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Title: Black Wax by Benjamin Watson ISBN: 0-7388-4313-X Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: 20 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: all i can say is WOW
Comment: It is a rare book that can entertain, captivate, and inspire--Benjamin Watson has written such a book. This book is raw and honest, full of wonderful vocabulary and detail, amusing as all get out, not too sacred, yet holy to the core. If you're not shallow, phony, prudish, or excessively fearful, you WILL LOVE this book!!!!!!!

Rating: 5
Summary: Notify the underground: it's a new classic!
Comment: With stark honesty, sorrowful humor, jarring sensitivity, and frightening (almost embarrassing) familiarity, Watson fearlessly phrases a life convincing us that hope, purity, and innocence, once truly experienced, somehow survive even while drowning in the most terrible circumstances. Even though my primary fascination while reading was with Alexander Wokowski's desperate, sinful activity, rendered with Watson's slick, punchy, and altogether gratifying style, this truth burned through. I wonder if this isn't how Salinger would have written had he come of age in the millenial era.

Rating: 5
Summary: A new Henry Miller
Comment: It's been a long time since I read a book that took me by the throat like this. If you like fine literature with a grim, humorous, beatnik sensibility, this is for you. Watson separates himself from the pack of young, hip writers writing about the underground scene by the sheer careful craftsmanship of his writing - most writers just seem to be rehashing that stark, simple, bloodless Raymond Carver or Brett Easton Ellis style of conveying the feelings of Generation X. But Watson reminds me of a Nabokov for the people, an Updike for the coffeeshop. Combined with this is some of the most honest sexual discussion since "Portnoy's Complaint" or "Fear of Flying". Basically a story about a jazz musician and his screwed up bizarre love triangle with two lesbians, it is also a story of coping with hyper-sensitivity, the loss of innocence, being haunted by places and people, and searching for spirituality in a materialistic world. I finished the book feeling - despite all the sex, drugs, and violence - renewed, inspired, and wanting to live life to the maximum. Watson is one to watch.