Like those confirmed homebodies who stayed up half the night devouring "Into Thin Air," the larger audience for "The Last Dive" craves suspenseful tales in which foolish mistakes or just plain bad luck leads to hairbreadth escapes or something far, far worse.
Like a box of bonbons, they are best dipped into rather than devoured in one sitting.
Growing up, I devoured novels translated into braille and adapted into audio books, but there was never an equivalent for comic books.
Who doesn't remember as a child the joy of taking off the top of the Oreo cookie to reveal the sweet delicious white cream that we devoured or dunked into our glass of cold milk?
Testimony at the March trial revealed that they devoured newspapers brought into the compound by friends and watched daily television news broadcasts, taping Freemen segments for later viewing by men on guard duty.
Typically, the domestic season is not so much welcomed back after the international break as torn into, devoured with the twitching fervour of a lover home from war or Sunday hair of the dog.
The Nile perch, a species introduced into Victoria's waters in the 1960's, has destroyed nearly every other form of life in the lake, and is apparently in the process of devouring itself into extinction.
Growth, Tim says, is the only way to eventually get to a point to where they can start bringing in a positive cash flow and can begin turning their now venture capital devouring machine into something that can show signs of actually making some real money.
and G-stringed hangers-on, before needing a rest, but this is a book to be dipped into, not devoured.
As the plankton feast they convert the nitrate into ammonium, which is then devoured by other microbes and converted into nitrite.
