Eating Naked - Stephen Dobyns

Sixteen tots of black humour: not for the easily depressed (1277 words)
by chris105 - written on 20/02/01, updated on 21/02/01 (Very useful, 2073 readings)
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from Prague airport - where the threat of a long flight with nothing but the inflight magazine for reading pleasure was looming large - introduced me to the pleasures of Stephen Dobyns' writing. No, the book wasn't the one I'm reviewing now, rather it was his relatively well-known Boy in the Water. At the time I wanted something not too complicated, but possibly intriguing. I'm happy to report that I found just that in Boy in the Water - a highly-suggestive thriller verging on the chiller - the Time Out verdict, "Stephen King with a PhD", couldn't have been apter. Not an "I must grab all his previous titles and read them ...

Boy In the Water - Stephen Dobyns

Fantastic!  (267 words)
by LukeCroll - written on 26/01/01, updated on 26/01/01 (Useful, 25 readings)
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Jim Hawthorne is the new head of Bishop`s Hill Academy. The school is in trouble and he has pledged to save it, not knowing that there is something evil going on. A boy is found dead, but as time goes on, it is too late to stop the terrible madness. When I read `The Church Of Dead Girls` by this author, it swiftly became one of my favourite ever novels. I did not think it was possible for him to beat it and on reading this novel, I have to say that whilst he came very close, he just could not quite manage it. His characters are excellent. He paints a superb picture of the tortured Hawthorne and he creates a real air of mystery around his characters, with LeBrun being a ...