Erec Stebbins
Auteur van Extraordinary Retribution
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Erec Stebbins is a biomedical researcher of cancer and infectious diseases, but also a novelist with his first work being The Ragnarök Conspiracy. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Gangbare naam
- Stebbins, Erec
- Officiële naam
- Stebbins, Charles Erec
- Geboortedatum
- 1969-12-05
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
Heidelberg, Germany - Opleiding
- Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (PhD, Biochemistry 1999)
Oberlin College (BA, Physics 1992) - Korte biografie
- Erec Stebbins is a biomedical researcher who writes novels in a variety of genres, focusing on thrillers and science fiction. His work has consistently been praised for its action and thrills alongside a deeper, often philosophical angle. The Internet Review of Books dubbed him "master of the thinking reader's techno thriller".
His novels have been called "unique" and "pulse-pounding" (THE RAGNARÖK CONSPIRACY), "altogether profound, reminiscent of Bradbury and Dan Simmons’ Hyperion“ (DAUGHTER OF TIME TRILOGY), and "startlingly dark" (EXTRAORDINARY RETRIBUTION) with five star ratings in Foreword Reviews, San Francisco Book Reviews, Portland Book Review, and others.
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I won this from the Goodreads author give away. I have read this over and over again. Loving this quaint little love story. I can relate to the stone. One has no control over whom they fall in love with. Even if that someone else has changed and does not still feel the same way about you as they did in the beginning. The stone became sad but learned to be happy again. Also he kept searching for that love of his, never giving up. Thank you for writing this love story for us love sick people
Okay, this one was a little hard to get into before it took me for a ride. I think it's possible that the author is a very good storyteller that knows where it's going but leaves a lot to the mystery that draws you on. KUDOS for that. I liked the nod to prayer and God but the monk indicated otherwise. Oh well, to each his own. But the description of prayer/meditation was right on the money. Thank you.
This novella is written in a first person narrative style, with the narrator being a teenage boy. It has been written in such as manner that I felt as if I were sat there with him while he related his tale to me, along with all its asides. The boy ‘speaks’ to the reader with a deep southern or hill country accent and, as I read I could hear his voice in my head with all the twists and nuances his accent provided. I did find the way the narrative was written to be a little daunting at first, and found myself having to reread portions of it to make sure I had truly understood what my teenage story teller was trying to get across. However, this did not detract from the novella as a whole, just made it a little bit more than an easy quick read.
Because of the way in which it is written, there does not need to be any deep character developments or plots; we are just being offered a slice of this boy’s life, and all it contains, with no frills. Having said that though, as the reader progresses through the novella, they are made to actually think and re-evaluate the things they come across in their everyday lives, and also the way in which they interact with the people in their lives.
This is a hard little book to write a review on as so much that could be said about it, would just be spoiling the whole experience for readers that pick it up. It is a special little book and, if I were more familiar with the vernacular used by the narrator, I would most likely have said it was an outstanding read but, unfortunately for me, the having to backtrack over some of the narration really interrupted the flow.
This is a book I would recommend to readers from teens up to adults. The only thing they may need to be aware of is the narration style, but other than that this novella is not offensive in any way and is worth your time to read.
Originally reviewed on: http://catesbooknuthut.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/review-junk-man-erec-stebbins/
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.… (meer)
Because of the way in which it is written, there does not need to be any deep character developments or plots; we are just being offered a slice of this boy’s life, and all it contains, with no frills. Having said that though, as the reader progresses through the novella, they are made to actually think and re-evaluate the things they come across in their everyday lives, and also the way in which they interact with the people in their lives.
This is a hard little book to write a review on as so much that could be said about it, would just be spoiling the whole experience for readers that pick it up. It is a special little book and, if I were more familiar with the vernacular used by the narrator, I would most likely have said it was an outstanding read but, unfortunately for me, the having to backtrack over some of the narration really interrupted the flow.
This is a book I would recommend to readers from teens up to adults. The only thing they may need to be aware of is the narration style, but other than that this novella is not offensive in any way and is worth your time to read.
Originally reviewed on: http://catesbooknuthut.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/review-junk-man-erec-stebbins/
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.… (meer)
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- #81,618
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 22
- ISBNs
- 46
Because of the way in which it is written, there does not need to be any deep character developments or plots; we are just being offered a slice of this boy’s life, and all it contains, with no frills. Having said that though, as the reader progresses through the novella, they are made to actually think and re-evaluate the things they come across in their everyday lives, and also the way in which they interact with the people in their lives.
This is a hard little book to write a review on as so much that could be said about it, would just be spoiling the whole experience for readers that pick it up. It is a special little book and, if I were more familiar with the vernacular used by the narrator, I would most likely have said it was an outstanding read but, unfortunately for me, the having to backtrack over some of the narration really interrupted the flow.
This is a book I would recommend to readers from teens up to adults. The only thing they may need to be aware of is the narration style, but other than that this novella is not offensive in any way and is worth your time to read.
Originally reviewed on: http://catesbooknuthut.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/review-junk-man-erec-stebbins/
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.… (meer)