Jessiealan
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Post by Jessiealan on Apr 21, 2020 22:37:59 GMT -5
Stephen Dobyns gets so much acclaim for The Church of Dead Girls, I think people often miss other books he has written, and especially The Burn Palace. It is also a very good book and worth a read. From award-winning author Stephen Dobyns comes a sardonic yet chilling literary novel of suspense about a small New England town beset by all manner of inexplicable - and perhaps supernatural - criminal acts. Go here for a Preview read.amazon.com/nc/?kcrFree=only&asin=B008EKOMDOIf you read it, give us an idea of your opinion, here in this thread.
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Post by Jessiealan on Apr 21, 2020 22:46:17 GMT -5
Stephen Dobyns, The Church of Dead Girls One after another three girls disappear from a small American town. As the sleepy little town awakens to a horrific nightmare, no one is safe from the epidemic of suspicion. Genre: Horror Prologue read.amazon.com/nc/?kcrFree=only&asin=B00USMCOSG
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Post by annaj26 on Apr 22, 2020 14:36:18 GMT -5
I don't think so.
I think I'll pass.
Sounds like a horror book to me and I'd rather stay up as pull myself down.
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Post by Sysop3 on May 3, 2020 15:50:18 GMT -5
You're probably doing the right thing, Annie. The Church of Dead Girls, read by me about 5 years ago, is a great who-dunnit, but it IS a horror book. If you have doubts about how well you tolerate "horror", pass it up.
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Post by beth on May 4, 2020 8:43:05 GMT -5
The Church of Dead Girls has never been advertised, reviewed or considered anything except a horror book. Of course it is. That does not mean blood and gore are being flung around on every page. It's also a psychological thriller and most of the content has to do with what is going on in this little NY state town … the college and the personal interactions. From that, the reader is supposed to have enough information to recognize the guilty from the innocent. Of course, it isn't quite enough or the book wouldn't be the great who-dunnit that it is.
And if Dobyns hides his hand a bit when it comes to horror .. believe me, he makes up for it in the end.
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