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Mark Teppo

Auteur van The Mongoliad: Book One

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Fotografie: Photo taken at the fabulous Magus Books in Seattle, WA.

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Werken van Mark Teppo

The Mongoliad: Book One (2012) 869 exemplaren
The Mongoliad: Book Two (2012) 406 exemplaren
The Mongoliad: Book Three (2013) 344 exemplaren
Katabasis (2013) — Auteur — 113 exemplaren
Lightbreaker (2009) 94 exemplaren
Heartland (2010) 41 exemplaren
Dreamer (2012) 25 exemplaren
Thirteen: Stories of Transformation (2015) — Redacteur — 25 exemplaren
Seer (2013) 18 exemplaren
Jumpstart Your Novel (2015) 14 exemplaren

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I guess I now know what the title theme is: Reading material for those who have pickled their brains with drugs.
 
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acb13adm | Sep 13, 2023 |
I was hoping I would really like this book, but I'm giving up on it about half way through. It's not a horrible volume. But it's not clicking with me.

First, there is the general subject matter of arcane spiritualism and its presentation as the distillation of the many and varied religions of the world. They are all seen as poor reflections of the truth as known by the narrator, street educated as he is, and his ilk. I'm not buying it. And I'm not buying the twenty-five-cent words and sentences and detailed references the guy spews non-stop.

Second, I'm half way through the book and I still don't have a real clue about who the protagonist is or why I should give a gnat's sneeze about what happens to him. He's not particularly likable. Nor does he seem particularly troubled. There are vague references to a botched ceremony or something years ago and his search for someone named Katarina. I don't get it.

Third, the subject matter addressed by the previous two paragraphs is described and ruminated and discussed ad nauseum nauseum by the protagonist and the stray police detective tagging along with him as a foil. Almost all they do is think and talk. There is bit of action in the first chapter and a little more a few chapters later. But about the only outcome of the action is that our 'hero' suffers minor setbacks in his quest and some bystanders bite the dust. Ho hum. Make something happen, already. And tell me why I should care.

All that might make it seem there is nothing to like in the book. Not true. There is some good scene setting and characterization of the area in and around Seattle and Puget Sound, including a nicely described ferry ride. The protagonist/narrator isn't all that bad to be around. The writing, while occasionally overblown, is readable and occasionally humorous.

If this is the sort of thing you like, you just might like this book. It just didn't work for me.
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zot79 | 5 andere besprekingen | Aug 20, 2023 |
This is a choose-your-own-adventure book, it is a training exercise for the Night Office, an organization that fights otherworldly and extra-dimensional monsters. This is a training exercise. In this exercise, the reader is transported to a coffee shop where they are to identify an existential threat to humanity.

You will die, maybe you will walk away. But can you survive the mission? I found the adventure fun, playing it several times to explore different paths through the book. It can be run through in about 15 minutes to complete most paths. It will still get read from time to time. Now I need to get another book in the series, this is the cheapest and smallest so I anticipate more complex stories.… (meer)
 
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Nodosaurus | Aug 1, 2023 |
I have a pet peeve about extended tarot card sequences in novels, but there's so much else going on in here that it is wholly forgiven.

For a lot of fantasy, urban especially, the pay off just isn't there, but the climactic climax of this was climaxful and unique.
 
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3Oranges | 5 andere besprekingen | Jun 24, 2023 |

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2,199
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