Edge of Dark Water Audiobook (Unabridged)

" Possibly Joe's best book! (Impossible to pick a favorite!) Excellent writing, great story with surprises that are amazing. Interesting, compelling characters ... What a book! ... I heard this has already been optioned, and if they don't screw it up, it will be a great film! "

" This book has it all. It is set in depression era east Texas, on the Sabine river. The main character and her assorted friends set off on a mission that has as many twists and turns as that dadburn river. A good read! "

" The mood and culture of this book reminded me a lot of Winter's Bone. Taking place in south Texas somewhere during the 1940's/50's, Seventeen year old Sue Ellen with her friend Terry, her father and Uncle drag up the body of a friend in the Sabine river. The wretched town seems unconcerned about May Lynn's death and who might have caused it. But after her burial, Sue Ellen and her two friends Terry and Jinx snoop around May Lynn's room, find a map that leads to money and they, along with Sue Ellen's doped up mom, decide to take the money and May Lynn's ashes to Hollywood where her dreams always were. But the wrong kind of people get wind of the money and where they're headed, and then there's nothing but one bad thing after another that happens to them. This was a gruesome adventure story-with murder, mystery, honest dialect and loyalty between friends (I loved the character of Jinx). I had a hard time getting into this book and the style rubbed me the wrong way a bit, but once I got into it I just couldn't, in a sense, look away. "

" 3.5, not 4 because it's a bid short--Huck Finn meets Deliverance. "

" A real nail biter, fun and scary. "

" Excellent, quick read....loved it. "

" Between this and Huck Finn, I'm starting to think every book should be about a river journey. "

" Huck Finn meets Deliverance is definitely an accurate description. Good story, excellent writing, developed characters. Disturbing but good. "

" This was unlike anything I've read in a long time. Set in 1930s east Texas poverty and ignorance, it is funny in the most surprising places and somewhat haunting. The characters are very strongly drawn and I was drawn to them, even though their experience is so alien to mine. "

" Not my favorite of his, but I liked it. "

" Poor... "

" If Winter's Bone had been set in an East Texas swamp, this story would be it. Shades of Mark Twain and also Deliverance. Good stuff. "

" This is the best book I have read so far this year. I feel it is one of Lansdale's best books, if not his best, and he has written some great books. "

" Reminded me of the Bottoms. Landsdale is revisiting the murder of a young girl. The 3 friends seemed younger than 16. otherwise the characters were compelling and the book beautifully written. Once I started I couldn't stop reading until I got to the end "

" I read it almost straight through. I love Lansdale. You have to like his colloquial style to enjoy it. There is a reason for the Mark Twain comparisons. "

" Good book. Very Twain like. A nice little southern story about how a river changes and defines the lives of several people living on it's banks. "

" Very well written. It was a little gory, but good. "

" Entertaining, but the author is trying too hard to be Harry Crews. "

" Part Mark Twain, part Harper Lee, part Stand By Me. Really, just, classic Lansdale. So, so good. It's a Southern coming-of-age story on a Texas river. A definite must-read. "