Beautiful Children : A Novel (Paperback)

from ilive2read

Hard to read but riveting! I loved the way Bock writes and especially his way of making so many characters so real - it seemed like every character was well known by the author. At the end of the book I was disappointed that it was over and diappointed that the story was such a downer but positiv...

from msf59

Let me start out by saying, this is an author to watch! [Beautiful Children] is his debut and it shows a lot of promise. Much like Price's [Lush Life], the premise of the story is a simple one and in this story a child is missing from an affluent Las Vegas family and from here Bock builds a night...

from LynnB

This story of life on the streets, and on the underside, of Las Vegas was one that I found just okay at the beginning, but came to like more and more as I got deeper into the book. For those of you who have started and given up, try picking the book up again...I think you'll be glad you did. The ...

from mamashepp

This book got a lot of great buzz when it came out, but I'm afraid to say I just didn't understand why. Perhaps it was because I was expecting something much different. This book is raw--very raw--just this side of pornography in some places. Much of the talk of sex felt gratuitous to me. The boo...

from mamashepp

This book got a lot of great buzz when it came out, but I'm afraid to say I just didn't understand why. Perhaps it was because I was expecting something much different. This book is raw--very raw--just this side of pornography in some places. Much of the talk of sex felt gratuitous to me. The boo...