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10 Obras 188 Miembros 12 Reseñas

Series

Obras de Paul Clayton

Calling Crow (1995) 40 copias
Crossing Over (2018) 12 copias
Flight of the Crow (1996) 5 copias
In the Shape of a Man (2013) 5 copias
Strange Worlds (2012) 5 copias
Talk to a Real, Live Girl (2019) 4 copias
Calling Crow Nation (1999) 3 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1948-07-21
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugares de residencia
California, USA

Miembros

Reseñas

Very interesting. Written as a story of people who were supposedly a part of the party that went to America on ships put together by Walter Raleigh. There was the Governor John White, his daughter Eleanor and husband Annanias Dare. It told of the hardships they bore from lack of food, troubles with the Powhatan indians, the help they received from the Croatoans and the decline of the soldiers sent to along to protect them.
 
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bentstoker | 5 reseñas más. | Jan 26, 2024 |
I was given a free copy of "Crossing Over" in exchange for an honest review. This story grabs at your heartstrings...Mike and his family represent an average family as they attempt to flee the civil unrest within the United States as another internal war begins; they could be any of us. The author does an excellent job of depicting the hardships, sacrifice, and depression suffered by those who just want to survive and escape the madness of war and their waiting weeks on end at the border with Canada. Like in an apocalypse, bands of roving gangs and officials in high places want all that you have, and failure to comply could easily result in death - even by your own hands. The author summed it all up in just 80 pages. Mike's family dilemma is not solved by the end of the story leaving readers to surmise how it might end...the money is almost gone and they're at the end of their rope. I looked for a continuation and was disappointed in not finding one.… (más)
 
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JPodlaski | Jan 1, 2019 |
I read [Roanoke] by Angela Elwell Hunt and [White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke] by Paul Clayton back to back.

I enjoyed both of these books about the lost colony of Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina. The Hunt book was written from a Christian perspective, which I thought resulted in a story that was more accurate for that event at that time in history. The Clayton book did not paint the picture quite as well, but provided different viewpoints as to the possibilities of what happened.

Both of these books were faithful to the dates, people and events which had been recorded. From the list of passengers, each author fashioned stories for their major characters. Hunt’s Thomas was a minister of the gospel. I thought this character was the weakest part of her story, with the workings of his mind too repetitious, and I thought, unlikely. Clayton’s Thomas was an indentured servant, turned soldier, and seemed more believable. Clayton’s minister did not.

Both faithfully rendered the setting of Roanoke Island and the beginning of the settlement there, as Governor White has described it well upon his return to England to procure more supplies. The story of his trials in trying to get ships to return, of Raleigh’s unhelpfulness, of the queen’s denial of ships due to the increase in aggression of Spanish ships in the waters, and English ships needed for protection and combat. Of the false starts when the captains of the ships he finally received continually broke off their course to chase Spanish ships for treasure. Of his frustration in not being able to get back to the settlers - one his daughter, one his new granddaughter born on Roanoke just before he had to leave. Both of the author’s tellings of these events rang true.

Their imaginings differed greatly about what might have occurred on the island between White’s leaving and finally being able to return years later. Although he was able to debark to the island, his search there yielded no colonists. Because of the weather, White was not able to be taken to the mainland, and was returned to England never knowing what may have become of his people.

Though I had some quibbles with both, the possibilities made for fascinating reads, both of them.
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countrylife | 5 reseñas más. | Feb 3, 2017 |
Great Story. Its view of the world is stark and disturbing reality.

Van Ripplewink is a normal high school boy from the late 1960 who lives in a middleclass white neighborhood in Philadelphia, that is, until an accident occurs that outs him into a coma for forty-eight years. Awaking, Van is mystified. He knows that the neighborhood is not the one he left; the area has now become an exclusively black neighborhood and the whole world seems divided along racial lines. There is whole new social dynamic based on youth gangs and crime. His parents, his friends and everyone he knows is gone; his school-closed.

Still, Van makes friends among homeless people he meets, and with educated black residents like Charles and his Niece, Mignon. He also makes friends of a sort with a black wannabe street gang member who is more interested in discrediting Van’s attention to Mignon, than being a friend. Van cannot understand the animosity between the black youth of Philadelphia and the police, and the bias, and blatant disregard for right and wrong coupled with the situation ethics displayed by his student newspaper editor.

Eventually, the interracial tensions to irrational violence fueled by media bias and outside agitators, and as always in these circumstances, many innocent people are made victims.

Van Ripplewink is a book of complex characters who are struggling to exist in a world gone crazy. Van struggles to make sense of it, Mignon struggles to stay on the legitimate, legally acceptable side of it, Charles is concerned first with keeping Mignon safe and then Van as well. Chris is struggling to exist between his lust for Mignon and her pull to legitimacy, and his affinity for the street life and the anger he has adopted from the other street bullies.

Van Ripplewink is a good read for anyone interested in stories about social dynamics and is a fascinating look into what the world has become in less than fifty years. The story is good; the view of the world from its perspective is stark and disturbing reality. Clabe
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CPolk625 | Aug 26, 2016 |

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Obras
10
Miembros
188
Popularidad
#115,783
Valoración
½ 3.3
Reseñas
12
ISBNs
44
Idiomas
1

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