Kevin's Watch

You, like Obi-Wan Kenobi, are a big fat liar.

aTOMiC wrote:By the way, how did you end up reading the book?
In any case you NAILED the review.

I haven't done it, but it looks like lulu allows you to download it for free?

Which is further proof I didn't write it, because I give nothing away for free!

Oops.

Nevermind.

Looks like the price went up by $2 and the download option has disappeared since I went to the site earlier.

It wasn't worth the original price! Damn inflation!!

dANdeLION wrote:It wasn't worth the original price! Damn inflation!!

i have started the process btw. i expect kafka, king, kennebunkport at the least.

I'll give it a read!

iamarobot wrote:I'll give it a read!

www.lulu.com/content/1830971

I have modified the book site so that you can download it free of charge.
Enjoy

you must read this book!

ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aTOMiC wrote:

Cail wrote:I laughed. I cried. It's better than Cats.

Yay! We have another quote for the back cover of the book.

Thanks Cail!!!!!

By the way, how did you end up reading the book?
In any case you NAILED the review.
That's exactly how I felt when I read it.

Its true. I didn't write a word of it. Dan did it all.

Why bother reading a book you didn't write?

Some early local reviews:

Land O'Lakes Daily Herald: "Cummins and Southard* prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the golden age of publishing; literally anything makes it to print nowadays!"

Venice Post: "This book is a major victory for the illiterate."

Tampa Bay Journal: "Amazing book. We honestly didn't know!"

* that was obviously an error on their part; all I did was write a dedication and make the cover and map. I didn't write the bloody book!

FYI. Regarding the book I didn't write. I just had to upload a revision. I've re paginated the format and added one extra chapter.
Don't miss out on this new and improved version of the story I didn't write.

BTW dAN. Judging by the reviews I'm glad to see the Tampa Bay area clearly understands what it is we've created here.

I'm on page 52 and I can't put it down.

Which is really awkward as I'm reading it on my desktop terminal at work, and people keep asking me why I'm holding my computer. It's going to be an issue when I try to take it with me for my morning constitutional.

Too bad you're not paper trained, Cail. My suggestion is for you to print the entire book out on the company printer, one-sided, of course. Then, when you finish the book, flush it downs the toilet.

I'd rather flush the terminal.

To each his own.

I'd share, but I think it'd be awkward with a group in the commode.

Thanks to the film The Sixth Sense, consumers of all fictional media; be it TV, films, or books, have come to expect a plot twist at the climax of the story. Some, like the aforementioned film, become the stuff of legends; a part of the shared social lexicon. Others are doomed to be pedestrian copycats; pale imitations of the truly creative.

The Flower of Doom, a new short novel from Thomas Cummins and Danny Southard is firmly in the former group. It is, of course, not surprising that there's a plot twist (and I won't dare spoil it for the uninitiated). What is shocking is how well the twist is integrated into the narrative. When it comes, it is completely unexpected, yet seamlessly works with the story (unlike, say The Village).

Without giving away the secret, I can say that the cast of characters is large but well fleshed-out (especially the marvelously realized Larry Pernish), the locations are breathtakingly drawn, and the scope of the story can only be described as epic.

Like The Sixth Sense, I found myself starting the journey again the second I finished it, breathlessly looking for clues to the devious twist. Repeated readings do not diminish the impact of the story in the least.

And I think that's the highest praise you can give a book. No twist here, I highly recommend the engaging The Flower of Doom.