticed a while back Jack was making quite a name for himself and I was not disappointed. He's a great writer and a great person.
Book Review: Horrendous
Summary: 1 Stars
I picked up this book based on good reviews. I was looking for edgy, original, hard-to-put-down horror. What I got was amateurish bore-fest. This book fails on all counts: silly story, cookie-cutter characters you cant care less about, implausible situations... Example: a guy's wife gets brutally murdered, guy goes traveling, guy comes back home to realize someone's been living in his house, and to find a creepy note about his wife pinned there. Whats does the guy do? Goes into the kitchen and stars washing dishes. Are you kidding me? There's a 7 year old kid in this book that talks and acts like he's thirty seven. The book was absolutely not scary for me. It wasn't even suspenseful enough to keep reading. I gave up after 150 pages, partly due to being bored, partly because the writing was so poor... I'm talking high school essay poor. It's like someone gave a horny, angry teenager a typewriter and said, "here, write a horror story". Seriously, it's THAT bad.Book Review: I agree with the other 1 star review....
Summary: 1 Stars
I also got the book based on the positive reviews and the desire to read a good supernatural thriller for a change of pace. However, I could not get past the poor writing, lewd sexual content (in my opinion), and superficial characters. I tried to stick with it, but gave up after six chapters. Not what I was looking for!Book Review: I couldn't put it down
Summary: 5 Stars
What a story! I've never read anything like this. It is my first "horror" novel and while I'm not sure it has convinced me to take up this genre, I must say it has made me a fan of the author. Jack Priest certainly knows how to weave a tale. It's clever, hip and, well, gory as can be--everything I've ever imagined a horror story to be and a bit more.
Set among a clan of bootleggers in the music industry, the tale initially unfolds through an adventure in Australia where the main characters, Rick and Ann Gordon, learn about Aboriginal lore of the Marangit (good) vs. the Galka (evil). Evil takes the form of the Ragged Man, a heartless killer intent on beheading everyone on a long list of bootleggers associated with Rick Gordon. The Ragged Man, also known as Sam Storm, has a saber-toothed familiar, a killing creature also known as the Ghost Dog. Between the two of them ravaging the bootlegger's world, the blood never stops spilling. Besides off-road racing in the Australian desert, there are further adventures on an airplane, bikes, a fishing boat, several cars and even a bathtub.
Late in the story there's a moment of remorse that emerges from Storm, when he realizes he has done "terrible things, foul unspeakable deeds, things against the laws of God and Man, things that violated his very nature." He goes on to admit that wrong as they were, he enjoyed doing them. I laughed, thinking such sentiment was similar to how I felt about reading this book. I enjoy a good mystery from time to time, can even stomach a romance, but I never thought I'd enjoy reading a story about a crazed killer. Obviously this is the result of a talented storyteller and I look forward to reading more of his work.
From the author of "I'm Living Your Dream Life," and "The Things I Wish I'd Said," McKenna Publishing Group