Upended one of the most basic of social conventions: that kids and adultsĪre basically two different species and that the adults are the superior But is there more to the novel than that?ĭubbing themselves the Freedom Five in a bit of stick-it-to-the-man early '70s counterculture vernacular, f ive siblings, from teenager to child- Dianne, John, Paul, Bobby, and Cindy-have There's also a promise of rare and illicit thrills, of titillation, of the forbidden-precisely the kind of recipe fans of horror paperbacks crave. You can tell, by that reprint cover art alone (Bantam/Sept 1980), with its exploitation and fetishization of sexual abuse, that moral discomfort will be in full effect ("A novel of lingerie horror"? Oh, wait, oops). Please don't hate me, a solitary dollar (Update: the novel has beenīrought back into print thanks to Valancourt Books!). I found my copy at a library sale in 2011 for, um, and Scarcity of its various paperback editions, which finds vintage copies Has acquired over the decades a grubby allure due to that aspect, as well as the Published in hardcover in 1974, Let's Go Play at the Adams' is very loosely based on the mind-numbing torture/murder of Sylvia Likens. Johnson is the kind of book that makes you reevaluate what you read for entertainment and why. This compelling but squicky little cult novel by one-time author Mendal W. Innocence is the most frightening sight of all.
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