Book Reports #3 and #4

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Well, not really book reports.  Just quickie recommendations this time.  I recently read The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty for the first time.  I saw the movie years and years ago, and I'm afraid I can't remember if it was very different from the book.  It's really a very religious book, dealing a lot with questions of faith and belief.  Quite shocking, quite suspenseful, quite short. Well worth the read.

The second recommendation is a book I just finished that may be one of the best books I've read in I don't know how long.  It is A Kiss Before Dying, written by Ira Levin in 1953.  He also wrote Rosemary's Baby and The Boys From Brazil, among others, both also excellent books.  But A Kiss... takes place in the fifties,  and it involves an ambitious young man, his pregnant girlfriend (probably pretty shocking in 1953) and her demise, her sisters, and how their stories intertwine.  It's suspenseful, exciting, and surprising, with some nice twists.  Again, quite short.  Must be why both these books made such good movies--short books with lots of intense, meaningful action.

Enjoy!