Twilight Audiobook

" Bizarre and edgy. Lots of suspense and twists. "

" I'm an avid fan of William Gay. As a native Tennessean, he speaks to me in a language I've heard all myl life. As I read this book I kept saying to myself,"I don't like this ... It's too dark, too morose, too evil but then I could never put it down. I was literally awake into the early morning three nights in a row. Thank goodness I finished it! Maybe now I can get some sleep... "

" This book gave me a shudder that no other book has EVER produced. The writing is simple, yet so moving...amazingly descriptive...and dark. Did I mention the shudder? It is Southern Gothic at its best. I cannot wait to read another of his novels. I was so saddened to learn he passed away in February; he wrote four novels and some short story collections. I plan to own them all. "

" I liked this book, recommended by a review I read from Stephen King. It kept me page turning until the wee hours of the night, and I haven't found a book that I have wanted to read like that in a long time. "

" It really caught me off guard. I know there is more to this book than what I grasped and that there is more to William Gay than what he showed in this novel. It's a strange, wonderful and oh-so-very-overwhelming experience to read him. There is something very southern about TWILIGHT, more than with your typical southern novel. It would be real marvellous if it wasn't so damn grim. It was good, don't get me wrong, just an avalanche of data and sensations I was not ready to process. "

" There is a fantastic bookstore in downtown Franklin, TN, called Landmark Books, owned by an extremely knowledgeable lover of books named Joel. He specializes in First Edition, and talked me into buying this author signed First. William Gay is not for the faint of heart. He deals with the darker sides of humanity through the southern gothic tradition. He does this while telling a great story, ie Steinbeck. Stephen King said in his year end review that this is the best book of 2007. I recommend it if you can handle a very dark subtext. "

" Is it sufficient to say that this was depressing, but not so depressing as to be wonderful? "

" I didn't even get through 1/4 of this book. It jumped all over the place and couldn't keep up with it. Didn't really care for the author's writing either. No punctuation other than periods. "

" A creepy Southern Gothic tale involving young children, old men, and dead bodies. Some necrophilia throw in as well. Gay writes wonderfully; gorgeous poetic sentences add to the color of this book. "

" William Gay turns a simple, straightforward man-hunts-man story into a work of southern Gothic that reads like an allegory. An allegory for what, I'm uncertain. There are some gorgeous and eerie descriptions of backwoods life in here. "

" I really enjoy reading William Gay. Sentences remind me of Cormac McCarthy. "

" Really enjoyed this greatly written novel. He brought great characters to life and as a unique writing style. It's wonderfully uncomfortable! "

" Southern Gothic is alive and well. "

" If you aren't a Southerner, you might not get it all. But read it anyway. This is some good story. "

" Gay is an excellent storyteller--if you like bootlegger's daughters and psycho hillbillies and you can get past the purple passages. "

" Dark and rather gross in some parts, but hard to put down. "

" At times I could almost taste the sweat and dirt. The language is direct, at times powerful, and the story moves at a fast clip. Gay does not waste time with trifles, he plows you right through the heart of the tale. Kudos! "

" Started off great and sort of just lost it with some pretty average writing. Over all I did enjoy it though. It would have gotten one or two stars had it not been for the necrophiliac undertaker angle... I mean who doesn't love those guys? "