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The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower.
To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the "daughter of none" who shares her body and mind.
Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining ka-tet climbs to the Doorway Cave...and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who in a struggle to cope -- with each other and with an alien environment -- "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term.
Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn't. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called Salem's Lot, a writer who turns out to be as shocked by them as they are by him.
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"Stephen King The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah with 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel Anderson The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her ""chap,"" demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the ""daughter of none,"" who shares her body and mind. Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining katet climbs to the Doorway Cave...and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy-bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who, in a struggle to cope -- with each other and with an alien environment -- ""go todash"" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term. Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn't. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot, a writer who turns out to be as shocked by them as they are by him. These are the simple vectors of a story rich in complexity and conflict. Its dual climaxes, one at the entrance to a deadly dining establishment and the other appended to the pages of a writer's journal, will leave readers gasping for the saga's final volume (which, Dear Reader, follows soon, say thank ya)."
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A Must Read Series.......2007-10-09
Roland is the last living member of a knightly order known as gunslingers. The world he lives in is quite different from our own, yet it bears striking similarities to it. Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West, as well as bearing magical powers and the relics of a highly advanced, but long vanished, society. Roland's quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to either be, or be located at, the nexus of all universes. Roland's world is said to have "moved on," and indeed it appears to be coming apart at the seams -- mighty nations are being torn apart by war, entire cities and regions vanish from the face of the earth without a trace, time does not flow in an orderly fashion; even the sun sometimes rises in the north and sets in the east. As the series opens, Roland's motives, goals, and even his age are unclear, though later installments shed light on these mysteries.
This series was mostly inspired by the epic poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, the full text of which was included in an appendix to the final volume. In the preface to the revised 2003 edition of The Gunslinger, King also identifies The Lord of the Rings, the Arthurian Legend, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as inspirations. He identifies Clint Eastwood's "Man with No Name" character as one of the major inspirations for Roland. King's style of location names in the series, such as Mid-World, and his development of a unique language abstract to our own, are also influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien's work.
The Dark Tower is often described in the novels as a real structure, and also as a metaphor. Part of Roland's fictional quest lies in discovering the true nature of the Tower. The series incorporates themes from multiple genres, including fantasy fiction, science fantasy, horror, and western elements. King has described the series as his magnum opus; beside the seven novels that comprise the series proper, many of his other books are related to the story, introducing concepts and characters that come into play as the series progresses.
Gutsy.......2007-09-25
If you think you have Stephen King pegged think again. In this ingenious novel we follow the continued story of Roland of Gilead's ka-tet as they split up to fulfill their destinies and, hopefully, save the Dark Tower and all of the worlds it encompasses.
Roland and Eddie head to Maine in 1977 to save the life of Calvin Tower who owns the lot on which the Rose, the incarnation of the Dark Tower on Earth, grows. Along the way they meet a character who is possibly the strangest and the biggest risk of Stephen King's career. Either King is a genius or on an immense ego trip. I go with the former, and enjoyed that scene immensley. Meanwhile Mia has totally taken over Susannah Dean's body in order to get to New York in 1999 so she can bear her "chap" for the Crimson King. There are suprises in store in this thread of the story and you will learn who Mia actually is. In another story-line Pere Callahan and Jake follow Susannah-Mia to 1999 New York to save Susannah from the clutches of the Crimson King.
Dark Tower fans will love this sixth installment. It was one of the most satisfying and down-right fun books I've read all year.
Dumber than part five........2007-08-31
If part five wasn't crappy enough, we get this. The writting and story are worse here than the last one. The great tale that was was strong with books 1-4 is soured here. Ignore 5-7 and stick with 1-4.
Dark Tower VI - Song of Susannah.......2007-08-11
Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, Book 6)
This is a great continuance of the Dark Tower series. Reading the DT series I-V is a must to fully appreciate all the nooks and crannies of Song of Susannah. It always amazes me how King ties the smallest details into completely different scenarios and goes back to explain why and how other events happened based on that.
If you're a Stephen King fan, you don't want to pass up the Dark Tower series!
good!.......2007-07-28
It was a really good read! Since it wasn't as thick as the others, I finished it quickly and was able to start The Dark Tower a few days later. :)
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If Sam Collier's life has taught him anything, it's that promises can't be trusted. . .
Especially promises from the people who were supposed to love him. People like his father. . .
Ian Collier abandoned him when he was four, and Sam was a drifter for years afterward. He's finally begun to make peace with his past--and that's when he learns the shocking news. Ian Collier is dead.
He returns to Ian's house in Seattle and finds a woman named Kathleen Cahill living there, the woman Ian had planned to marry. Within weeks Sam has fallen in love with her. Deeply in love--for the first time in his life. And then Kathleen tells him she's pregnant. With his baby? Or Ian Collier's?
Now, thanks to Kathleen, he learns a secret about his father. A secret and a truth. And now--for the first time in his life--Sam Collier understands what fatherhood really means.
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Please don't kill off main character.......2006-06-04
There were parts of this book like Sam's relationship with his adorable puppy that I absolutely adored but I wanted to witness more of Holly turning from a scared, timid little girl into a bouncing, mischievous puppy. I also admired Kathleen for overcoming severe hardships on her road to becoming a top-notch physician. However, she remained so cold and distant that I couldn't really warm to her. Also, her getting over Ian and her relationship with Sam just went so fast that it was totally unreal. In short, the characters and relationships that I liked were terribly underdeveloped leaving me dissatisfied.
There were also parts of the book that I absolutely detested. I HATE IT when an author kills off a main character in order to make room for another main character. If Stone wanted Sam and Kathleen to end up together, why couldn't she have kept Kathleen's relationship with Ian platonic but allowed him to live? After years of grieving the loss of "his" son, Ian should have been given a joyful reunion with that son.
Also, after the terrible childhood Sam had with his lying witch of a mother and the man who thought he was his stepfather, I really wanted to see him finally reunited with the man who loved him as a father should love a child and I had some major dissatisfaction with the lack of a confrontation between Sam and his mother.
I was also disappointed that Tyler remained just a shadow figure. We are told that he ends up acting as a brother to Sam, though there is no proof of that in the storyline, but how did he react when he learned of his mother duplicity? And how did Mason react when he learned that Sam was his biological son and was not, as his wife had told him, the grandson of a killer. And how realistic is it that even the most wicked stepfather would want his child kept away from another child because child number two was the grandchild of a murderer? If this is getting convoluted, you should understand that this book gets convoluted also.
I was hoping to see both Tyler and Mason confront Vanessa. Perhaps I am blood thirsty, but I really, really, really wanted to see a serious "come-to-Jesus meeting" between Vanessa and all the people she had so terribly damaged by her deceit. It really grated on me that she was apparently able to tear the family apart with her lies and yet end up free of suffering any consequences.
Bottom line, I can tolerate the good guys suffering some severe hardships if they end up winning in the end and I want the bad guy to get his just desserts. Stone did see that Grant got his just desserts but even though he was a serial killer and he murdered the mother of a main character, he was such a non-entity in the story that when he got killed I didn't really care! Perhaps it is childish to want the story to turn out "and they lived happily ever after" but, hello! I read for enjoyment and I don't enjoy seeing the good guys die and the bad guys not suffer as the result of their actions.
I think Stone missed the mark on this one and that is unfortunate because the basic premise was sheer brilliance and the book could have been the same.
Circles and circles and circles..........2005-04-28
This is the story of karma.
As another reviewer wrote, it is also a story that is not so easily followed. Scratch that. It isn't hard to follow, but there are so many "wait, isn't that the same guy who..." moments that the reader finds herself wanting to start again to make sure she's missed nothing.
The only issue I truly have with this book is that it is wrapped up too quickly. Relationships progress too easily in the end, and side plots and motivations are almost viciously cut off.
Still, though, I found the levels of love demonstrated in this book to be amazing. A very interesting concept for a book.
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Not deeply emotional or truly romantic as cover states..........2005-04-06
The book started out well enough but it quickly lost me about half way through when there were too many storylines going on and not near enough time spent on what the book is supposed to be about according to the back cover. It states that 'within weeks' Sam has fallen in love with Kathleen. They didn't meet until 3/4 of the way through the book, on the night Ian died, and they were in love the next morning, not within weeks. I thought, for someone as frigid as Kathleen was, it was a bit unbelievable that she slept with Sam within an hour or two of meeting him and then I didn't know they had until I began reading the next chapter. I don't think the author spent near enough time on the issues of the two characters (Sam's abandonment of his father and Kathleens' loss of the man she loved) and apparently they were all settled within one conversation that was not near emotional or romantic. They knew each other less than a week at the end of the book (and most of that time was spent dealing with Natalie, James and Grant) and apparently, the author forgot to send the pages to the publisher where they discussed any future they might have together or even if they wanted one together. The subplot of Natalie and James was unnecessary and again, the author spent more time on their relationship, with insecure Natalie unsure of how James felt, than she did on Sam and Kathleen's. Grant's storyline was silly and if it was meant to throw a twist in the whole story, get me on the edge of my seat, it failed because nobody really cared about Grant, Christine, James or Natalie. I would have liked to have read a whole lot more about Sam and Kathleen and maybe their feelings for each other as they grew to know each other but it was never really touched on. The book jumped all over but never seemed to center on Kathleen and Sam. I wouldn't recommend it. It was boring and goofy. The only reason I gave it two stars was for the very beginning.
engaging family drama.......2003-12-31
Years ago Seattle based philanthropist Ian Collier helps Kathleen Cahill by paying for her to attend college and medical school. Now a doctor, Kathleen wants a child and though friends Ian would like to sire her kid because years ago he lost the only child he ever had. Kathleen accepts his kind offer as she has great respect for Ian. He also asks her to marry him so their child can be raised with two parents though he expects their relationship to remain friendly and platonic. She loves his loyalty, but tells him it is unnecessary. He says he cares for her too much so he must help her any way he can, but Ian dies not long afterward.
As he nears forty, wanderer Sam Collier settles down near Medford, Oregon buying Sarah's orchard, a place where apples grow. When he learns that the man who sired him, but deserted him over three decades ago, died, Sam goes to Seattle to settle the estate. Sam hates Ian and wants to detest Kathleen, but instead falls in love with her. As she reciprocates his feelings, she informs him that she is pregnant, but the father could be his father not him.
This is an engaging family drama that borders on the rim of soap opera, but Katherine Stone keeps her cast consistent and loaded with doubts and that make for a deep character study. Ms. Stone furbishes a deep look at fractured relationships in which love is not enough to heal childhood wounds that remain bleeding as adults. Fans of contemporary tales starring protagonists whose respective hearts of stones are chipped away will want to read this compelling novel.
Harriet Klausner
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"Inside the circle, I will return to you" were the words scrawled amidst dark, penciled swirls in the final hours of the life of a young man, without family, dying from cancer. Among his final requests was that his ashes be spread over a remote lake in the swampy wilderness of eastern North Carolina.
Thus do three people of widely divergent backgrounds and ideas, who knew the young man only in illness and death, come to find themselves marooned on a tiny island during a major hurricane.
Junuh is a young, black oncologist from the Low Country of South Carolina, where his parents were lost in Hurricane Hugo. Ruth is a bisexual, New Age healer. Reese beat alcoholism and drug addiction to become a fundamentalist street preacher.
On the island, this unlikely trio encounters a bearded, autistic hermit who calls himself Son and seeks to lure them to a place he calls Paradise.
In the face of the storm, the three come to terms with themselves, one another, natural forces, life, death, and spirituality.
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5 massmarket paperback Titles By Katherine Stone - Love Songs - Happy Endings - Illusions - The Other Twin - Another Man's Son
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In First Lensman, the second book in the Lensman series, we find the benevolent super beings of Arisia ready to bestow the first "lens" on a human being (which, among other things, will give humans telepathic powers). The honor goes to Virgil Samms, who will ever after be known as the "First Lensman." But it's a title that he'll have to earn by establishing the Galactic Patrol, a group that is at once powerful and incorruptible, and will protect the universe from the evil and almost-unstoppable Eddorians. If that weren't tough enough, Samms must also dodge assassination attempts at home and help his second in command Rod "The Rock" Kinnison win the presidency of North America. And that's just the beginning of his troubles.
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Super Reader.......2007-08-27
Virgil Samms is one of the head honchos of the Triplanetary organisation. He is the man the Arisians have decided will become the first wearer of the Lens, being of the right ethical and genetic stuff.
Samms must overcome political problems on Earth, where Rod Kinnison is an honest politician, and husband the creation of the Galactic Patrol. The Lens is a dream come come true, a badge of office that it is impossible for criminals to duplicate.
The scope for this book is therefore still not as broad as what is yet to come, and is still setting the stage.
When we were young and space was new.......2007-04-24
When we were young and space was new
and unfettered by knowledge of dark matter
or scientific belief, tear drop shaped space ships made for a vacuum
that doesn't need streamlining
and death rays that defy all science became part of our active imaginations.
With new reincarnations of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon continuing
I read this 1980's 15th reprinting of the second in the Lensmen series.
I have an older yet 1970's version of Second Stage Lensman that says it is the 8th printing.
They both seem to have started their printing history in the early 1950's
after appearing in a monthly magazine as serials?
The writing style is by modern standards stilted,
the characterization is kind of patchy,
the descriptions are at times puzzling,
and the plot with it's battles between fleets of space ships seems very predictable.
I really doubt a modern editor would consider this book worthy of publication
with Star Wars setting a new higher standard for futuristic space operas.
The two elder races that represent idealized forces of good and evil in puppet masters
are mostly dull and unbelievable as Godlike aliens. Yet the book is still an entertaining read more than 50 years later.
There seems little doubt that generations in 100 years will also be reading
these serial novels that are so young in spirit. The closest modern series is J.K. Rowling's Henry Potter books.
There are many Sci Fi and fantasy serial novels in modern terms by writers
who are actually in technical terms better, but none seems to touch this raw vitality that E.E. "Doc" Smith innately had.
He created his own living and breathing future world deep in space
where astronomical distances and faster than light drives are less than believable; like "B" westerns where the 6 guns keep firing
and are never reloaded. In both cases it seems to be the continual action
and heroes winning against odds that endears them as entertainment and not as "high" literature.
Having read of late some high literature in Pulitzer Prize winners that were either very dull or very negative,
I have to say that there is no comparison: the space opera like the comic book
will be popular when literary some master pieces of today are totally forgotten.
If I were a movie maker I'd stop making remakes of H.G. Wells novels
and get screen plays made up for these novels!
Second Stage Lensman (#5 in the series)
Be warned--this series is dreck.......2005-12-16
It is odd that the Amazon review form has a check-off box to attest that the reviewer is over the age of 13. It is difficult to imagine anyone over the age of 13 having much positive to say about the Lensman Series.
E.E. Smith, who according to John Clute was a food chemist specializing in donuts, wrote this series for the pulps in the 1930's. Its primary audience was clearly adolescent boys. I read it when I was about 17 or 18 and read it to conclusion, even though the writing was dreadful, because it had a propulsive, energetic plot that hooks anyone vulnerable to space opera. The basic device is good aliens versus evil aliens in a galaxy and eons spanning struggle in which humans are anointed to administer the coup de grace to forces of cosmic evil. We are, of course, the center of the universe. Every book in the series ratchets up the stage another order of magnitude. Had the notion of a multiverse been current in the 1930's, Smith would no doubt have written further volumes to involve the other universes as well.
The problem with the series is that aside from the addicting quality of space opera, every other aspect of Smith's writing is just god-awful. He simply has no skills at all in the craft of writing. The dialogue, characterizations, and style are so bad you have to read the books to believe it. Psychology, motivation, wit, nuance, ambiguity. What do those words mean ? I couldn't fairly compare the series to comic books because quite a few comic books these days have literary merit. Perhaps they would be comparable to comic books in the 1950's between the demise of E.C. and the rise of Marvel, but even these probably had better editing.
I am not inveighing against the pleasures of space opera. There's abundance of it out there for your enjoyment by competent authors like Iain Banks or Vernor Vinge, who won't make you wince while you read. Some, like Jack Vance, are master stylists.
I have many times encountered readers with strong prejudices against science fiction and fantasy and have tried to encourage them to read some of the finer writers in the field. It's my hope that readers who aren't sci-fi fans would never open the covers of the Lensman books. They would be permanently poisoned.
Inspired a whole plethora of imitators in radio, film, books and comics!.......2005-09-19
The Lensmen stories were full of many firsts. It was the first true space opera. It was the first sci-fi "epic". And of course, the Lensmen were the first true "superheroes", in classic, altruistic "comic book" sense.
So, you'll find much that you recognize here because you've already seen it from derivative sources. Just remember that THIS ONE is the original and the others are the ones inspired by it.
The Space Patrol of old-time radio, George Lucas' Jedi Knights, DC Comics' universe-protecting Green Lantern Corps, and many, many others all owe a huge debt to these excellent, pulpy reads.
The Story Continues..........2005-03-24
When Fantasy Press made the deal to publish the four books of the Lensman series, they added two books to the original plan for four from the stories that were published in `Astounding Science Fiction' between September of 1937 and February of 1948. The first was "Triplanetary", which came first in the overall series, and was a rather uneven book, with new material set mostly in the past, and a previously published story which was rewritten to fit into the Lensman universe. The second was this book, which bridges the period between "Triplanetary" and the original Lensman stories. In 2001 this was nominated for the Retro Hugo for the year 1950.
In the first half of "First Lensman", we get the origin of the Lensmen and the Galactic Patrol. Concern over rampant crime and corruption leads Virgil Samms to come up with the Galactic Patrol and to search for a symbol which cannot be duplicated or imitated. When an unusual character sends him to Arisa, he is presented with the Lens, which would become the symbol, and a key part to the remaining Lensman stories. Virgil Samms becomes the First Lensman, and he selects others who will be brought into the service and given Lenses.
The second part of the book is concerned with the battle for control of the government (i.e. the North American presidency) between the Galactic Patrol and the criminal elements who currently control the government. The criminals are also building a fleet to combat and destroy the Galactic Patrol, but the Galactic Patrol also has some tricks to play. I found this book overall to be better than "Triplanetary", although it does bog down a bit in the election manipulations in the second half of the book. I look forward to moving on to the original stories as conceived by Dr. Edward E. Smith.
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FIRST LENSMAN
E.E. DOC SMITH
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First Lensman
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In the not too distance future, while fleets of commercial space ships travel between the planets of numerous solar systems, a traveler named Virgil Samms visits the planet Arisia. There he becomes the first wearer of the Lens, the almost-living symbol of the forces of law and order. As the first Lensman, Samms helps to form the Galactic Patrol, a battalion of Lensmen who are larger than life heroes. These solders are the best of the best, with incredible skills, stealth, and drive. They are dedicated and incorruptible fighters who are willing to die to protect the universe from the most horrific threat it has ever known. Read by Reed McColm. 10 CD's 11 Hrs.
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- Interstellar "space opera" by the man who invented the genre
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First Lensman
E.E. "Doc" Smith
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Interstellar "space opera" by the man who invented the genre.......1998-09-23
This is the second book in the Lensman series, about a group of people--the "Lensmen" who are entrusted with the safety of the galaxy. They fight pirates! They fight alien species! They bring peace to all the galaxy... This is a very old story and more modern readers may not appreciate the simpler style of the early years of science fiction, but to any afficionado, this is a must read. It covers the beginnings of the Galactic Patrol and is STUFFED with action, politics, science and (naturally enough) love. Get it.
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First Lensman (Lensman Saga)
E. E. "Doc" Smith
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A close-up look at the lives of three children who saw Mary
The faith of millions has been energized by the now-famous events at Fatima, a tiny Portuguese village where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared repeatedly to three young shepherds with a message for the whole world. In these apparitions of 1917, approved by the Catholic Church in 1930 as "worthy of belief," Jesus' mother prophesied the end of Word War I, the coming of World War II, the global spread of Communism, and much more. During her last visit to Fatima, the celebrated "miracle of the sun"--a spectacular atmospheric phenomenon--occurred in the presence of more than 70,000 astonished witnesses.
The beatification of two of the Portuguese visionaries in 2000 has stirred new interest in the message of Fatima. In response to this worldwide hunger to know more about what happened there, Italian journalists Renzo and Roberto Allegri present the intriguing story behind the miracles--an inside look at the everyday lives of the shepherd children, their families, and their village.
The authors take us with them on their recent visit to the sites where the startling occurrences took place. There, they interview close relatives of the visionaries whose familiarity with the people and events of Fatima provides insights no one else could offer.
With the intimacy of a personal diary and the warmth of a family album, Fatima: The Story Behind the Miracles will give you a revealing glimpse into the faith and courage of young saints-in-the-making.
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Everyone Should Read this Book.......2006-12-16
I was drawn to this book because as a convert to Catholicism, Mary is new to me as a religious figure in the foreground. This was a book that dealt with not only a Marian apparition, but one that happened in the time of relatively more modern media.
It is absolutely an amazing story, with the final miracle being witnessed by thousands and recounted in Portaguese newspapers. The story is retold by a blood relative of one of the children.
If there is one criticism of the book, I would say it is the authors' over reliance on their one source. He is an incredible source, no question, but they limit themselves a little bit by not bring in additional sources more often.
Very interesting..........2006-11-17
I found this book very interesting. I have been aware of Fatima since I was a teengager (now 49). I read other books about the story. This book had some additional information...of a rather spiritual nature about the kids that I found very intersting and thought provoking.
I don't know why the other reviewer didn't like the book...I found it very good.
The story out of the History.......2006-06-16
Yes, we can deal with Fatima events from two ways: 1) by faith and assuming that the official version of this kind of books, made by foreigners without factual basis or 2) in historical grounds searching to look on the original documents and analyse them outside the cultural interpretation of the marian apparitions kind. This is the great problem of almost books on Fatima: they are more "fatimists" than Fatima itself and use the imagination without control in a fundamentalist quest that is blind to the true documents reality.
When the faith lead the writer we can do anything but see all these
approaches as a story that is out of History.
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