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Kidnapped
Author: J Lewis
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(Added on Sep 24, 2008)
(This month 75157 readers) (Total 123615 readers) |
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Young woman driving home alone from vacation involved in accident, abducted by men, abused. |
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Weighed
Average (?):  (7/10) |
Average
Rating:  (7.5/10) |
Highest
Rating:  (9/10) |
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| Reviewer:
d1ll1gaf
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Jan 4, 2011 |
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This is my favourite J Lewis story. My only wish is that the author comes back to it, the victim gets raped (repeatedly) and maybe the guys step it up a notch a take their fists to the girls bodies.
9 out of 10 with the potential to be a 10 (9/10)
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| Reviewer:
JimmyJump
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Oct 7, 2010 |
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Between most reviews and now, the paragraph-fairy must have stricken, because there's nothing wrong with the spacing. Funny thing also that when a story is 'difficult to read' it also all of a sudden becomes difficult to understand. I fear the latter has more to do with a certain mental disfunction in that some folks' brains seem to go in overload mode when confronted with a text which isn't according to a certain pre-formatted pattern.
And the most uncreative review screaming for creativity from a writer who's stories are all above par thanks to a certain creativity.
Cacti and snakes? Sure. The tow-trucking rednecks in "Kindnapped" are exactly the kind that should handle snakes and cacti. They'd probably wind-up dead porcupines within two easy to read and evenly spaced paragraphs.
Yes, the plot is old and overused. But that doesn't mean there's no more kidnappings happening. Kidnappers don't retire because their modus operandi is being overused.
Beaten paths only look trite when the scenery is dull. Or when you know the destiny. Which means you're the one walking the same path over and over again, not the writer.
But I know the feeling. When your buttons transform into tiny dots, shrinking while yelping "aw, not again...".
Take four city guys, a river soon to disappear because of a dam being built, and a canoe. Put the guys in the canoe, and the canoe on the river. Add an eerie encounter with an inbred banjo prodigy and the inbred's family going in pursuit of the city guys, for no other reason than seemingly wanting to make the fat guy of the quartet get buck nekkid and make him squeal like a pig. Which he does. Nicely too. Most awkward scene I've ever seen in a movie. Reynolds, Voight, Cox and squealie Beatty. Deliverance. The ultimate roadtrip. Make that rivertrip.
Did it stop other screenwriters and/or directors from making slightly similar movies? Nope. A lot were made. Bad ones too. But also good ones, trodding a beaten path but still sticking out.
Not saying J Lewis wrote the equivalent of "Deliverance" here. But still, there's enough solid character details to make the story stand out.
One could say that there's no motivation for the guys to behave the way they do. But that's just it. It's always *us* looking for a motive to feel comfortable with what we read, be it fiction or real events. To be able to tag things and people and safely tuck them away in a fittingly labeled square. To not having to admit that we all have a redneck part. Little Nazi camp commanders lying dormant under a thin veneer of self-proclaimed civilized civility... bullshit baby. Remembers me of a scene in "Runaway Train" where Eric Roberts exclaims to fellow convict Jon Voight "what are you? Some kind of animal??" and Voight responding with a sneer "worse... I'm human..."
But I'm digressing and surely digging too deep again. Just my thoughts wandering.
"Kidnapped" may not be novel nor overly erotic. But it's very well written and has well defined characters in a plotless fait-divers. And though I've been in the past guilty of accusing this or that writer from having written something without a plot; until someone can show me the meaning of life (no, not you Mr. Cleese) I'll gladly do with the writings of J Lewis and akin authors.
JJ (9/10)
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| Reviewer:
mkemse
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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the layout of the story is terrible very difficult to read, bad spacing (6/10)
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| Reviewer:
jkim
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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a bit repetitive but hot in parts. if humiliation escalates, for example, piercing or tattooing, then gyrl will certainly raise the rating. (7/10)
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| Reviewer:
irishman112145
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Oct 18, 2008 |
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I have found this very enjoyable and am looking forward to reading more. (8/10)
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| Reviewer:
Chuckdom19
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Oct 13, 2008 |
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Yes, an editor could help you format the story in such a manner as to make it more readable. Yes, there are some grammatical errors. But most of all, the plot is old and overused. Why not try a bit more creativity? Instead of clothes pins (common, old fashioned) why not use a cactus, for example? Or snakes? more creativity would make the story much more interesting, and attract more readers and higher scores. (4/10)
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| Reviewer:
JonMaddux
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Oct 7, 2008 |
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Not that i am the greatest writer in the world to begin with but i would try making the paragraphs a little more pronounced so we can tell where the story breaks. (7/10)
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sheilagirl
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Oct 6, 2008 |
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I found this story very arousing to read. I can't wait to read the continuation. The errors were not that significant to me and I had no problem reading and enjoying this immensely (7/10)
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| Reviewer:
Flinkar
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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The formatting was terrible but the story was good. (7/10)
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