Green River Rising

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Summary: I want to produce the play.
Review: After working in a high security prison that had three riots while I was there, this book has the reality and redeeming values that make a good work. I am trying to find the author and the screenplay.

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Summary: Pleasured
Review: Despite my initial reservations about a book with what one can only describe as a run of the mill plot, within the first couple of chapters I was captivated. The Author takes you so deep into a dark, violent and enclosed world that you feel you can almost smell the carnage and taste the fear. Whilst there are some poorly improbable moments in this book eg. the sex scenes, glibly glossing over these allows you to enjoy what I can only describe as an INTENSE READ.

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Summary: Well written, one of the best books i have ever read.
Review: Green River Rising is a brilliantly written book about hardened prison life, which other authers wont tread. Shocking, violent, you wont be able to put it down. A must

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Summary: Best prison novela I've read
Review: Having been a guest of a few southern cross bar hotels, I found myself being carried back to those days with an uncomfortable feeling. Although the story was a bit strained, I felt the angst the characters felt. Although not for everyone, (there were a bit of gratuitous sexual scenes), I enjoyed the book & couldn't put it down. Of course, I also enjoyed An American Psycho.

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Summary: Savage, compelling, intelligent journey into hell
Review: HEAT, HUMIDITY, HELL: ANARCHY AT GREEN RIVER © by Carolyn J. Seeley. Reverse your image of a prison, like the negative of a photograph. What could be more safe than a glass enclosure, dedicated to the reform and social reengineering of convicts? What happens to men when light is punishment and discipline? Green River State Penitentiary in East Texas, imagined by English author Tim Willocks in his novel, Green River Rising, is a facility that sentences men to prison lives without darkness, to be scorched clean by light. Now, what happens when the prison warden's nineteenth century philosophy of prison reform meets twentieth century East Texas taxpayers, parole boards, politicians? This is Willocks' stage for his drama of a violent uprising, spurred by a warden with a failed dream and crumbling mind, who touches off the uprising for the sake of it--to achieve change through force, to move life along through sacrifice and blood, the more senseless and arbitrary, the better. Green River Rising is savage yet compelling; a page turner, an intelligent book. Well plotted, with memorable characters, Willocks' writing conveys the stifling sense of entrapment in a prison gone amok. However, the underlying themes of loyalty, survival, friendship, and love transcend the gore and give the book its depth. It is not light reading, but a gripping, intense tale rumored soon to be brought to a theater near you. Although Willocks wrote the screenplay, read the book before Hollywood gets its hooks in.

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Summary: Savage, compelling, intelligent journey into hell
Review: HEAT, HUMIDITY, HELL: ANARCHY AT GREEN RIVER© by Carolyn J. Seeley. Reverse your image of a prison, like the negative of a photograph. What could be more safe than a glass enclosure, dedicated to the reform and social reengineering of convicts? What happens to men when light is punishment and discipline? Green River State Penitentiary in East Texas, imagined by English author Tim Willocks in his novel, Green River Rising, is a facility that sentences men to prison lives without darkness, to be scorched clean by light. Now, what happens when the prison warden's nineteenth century philosophy of prison reform meets twentieth century East Texas taxpayers, parole boards, politicians? This is Willocks' stage for his drama of a violent uprising, spurred by a warden with a failed dream and crumbling mind, who touches off the uprising for the sake of it--to achieve change through force, to move life along through sacrifice and blood, the more senseless and arbitrary, the better. Green River Rising is savage yet compelling; a page turner, an intelligent book. Well plotted, with memorable characters, Willocks' writing conveys the stifling sense of entrapment in a prison gone amok. However, the underlying themes of loyalty, survival, friendship, and love transcend the gore and give the book its depth. It is not light reading, but a gripping, intense tale rumored soon to be brought to a theater near you. Although Willocks wrote the screenplay, read the book before Hollywood gets its hooks in.

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Summary: THE BEST PRISON FICTION BOOK EVER WRITTEN
Review: I dare you to read "Green River Rising" and then the "The Green Mile" back to back. You will probably throw "The Green Mile" in the toilet after going 1/4 the way and then re-read "Green River Rising".

If you like books like Stehen Hunter's "Dirty White Boys" or Mr. Willock's other book "Bloodstained Kings" (has there ever been a cooler title?) then you will love "Green River Rising".

I enjoy guys like John Connolly, Stephen Hunter, Brian Keene, James W. Hall, and the Child/Preston collaborative novels. if you are familiar with these guys and you like them, then give Willocks a try. He's an original, creative genius.

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Summary: A Compelling, Gut Wrenching, Roller Coaster Ride. Yeah!!
Review: I loved this book. Very well written with real characters and bar none the sexiest love scene I've almost ever read in a thriller. This book is smart and scary. It sizzles. Read it!

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Summary: An immensley intense read; sure-fire screenplay material
Review: I read this book; then I had to read it again to re-live some of the intense moments of Tim Willocks novel. It could be said that this book is not for everyone... but if you're 'bag' is a roller-coaster ride of violence, relationships, sex & the male psyche then this will keep you hooked til' the last page.

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Summary: Prisonthriller
Review: I think it's stupid to put Stephen King and Tim Willocks on the same level. Green River Rising is a thriller. It reminds more of an actionmovie. Stephen King on the other side writes horror. Green River Rising doesn't have any mysterious elements, and has much more action then King books. Kings books are very detailed, and GRG on the other sides has a pretty quick developing story without pagelong descreptions of for example rooms. To me GRG was like a good actionmovie. I read the german translation, and I thought that the bad language and all the violence fit in the atmosphere of the book. The books lives off his sick crazy characters. And I think that it's really interesting to read chapters out of views of mentally ill people. If you like movies like "Face off", but you like deeper stories and complexer characters you should read this book. It's one of my all time favorites. And people that complain about the dirty language and the violence should not even write a review about this. It's about a prison with mentally ill people. So what do you think what they are doing, maybe playing with puppets and drink tea?