I first started reading John Saul as a teenager. My very first novel by John, and still in my top 5 ALL TIME favorite books list, is The God Project. This is the book that has the 2nd best ending of any book I've read (the other being Pet Semetary as discussed in the Stephen King post earlier). I re-read this book a couple of years ago to refresh my memory because at that point it had been about 15 years since I had initially read it, and the ONLY part I could remember was the ending. Even 15 years later, I still loved it.
John Saul has written many books, and I've read most of them. Other favorites are Suffer the Children, The Unwanted, The Unloved, Comes the Blind Fury, Nathaniel, When the Wind Blows, and Cry for the Strangers.
In the mid to late 90s, a short-lived fad was for popular authors to write a serial novel consisting of 5 or 6 booklets. Stephen King published The Green Mile, Jackie Collins published L.A. Connections, and John Saul published The Blackstone Chronicles. It was a really fun concept, each mini book coming out about every 6 months until the whole "novel" was complete. I wish these three and other popular authors had done a few more. I really enjoyed them.
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