by John Saul
bookshelves: published-1977, spring-2015, boo-scary, tbr-busting-2015, new-england, north-americas Read from April 15 to 18, 2015 Description: One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty h...
According to Wikipedia, this first novel was the result of Dell Publishing asking Saul if he was interested in writing a psychological thriller. Perhaps that framework accounts for the book's disturbing themes and its more gruesome scenes. Not that Saul does much more than scratch the surface, but w...
After hearing so much about this particular novel, I chanced upon it at the local used bookstore. I finished it in two days. This is the first Saul novel I've read, and I have to say that I enjoyed it. The writing was fast-paced, the characters were tolerable, even though Elizabeth annoyed me in wha...
If there was any question as to why Saul is my favorite author of all time then this..his very first book answered and doubts i might have had on that statement alone!! Read in just under two days (when a novel usually takes me one week in duration) should say how hard it was to put this down on any...
Though I don't enjoy john SAul's work as much as other horror wrriter's, I have to say "Suffer the children" has been a mouthful of fresh air. The subject is amazing, and the beginning of the book sent chills down my spine! I would have never expected the story to twist the way it did, but I was so ...
Like everyone else I read a lot of horror in my teen years, and I read a number of books by Saul. And now I can't remember a thing about any of them.
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