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    <body><![CDATA[The small town of Villajeune, Florida is privy to a deep, dark secret. Babies die, children disappear and those that don't are haunted by nightmares of The Dark Man, who invades their thoughts, controls their minds and steals their souls. <br/>So begins &quot;Darkness&quot; from John Saul. While no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60159412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first John Saul book I've read, and I wasn't too impressed. The story is a little hard to follow, since the perspective jumps around. Each character knows something that the others don't so when it switches to a different character, you're reading about something brand new. One chapter ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34152614">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked reading John Saul when I was in jr high/high school. The writing isn't the greatest, but they're entertaining. They often involve genetic mutation/disasters (on a small scale) that happen because of people interfering with nature. Think Smallville's episodes involving &quot;meteor fre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46280605">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this several years ago and can't remember much of it ... which tells me it wasn't that interesting a book.  Probably an okay read in the early teen years but I didn't care for it much.  I think King is a hard man to beat in the horror genre.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Saul consistently demonstrates a great style of writing that not only makes his books a smooth read, but captures his readers. My general disappointment in Saul's work is that the endings tend to be too predictable where I feel something more powerful should come out of the climax.<br/><br/>D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37508531">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the very first John Saul book I ever read!  I found it in a friends basement in a box full of books they were going to give away!  Of course, I took them all!  This book hooked me on John Saul's books!  A great hot-summer-night read!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is unbelievable!!! I saw this at work, ur allowed to borrow books and read them, so i grabbed it...good thing i did! Its about a cult i think, where a man called the dark man takes babies as gifts and pierces them in the chest. its complicated to explain, these children grow up as swamp ra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2340933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68500136">
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    <name><![CDATA[ღSabrinaღ]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book that I read many years ago. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent take on an age-old terror.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="54668612">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wasn't too impressed with this book. The idea was interesting but it was mostly boring, to me at least. I'm not really into these kinds of books anyway. I mostly just read it to pass the time until I found a better one.]]></body>
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    <review id="59187656">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very entertaining book.  I found myself being able to guess the outcome way before it was revealed so I wasn't that surprised at the ending when it was explained.  The only part I didn't like were the last few chapters.  I felt it over-explained what I had already concluded.  But other th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59187656">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love all of John Saul's books.  He focuses on teenagers, at least all the books of his that I've read were that way.  I empathized with his lead characters because I always feel like an outsider, which his characters always wind up being.  Saul mixes it all up with some Sci-fi to boot.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a good book. I got some 3/4 into it before dropping it for lack of interest, but I will likely finish it in time. It was a bit boring for time to time, but it also had some moments that caught me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first Saul book I ever read, Darkness captured my imagination and made me a permanent fan.  If you haven't already picked it up, I strongly recommend it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I regretted reading this book...I should have guessed it though by reading his other books...The story was interesting but the ending was horrible.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story was good, but the ending was a little contrived.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was on of my favorite frightening books as an early teen.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unpredictable and compelling - this is a great book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Saul writes great, scary novels]]></body>
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