Let's Go Play at the Adams

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But these children are effluent and clever, and they soon become bored with the games they play with each other that can only go so far.

Most ten-year-olds want to be the centre of attention from their babysitter and want them to be played with as well as involved. I just found the writing style a little disjoined at times, I think it would have benefitted from better editing.However, I don't think I ever expected it would still have such a strong impact on my thoughts and feelings about 25 years later. Not in a way that made me feel sick, though, or will stick in my mind particularly more than other gruesome fiction. I don't think most children would decide to do the things these children did, but I can't deny that there are some that would (and as an optimist who firmly believes that there is more good in the world then bad, that is a hard thing to admit).

Most kids take this as part of interaction with adults, but some could clearly take it as enough of an offense to take action in the right circumstances, if not to declare a sort of war with that adult. but I have read much worse as I'm an addictive true crime/horror reader and this just seamed a little "calm" for me, I was told by a friend to read this before reading "THE GIRL NEXT DOOR" as she said if you can't handle reading"LET'S GO PLAY AT THE ADAMS" then you most definitely won't be able to handle reading this book! more importantly, I know how the world can be a cruel and relentless place; I've seen the horrible things it can inflict on people.At first it seems like a game to the kids, but as the captivity continues, they find themselves getting bored of just having a prisoner and think up fun new games to play with their “toy” while Barbara tries desperately to appeal to their humanity and escape. The last book that really got me thinking like this was ‘Odd Man Out’ by James Newman and that book still also sits in my brain and I frequently think about it. The first few times I’d seen this version online, I’d initially thought it was actually a plate of cookies, not a dolls’ head. The nightmare relentlessly unfolds, gradual, yet step by step with tremendous, undeniable, excruciating inevitability. A sexually frustrated teenager is definitely easy to imagine and while only a teeny tiny amount go on to commit sex crimes, it’s totally plausible.