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Slow Boat To Purgatory, Book One (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Vernon Baker (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
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Praise for the first installment of this epic series:

"Vernon Baker lands a K.O. on his first try. Slow Boat will answer questions you didn't know you had about Angels and Demons, Heaven and Hell and the realm of the Boatman in between." David Beem, Author of Abyss of Chaos

"The series has a lot of potential and I can see it becoming a hit with fans of Dan Brown.." Book Monster Reviews

"It takes a very brave - some might say reckless - novelist to attempt a story of such magnitude as this - giving life to Good and Evil in an eternal battle for our souls. Vernon Baker has done quite an impressive job at it in this riveting epic tale spanning almost a thousand years." Pete Morin, author of Diary of a Small Fish

Slow Boat To Purgatory...

Gaspar De Rouse, a Templar Knight, a man murdered by his brothers for the secret he possessed, resurrected and made immortal. Given a second chance at redemption he has walked the earth for over seven-hundred years.

Dominicus Bureau, a renegade priest, torn between his vows and the secret he pursues, a secret protected by an immortal. He carries a silenced pistol and uses it. Often.

Alex Donovan, a modern day warrior thrust into an ages old war, a war between good and evil, heaven and hell. Armed with an ancient chronicle of the life of Gaspar, Alex searches for the immortal and perhaps his own destiny.

All three men, passengers on a Slow Boat To Purgatory.

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L'autore

Husband and father, voracious reader and entrepreneur, Vernon finally found the courage to put soul to paper. Slow Boat To Purgatory is his first novel. He lives with his wife and children on the coast of Maine and in the panhandle of Florida. Occasionally, when the need arises, he travels to Venice to see an old friend...a very old friend.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005CX3ZU2
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 743 KB
  • Utilizzo simultaneo di dispositivi ‏ : ‎ illimitato
  • Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
  • Miglioramenti tipografici ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 302 pagine
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
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Lorraine Versini
5,0 su 5 stelle What a fantastic first part !
Recensito in Italia il 25 dicembre 2011
Just finished the book about 10 minutes ago. Wow. For a first novel, this is an absolutely fantastic read !

Vernon obviously has a way with words, from the beautiful prologue to the amazing storytelling, words which do not fail to completely and easily immerse you into the mesmerising world of Gaspar de Rouse.

The whole book is cleverly written, moving between the contemporary plot and the story of the diary without ever confusing the reader, and moving the spotlight from one character to another all the while setting the foundations for what sounds like a very suspenseful plot in the upcoming books.

A thoroughly recommended read, now I have to hope that the next book is going to be released soon :)
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felina
5,0 su 5 stelle Really gripping!
Recensito in India il 19 maggio 2017
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This is a rare book. Really imaginative story told well. I could not put the book down and it was playing in my mind during work! Gripping to say the least. Also well written - no jarring grammatical or spelling mistakes. A smooth read.
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Daniel J. Weber
3,0 su 5 stelle Purgatory: it's only one slow boat away
Recensito in Canada il 15 gennaio 2014
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Originally posted at http://digerbop.ca/2014/01/slow-boat-to-purgatory-by-vernon-baker/

Mature-content Rating: PG (Coarse language and mature themes)

Purgatory: that mythical place between Heaven and Hell, a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth, a place where people pay for their sins in hopes of gaining entry to Heaven. At least, that's how most people think of it. To Vernon Baker is is a great place to tell a story.

The Good:

Slow Boat to Purgatory is the story of a man reading a story. Doesn't that make you want to buy it? No really, it should. The reader has a unique opportunity to learn about the person behind the story, see their life as it plays out, and watch them escape into the pages. The story jumps between this reader's point of view, and the telling of his life, into the story he is reading. The change is voice and point of view add flavour as the pages unfold, keeping the reader enraptured by what Baker has to say.

Not only does this keep things fresh, but it adds suspense to the telling. The reader finds out what is happening in snippets, and just when things are picking up, we are launched from the world being read back into reality, left asking, "what happens next! Why is the sad cebu sad?"

Reader engagement is kept until the very end. As the final pages are turned, curling under the weight of suspense, just enough questions are answers to tie things together, but enough is left in play to provide for future books.

The Bad:

Because of the nature of the telling, there is a fair amount of back-story. I usually love back-story. I love how it adds flavour to a tale, rounds out the characters, makes the book beautiful. Alas, this is not the case in Slow Boat to Purgatory. Much of the back-story is told through long sections of passive voice which are bland and uninteresting. Unfortunately, they also add little to the actual story, thus a failure on two accounts of potential magic.

The story itself isn't bad, once it gets going. The problem, however, is that if you have a wonderful sports car, but the starter is shot, and you spend half a day grinding until it catches... the driver may lose interest. The back-story issues hit a little harder than they should because the story itself also takes far too long to progress. Pieces of the puzzle start to fit together about 50% of the way through, at which point the reader is almost ready to retire the sports car and just walk to the store. (The book store, obviously. What other type of store is there?)

Though it ends well, there are a number of elements introduced later on in the book that are simple grazed over, having no real impact on the plot. They appear to be important factors at first, but sadly are almost just thrown in for flavour, lacking substance and making the reader somewhat confused. It makes the story feel a bit disjointed.

Conclusion:

Slow Boat to Purgatory delivers a delightful tale of a man caught between the world of his book and the one he lives in. Purgatory itself is neat, but the boat there is slow. If you don't mind the wait, and enjoy some intrigue mixed into your fantasy, this book is for you.
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Johnathon K
5,0 su 5 stelle Well crafted, a good read
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 3 novembre 2013
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I am giving this five stars, although if it was a stand alone book, not the first part of a larger literary effort, I would give it four. My hesitancy for an unreserved five stars has to do with the amount of epistolary voice that, while interesting, tends to bog the book down a bit, and the fact that the volume in and of itself doesn't have a clear ending. However, as volume one, the background information given works to build a good foundation for further volumes.

What i like most about the book is the author's wordsmithing. He is an excellent writer, able to convey clear ideas with all the nuances associated with real life. Several times, I had to stop and just admire the words themselves.

Characterization was excellent throughout the book. Each character had a unique voice, and I was drawn to all the main ones.

Editing was basically good. There were a few cases of incorrect word usage, and one chapter location was listed as different than what it actually was in the text of the chapter. Overall, though, editing wasn't much of an issue.

I enjoyed the overall flow of the story, and the plot caught my attention. I think the author's imagination has done him well in this effort.

One small point, and this may just be a pet peeve of mine, is that many authors seem to feel that to give a character a tough-guy image, he has to be an ex-Navy SEAL. I think I've read four books this year alone where this was the case. I think this is overdone. If it really is necessary, though, I would hope the author would actually research the SEALs. There is no such thing as a Navy "Seal," as the service is referred to in this book, unless one counts the couple that are trained in San Diego along with sea lions and dolphins to detect mines and retrieve things. The word SEAL is an acronym for Sea, Air, and Land Teams. It may seem like a small thing, but it jars me when reading and leaves me to wonder if any research was done at all.

Despite this small point, this really is an excellent effort. I look forward to reading the next volume.
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Ignite
5,0 su 5 stelle Rich and exciting
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 21 gennaio 2013
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I have just finished this Slow Boat to Purgatory (Book 1) and rushed to check that Book 2 is available. I will certainly be reading this before too long. The story, telling as it does of an immortal Knight Templar, a secret Order of the Broken Cross who search for him and Alex, the ex-serviceman who has been left details of a 'secret' by his grandfather, invites comparison with Dan Brown's books. I think it's a pity to try to classify Slow Boat in that manner as it's complex and has its own structure and cast of 'celestial beings'. The story is rich with demonology, a view of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory which harks back to medieval times and 'good' and 'fallen' angels who are barely distinguishable.

I enjoyed the story, its pace, its easy movement from modern times to the thirteenth century and its cast of sometimes strange beings. It was easy to like Gaspar, the Templar, easy to dislike the Order, who had fingers in pies everywhere, yet even when they met their doom I felt a little sad for them. This is the first of Vernon Baker's books I have read and I enjoyed it thoroughly. He creates a frightening 'other world' populated by powerful unseen creatures and I'm eager to immerse myself in there a second time!
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Rosa
5,0 su 5 stelle Spellbinding
Recensito in Australia il 7 dicembre 2015
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Anyone interested in stories of the Templars is going to enjoy this book, riveting stuff, off to get book 2.
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