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Title: Black : by Ted Dekker ISBN: 0-8499-1790-5 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 11 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (45 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A New Era for fiction
Comment: The first thought on your mind when you read my heading is that I'm overstating the case, as so many reviews tend to do. But this new novel by Ted Dekker honestly does signal a new era in fiction. Never have I read a novel so riviting and so meaningful, which spanned so many ideas and crossed so many genres as Black.
And it worked. Right down to the last page it absolutely worked.
Thomas Hunter is a struggling novelist who is thrown into a dream world that he mistakes for the real world. Unless of course, his dream world IS the real world and the one he assumed was real is really the dream world. Using this device, Black takes the reader on a roller coaster ride in parallel realities in which Hunter is faced with the potential destruction of both worlds due to his own unwitting choices. The twists and turns work into a beautiful symphony of meaning which climaxes with a cliff hanger.
The story is complex and engaging. This is my second Dekker novel, the first being "Three." I don't ordinarily post reviews, but this one demands it. Fantastic book! Very different from Three, but ultimately far more satisfying.
Thank God the next installment, RED, is due out May rather than the typical year wait.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dekker takes us to new levels.
Comment: I have read all of Mr. Dekkers books and this one took me into a new level of reading. Black taunts us with questins about living in reality or a dream world or both. It leaves the reader feeling unfamiliar in a very familiar place. The possibilities exceed the readers imagination. Mr. Dekker let's your imagination and experiences lead you through this book. Every reader will read a different story and have a different ending.
At first I was amused by the "fuzzy bats", however they quickly became life like with personalities and purpose. The fluid relationships were interwoven so delicately you too will wonder which is reality and which is a dream. I hope that all readers will dive into the water and experience the ultimate. I can't help but believe that if Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare or Ernest Hemmingway were alive today they would be avid Dekker fans. I can't wait for his next book.....
Rating: 5
Summary: I don't believe in reincarnation, but...
Comment: ...Mr. Dekker really seems like a modern-day C.S. Lewis. Do you remember the Narnia series? Or the sci-fi trilogy? (Out of a Silent Planet, et. al.) With Black, Mr. Dekker has revisited the adventure/allegory genre with resounding success. The characters are convincing, the action is page-turning, and the plot hooks addicting. Add some truly lyrical writing and the ultimate trump card of deeper meanings (which may be lost on the typical Christian reader) and you have a bona fide masterpiece.
Do not be put off by the fact that this book is marketed as Christian fiction. It does not suffer the same malady as the recent Left Behind drivel or the rampant "Prairie Fiction" so common to the market (namely, horrific writing). Dekker's work ranks up with the very best and any comparisons to C.S. Lewis or George MacDonald are fully justified.
Ultimately, Black is an amazing treatise on the nature of good and evil. It will make you think. Most importantly, it will keep you turning the pages. Highly recommended!
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Title: Three by Ted Dekker ISBN: 0849943728 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 05 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Blink : by Ted Dekker ISBN: 084994371X Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 08 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Red : by Ted Dekker ISBN: 0849917913 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 09 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: When Heaven Weeps - A Novel - by Ted Dekker ISBN: 0849942918 Publisher: Word Publishing Pub. Date: 28 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Thunder of Heaven by Ted Dekker ISBN: 0849942926 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 22 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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