DARK WATER

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A Line On The Water is still one of my favourite books so I was really looking forward to reading this one. I was not disappointed, excellent stuff again! Loved it!” KEVIN DOBSON

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We did not refer to the fact that we were on this vessel, trapped in this demented cage, because we could not get off: because – as long as we wanted to stay alive – there was simply nowhere else to go.” Truth, I feel, is one of the core themes of this book. But the madness of the mind is, too. When protagonist Hiram is taken on as assistant physician at Charlestown’s mental asylum, the story begins to open its doors and show its true colours. I will admit I was briefly disheartened the moment Hiram returned to Boston after sailing on the Orbis. I had, in my mind, prepared myself for a book set entirely onboard, and was quite happy with that self-made premonition … but alas, the heart of the story wasn’t to be found on that boat – and I soon came to love the land-dwellers world, too. The link between these two Gothic environments lies in the main characters. In the first half of the 19th Century, as a newly-qualified physician, narrator Hiram Carver joins the crew of the USS Orbis for a journey from Boston south towards Cape Horn. Aboard ship he befriends William Borden. Though barely older than Hiram, Borden already has a reputation in the seafaring world as the “Hero of the Providence”. Years before, aboard the said ship, Borden negotiated with a group of mutineers for the life of the Captain and a group of sailors, and then led them to safety across the Pacific aboard a fragile dinghy. He’s a living legend, no less. Yet, something seems to trouble the man, and a violent episode on the Orbis threatens to bring his career to a premature end. Other real-life individuals affected by the environmental catastrophe in Parkersburg and who appear in the film, include Darlene and Joe Kiger, Crystal Wheeler and Amy Brode (Wilbur's daughters), Jim Tennant (Wilbur's brother), and Sarah and Rob Bilott. Teddy, Charlie and Tony Bilott (Sarah and Rob's sons) also appear in the film. Turton also never overwhelms the reader with the intricacy of the plot. His writing has a skillful ease to it and is lovely to read. Ever so gently, he carries the reader along as he slowly reveals the interconnectedness of the mystery’s pieces, leaving not even a ghost of a plot hole. And for fun, he throws in plenty of what I call “mini twists” – small, unexpected surprises that work well to maintain a high level of engagement and interest in the story.Though it is Hiram Carver who leads us through the novel’s intriguing plot, it is perhaps William Borden who most attracts the reader’s attention. Like Carver, we are caught between his strangeness and charm, and we remain enthralled to the enduring mystery of what really happened on that small dinghy cast adrift in the Pacific. Then William Borden went mad. Hiram returned to the shores and became a psychiatrist. Borden was sent to be admitted as a patient into Hiram's ward. Hiram ventured to find the cause of Borden's madness; to save his fallen hero from himself; to "save" the (attractive) fiancée still awaiting Borden's return; and, just maybe - to claim to the world that he, Hiram Carver, had done the impossible and saved a hero and found the panacea for all human madness. Themes of hunger, physical and spiritual, recur in this story and the writing is often lovely. Not an easy read, but an interesting one. No happy end to the story and I felt for the female characters who were so constrained in what they could hope for from life. The past was filled with sharp things, he’d said. He couldn’t reach for a memory without drawing blood doing it. This one. Isn't this the kind of book I hate the most to review? At one point, I was bewildered and disoriented, silently rehearsing a three-star review that would bash this book while exuding practiced objectivity; at another, I leaned over the book, refused to sleep, and when I finally did, I lay in my bed grappling with what I had just read, silently sketching out a thousand-word essay, divided into at least four sections not counting the intro and conclusion, on its metaphors and symbols and images ... on all that boiled beneath the calmness of Dr. Hiram Carver's practiced professionalism, all that dark water was at once about the ocean and at once something else.

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a b c d Dark Water (2005). "Dark Water (2005) - Financial Information". The Numbers: Where Date and The Movie Business Meet. Now, Hiram's delusional hero complex is well-explored; his hypocrisy and entitlement are littered throughout the book. Yet this is not a character study. Or maybe it is, but the characters and their struggles are so absolutely painfully clear as allegories for something else, that it's absolutely painfully hard for me not to notice them. Strong is strong and weak is weak, and it doesn't matter if you wear breeches or skirts or if you're the latter. Life will hammer you flat" This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) So, we start on board a ship with our hero Hiram Carver taking up his first job as ship's doctor. And what a rude awakening that turned out to be as it was in rather difficult circumstances that he first met William Borden, a hero of the past but now struggling somewhat. This meeting and what happened thereafter forged links between the two men and, years later, they were to meet again in of all things an Insane Asylum. Carver resuming his role as Borden's doctor once again in a mission to cure Borden's madness.

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