This book is moody and interesting. It's a little bit H.P. Lovecraft and a little bit country. I love the character, he is honorable and serious. The attitudes and nostalgic emotions I experienced while reading it were surprising. I've never read a somewhat creepy, fantasy-western!. That being said, it's different and touching. I loved it.
Louis L'Amour meets H.P. Lovecraft in this thrilling western epic about a former Civil War soldier wracked by enigmatic visions . . .
Set in the 1880s, the story follows Ovid Vesper, a former Union soldier who has been having enigmatic visions after surviving one of the Civil War's most gruesome battles, the Battle of Antietam. As he travels across the country following those visions, he finds himself in stranger and increasingly more dangerous encounters with other worlds hidden in the spaces of his own mind, not to mention the dangers of the Wild West.
This plot is so odd, but it's quirky. Though it starts off in the mundane, it quickly branches off into the bizarre. The exploration of a certain kind of immortality along with its unique effects is fascinating to me. This book left me wanting more.
He can’t die… but they can still make him bleed.Hector Domini never asked for much. Just some peace, quiet, and a couple million pesos. But those things are hard to come by when you’re a young drug chemist, trying to make ends meet in the deserts of Mexico. When Hector discovers a mysterious fern with the power to grant immortality, his problems aren’t solved. They’re multiplied. Enter Cruz K. Flores, Mexico’s most powerful drug lord. He wants immortality, too- and he’ll do anything it takes to get it.Hector is forced to go on the run- not for his life, but…
I can count on one hand how many times I've read a "commentary" in book format, but I read it because the topic was interesting and I found Douglas Wilson's writing style to be imaginative. I grew up in a classic Christian environment where the book of Revelation was about the anti-christ, a boogyman character used to invoke fear and trembling in Christians and potential converts. The perspective in the book is actually about the revelation of Jesus as King, how he knows and loves his church, which is a positive perspective.
"Though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators." ~ G.K. Chesterton
The book of Revelation was written to do just that: reveal. But most commentaries nowadays either engage in bizarre speculations about the future, or they keep an embarrassed distance from all the apocalyptic events that the apostle John says will “shortly take place.”
In this commentary, Douglas Wilson provides a passage-by-passage walkthrough of the entire book, showing how John's most notorious prophecies concern the Fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Explaining symbols and…
Edin is a young man who yearns to break free of Earth’s overbearing regulation and provide a better life for his family. In the year 2110 he struggles to convince his pregnant wife to spend their life-savings on tickets to join Earth’s first off-planet colony. After she tells him off, he shoots himself in the foot with his impulsiveness and discovers that injustice runs deeper than he imagined. Following a string of tragic losses, Edin must choose between pursuing freedom or moving back home. Little does Edin know, plans have been set in motion, and soon, the colony’s launch party is tragically interrupted by a politically motivated assassination. The assassin, who spent much of her young life alone on the streets of Brazil, accepts a contract from an unknown and powerful entity. She fights her conscience while navigating a treacherous path toward the completion of her contract. Her decisions will forever alter the fate of Earth’s first colony and maybe even offer her a path to redemption.
