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[quote=Anonymous]Let's Go Play At The Adams' is the darkest, bleakest, most horrifying novel I have ever read.  It will wreck you and leave you walking around feeling like you've been kicked hard in the gut, for weeks.  It's not only scary in a suspense-building, sometimes disgusting way, it offers the darkest presentation of childhood and human nature I have ever encountered.

It's about college girl who takes a babysitting job at a home where the parents are supposed to be gone for two weeks.  There is at least two very young children, and then some older teens, including the neighbor kids they invite over.  As a game, the kids chloroform the babysitter (I think when she was sleeping), and tie her spread-eagle to her bed.  When she wakes up, they don't really know what to do, but they gradually start bullying her and testing out their power, and things escalate over the coming days into outright torture.  The kind of torture the littlest kids think up, ranging to the kind of torture the teen boy thinks up, and the kids rotate as keeping watch on the girl, which means the individual bits of torture happen with no one watching but the kid or kids inflicting each bit.  It ends in the worst possible way.

I've read The Road, which others have done a good job of describing here, and I also find it powerfully dark and disturbing, but...it presents a small note of optimism in the way that there are still (a few) people who remain good when all rules and constraints of society, and society itself, fall away.  Let's Go Play At The Adams' suggests that evil is not so far below the surface in everyone, even in happy, pampered children who live in a nice home with wealthy, kind parents.  [/quote]

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