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Loading... Black (The Circle Trilogy, Book 1) (The Books of History Chronicles)by Ted DekkerSeries: Circle Trilogy (Book 1), The Books of History Chronicles (Circle Trilogy, Book 1)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  crazybatcow | Aug 25, 2009 |  I did not like this book. It was really hard to get into no matter how hard i tried. The plot is ridiculous, the charachters very stale, no development for them whatsoever. I might try some of his thrillers, but as for this trilogy, wont be reading them. (  ) kagan | Jul 15, 2009 | “I liked the concept of this book. Tom goes to sleep in one world and lives in another while he sleeps. The fantasy world is imaginitive and interesting. However, I just couldn't get into the characters, except for Rachelle, who I absolutely hated. And I think she's a character that you're supposed to like. The allegorical components of this story were a little heavily applied for my taste, but otherwise, it's a pretty good book. (  ) vanedow | Apr 10, 2009 | First part of a trilogy set in two worlds, both facing disaster. Cliffhanger ending. Looking forward to reading part two... (  ) cbinstead | Sep 5, 2008 | Freaky and good. Great way to overlap the two stories! (  ) mattp340 | Aug 5, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0849917905, Hardcover)Fleeing assailants through alleyways in Denver late one night, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of an industrial building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head and his world goes black. Now Thomas wakes from a deep sleep, remembering the vivid dream he just had of being chased. Incredibly real. His head is even bleeding – but he's fallen on a rock. He's in a green forest, waiting to meet Rachelle, the woman he's falling madly in love with. That night, Thomas tumbles into bed and falls into a fitful sleep. He dreams. But here comes the real mind bender. Every time Thomas falls asleep in one reality, he awakes in the other. He truly no longer knows which reality is real. Each reality has dramatic impact on the other, each proves to be real, each presents huge stakes, and the fate of each will depend on one man: Thomas Hunter. This groundbreaking trilogy will be the fiction publishing event of 2004. Black is unleashed in February, followed by Red this May, and concluding with White in September 2004. Each new Dekker book has surpassed the prior one...but never before has he created such an unforgettable multi-layered epic as Black, Red, and White. (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:56:39 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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There are 2 "realities" in the story - the modern day "realistic" one is actually well-done and quite interesting. The fantasy world is a bit too... err... poetically Christian? In the "realistic" world, Thomas Hunter is being shot at, but then when he sleeps and pops into the "fantasy" world, there is page after page after page of "The Great Romance".
This is the part that bothered me the most. Of course, it is Christian fiction so there is lots of God and feel-good-ness abounding throughout the story, but.... the whole "Great Romance" part of the story feels like the author was trying to pretend he was writing as a (bad) female romance novelist - "oh woo her Thomas!" "Oh, fight imaginary monsters to protect her Thomas!"
GAG!!! This foray into a bad imitation of chick lit romance ruined what was otherwise a very decent and interesting story. I won't read the rest in the series - it's just not good enough to waste time on. (