Three New Books...

I just bought some new books... wondering if anyone has read any?

Risk Factor by Charles Atkins
An out-of-control teenager attacks her mother in an emergency room. Upstairs, in an inpatient psychiatric unit, a nurse is stabbed to death. The murder suspect, a seventeen-year-old boy with schizophrenia, becomes catatonic. Enter Dr. Molly Katz. a senior psychiatric resident and mother of two, who, in an attempt to understand how she missed murder in the mind of her patient gets drawn into the dark world of kids gone bad- really bad.
Through Molly's eyes we track the steps of a killer from the streets and suburbs of Boston to the wards of a hospital for the criminally insane. As Molly struggles to free a boy from psychosis and the threat of prison, the killer's thirst for blood grows and his eyes turn to Molly and her children. It's nature versus nurture at its wildest as we face the ultimate question: Is evil learned or can a child be born without a soul?

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry [site of the classics It and Insomnia], four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.
Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men with seperate lives and seperate troubles. But the ties endure. Each hunting season the foursome reunite in the woods of Maine. This year, a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented, mumbling something about lights in the sky. His incoherant ravings prove to be disturbingly prescient. Before long, these men will be plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past- and in the Dreamcatcher.
Stephen King's first full-length novel since Bag of Bones is, more than anything, a story of how men remember, and how they find their courage. Not since The Stand has King crafted a story of such astonishing range- and never before has he contended so frankly with the heart of darkness.

Blue Angel by Francine Prose
It has been years since Swenson, a professor of creative writing at a small New England college, has published a novel of his own. It's been even longer since a student of his has shown a glimmer of talent. And academia with its increasingly stifling politically correct invironment, isn't what it used to be. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare gift for writing. Fearless and ambitious, Angela seems to be the answer to Swenson's prayers. Better yet, she wants his help. What could be more perfect? However, as experience shows, the road to hell is paved with good intentions...
A sublime stylist and satirist, Francine Prose is one of the treasures of contemporary literature. No one writes more wisely about love and marriage, or about the many forms of seduction of youth, of fame, of literary success. Blue Angel is also a withering take on modern academic morses, a scathing tale of colliding cultures that vividly shows just what can happen when academic politics crashes head-on into political correctness- and to the innocent [or not-so-innocent] men and women caught in the wreckage.
Blue Angel is that rarest of gems: a novel that is a delight and a pleasure to read, a comic tour de force by one of our most inspired and gifted writers. Blue Angeldoes for creative writing programs what Upton Sinclair's The Jungle did for the meat-packing industry.