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By The Silver Water Of Lake Champlain (2014)

by Joe Hill(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

006235955X (ISBN13: 9780062359551)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

William Morrow Paperbacks

review 1: I think I want my $2 back. I think Amazon should Bundle or Joe Hill should just do a complication. I read this in like 4 minutes. Should have read the description more so I knew exactly what i was getting into.I'm still enraged that Amazon is charging taxes on ELECTRONIC BOOKS. What is this world coming too that digital content that doesn't even exist in the physical world, can be taxed ://
review 2: "They had all heard about the monster that lived in the lake."Although not as famous as "Nessie", the prehistoric creature rumored to reside in Scotland's Loch Ness, "Champ" has had its fair share of attention over the years as a similar beast that supposedly lives in the deep waters of Lake Champlain. In Joe Hill's novella, By The Silver Water Of Lake Champlain, t... morehree children out on a morning walk along the beach may have just found proof of Champ's existence.Gail London and her friend, Joel Quarrel, speculate on the possible sinking of a ship somewhere in the middle of the lake while Joel's little brother, Ben, plays with a tin cowboy in the sand. Hearing a mournful foghorn in the distance, Gail and Joel climb upon a previously unnoticed large, gray boulder to see if they can make out anything along the mist covered waters. Eventually, they discover that the boulder is actually the corpse of an ancient beast and thrill themselves both with exploration of the creature as well as the possibilities of fame and fortune that accompany such a find.By The Silver Water Of Lake Champlain is a coming of age tale that, on the surface, brings to mind Stephen King's novella, "The Body" (adapted as Stand By Me for the screen in 1986), from his book Different Seasons. Joe Hill's novella features kids on a similar journey filled with speculation even though it takes place solely on a small stretch of beach rather than through the countryside. Like King, Hill's characterization lends more authenticity to the story, giving us a glimpse of what their lives are like and how they struggle to bridge childhood to adolescence to eventual adulthood. Their imaginations are still fertile, though you can see the cold world ahead slowly washing over them like the waves lapping at Lake Champlain.There is a bit of foreshadowing near the beginning of By The Silver Water Of Lake Champlain that prepares you for what transpires at the end, but it's only really evident once the reader arrives at the incident which brings closure to the children's adventure. The creeping dread of the mournful foghorn underlies the soulful foreshadowing and, in the hands of a lesser writer, would be heavy handed and cliched. Hill's talent for characterization and storytelling pulls you in and grabs you, letting go only when it's too late.This review originally appeared on thisoldhauntedhouse.com and thebookie-mosnter.com less

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