Review Exchange Connundrum
Nov. 3rd, 2006 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseApparently, at some point, I signed up for a review exchange thing. I must have done so in an caffeine induced haze, because I only have a vague memory of hearing about it on BroadUniverse or somewhere like that. Anyway, the idea is supposed to be that authors send each other their books and post reviews on Amazon.com and elsewhere. The general idea is one I can totally get behind. I like the idea of authors supporting each other.
But, now, sitting on my desk is a book by Byron Justice called VIOLENT NIGHT. I’ve read about 50 pages of it, and I have a feeling that if I read this thing all the way to the end my head will explode. It’s not that the writing is bad. In fact, it’s not. It’s somewhat compelling (a little like that radio show about the guy in need of redemption), and there’s the other similarity: this is Christian a post-Rapture story.
Here’s the blurb: “When they were six, Mitch Murphy was Leo Ramblin’s protector. But when they were high school students, a thousand miles and a decade later, Murphy twisted his rage against the world into an obsessive hatred of his former friend, a hatred that fester for a half a century, until the moment finally comes for revenge.”
“But Murphy’s drive to kill Ramblin is just one part of a much larger drama. Hurricanes and other apocalyptic catastrophes split the world into three parts: The Other Side, a place of tranquility, where evil has no foothold; The Place of Judgment, a lonely world where the laws of physics and time do not apply; and the Forsaken World, where humans wage a Godless struggle for survival amid the barren ruins of the Apocalypse. Lightning is a gateway between these worlds, and evil tried to make the jump. Jesus Christ Himself is involved as the plot grows to involve the sons of both men, the members of Temple Shadows Youth group, and characters of all three worlds.”
Hmmmm. You can see my conundrum.
I sent this guy my books.
How do you think he’s going to respond to Archangel Protocol?
But, now, sitting on my desk is a book by Byron Justice called VIOLENT NIGHT. I’ve read about 50 pages of it, and I have a feeling that if I read this thing all the way to the end my head will explode. It’s not that the writing is bad. In fact, it’s not. It’s somewhat compelling (a little like that radio show about the guy in need of redemption), and there’s the other similarity: this is Christian a post-Rapture story.
Here’s the blurb: “When they were six, Mitch Murphy was Leo Ramblin’s protector. But when they were high school students, a thousand miles and a decade later, Murphy twisted his rage against the world into an obsessive hatred of his former friend, a hatred that fester for a half a century, until the moment finally comes for revenge.”
“But Murphy’s drive to kill Ramblin is just one part of a much larger drama. Hurricanes and other apocalyptic catastrophes split the world into three parts: The Other Side, a place of tranquility, where evil has no foothold; The Place of Judgment, a lonely world where the laws of physics and time do not apply; and the Forsaken World, where humans wage a Godless struggle for survival amid the barren ruins of the Apocalypse. Lightning is a gateway between these worlds, and evil tried to make the jump. Jesus Christ Himself is involved as the plot grows to involve the sons of both men, the members of Temple Shadows Youth group, and characters of all three worlds.”
Hmmmm. You can see my conundrum.
I sent this guy my books.
How do you think he’s going to respond to Archangel Protocol?
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Date: 2006-11-03 06:26 pm (UTC)I was brought up by people who believed in the Rapture. Still makes me angry to think about it. It's an evil doctrine, especially when it is drummed into little kids.
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Date: 2006-11-03 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-06 11:18 pm (UTC)That aside, there is in any case something extremely warped about continually hoping for the end of the world, taking pleasure in every 'sign' that seems to fit the fantasy.
It was fortunate for me, I think, that in the time and place where I grew up (fifties and sixties England) people like my parents were way out on the lunatic fringe, a tiny minority of heretical Christians. I keep being told that these days more than half of all US citizens believe in the Rapture. Now that is extremely scary. And most frightening of all are the ones who think they should be helping God out in the matter of bringing the world to an end. At least my parents and their friends thought that God should be left to manage his own cataclysms.
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Date: 2006-11-03 06:48 pm (UTC)Fabulous! What could go wrong?
Date: 2006-11-03 07:27 pm (UTC)You must let us know what happens,
The Plaid Adder
OMG! Brings New Meaning to WWJD?
Date: 2006-11-03 09:02 pm (UTC)The mind boggles.
Re: Fabulous! What could go wrong?
Date: 2006-11-03 09:06 pm (UTC)Satan slash
Date: 2006-11-04 04:58 pm (UTC)C ya,
The Plaid Adder
Satan play
Date: 2006-11-06 03:52 pm (UTC)sigh.
Re: Fabulous! What could go wrong?
Date: 2006-11-03 10:24 pm (UTC)Cheshire Smile
Date: 2006-11-03 08:24 pm (UTC)Assuming he came up with the title.
I dunno. Rolla the dice.
Small press...
Date: 2006-11-03 09:05 pm (UTC)