Nombre legal: Wetzel, Peter J.
Fecha de nacimiento: 1948
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugar de nacimiento: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Lugares de residencia: Wilmington, Delaware, USA
State College, PA, USA
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Eldersburg, MD, USA
Educación: BS Penn State, MS & PhD Colorado State University
Ocupaciones: Research Earth Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, now retired
Premios y honores: A.J. Grucci Memorial Award (poetry) - cash prize, publication
Biografía breve: Auler Ivis is a pen name. In real life, Ivis is a retired NASA scientist and award-winning poet. Born in Wisconsin, he currently spends his days writing from his Maryland loft, and he plans to donate fifty percent of the royalties from this book to the Unitarian Universalist Church. He is a third generation American, of ethnic North German descent (Mecklenburg Vorpommern).

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Twilight's Ashes: As Heaven Fades: Book 1 por Auler Ivis

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I really looked forward to reading this book. Don't get me wrong, I was so excited that I won this book. Just couldn't get into it. First the book took place 630,000 years in the future, really couldn't place the earth that far. The story line was pretty good, but the appendixes were very lengthy. As far as the narratives, I do believe they should have been in the beginning of the chapter or the end of it, or maybe in chapters by themselves.

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texas659 | 7 reseñas más. | Mar 10, 2011 |

Twilight's Ashes: As Heaven Fades: Book 1 por Auler Ivis

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This was one book that took me a lot of time to get through. I liked the actual story but it was way to wordy and seemed to wander too much in the narrative. While I think I’m a pretty smart guy I found it disturbing that I had to break out the dictionary way to many times.

To sum this up I think that a good story is in this book somewhere however it needs some reworking to let it shine. The author definitely shows some talent but could be better served with a different editor.

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copefiend2 | 7 reseñas más. | Feb 19, 2011 |

Twilight's Ashes: As Heaven Fades: Book 1 por Auler Ivis

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Twilight Ashes was not quite my type of book. The book was written, with multiple voices telling the story and left me confused. I had a hard time trying to figure who was talking about what and why. I also felt as if the story was being told backwards, with the end first and the rest of the book telling us the journey the characters took to get there. Of course, that may have been the authors intent, or my misinterpretation of the story. That confsion is the problem.

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ToniWI | 7 reseñas más. | Feb 18, 2011 |

Twilight's Ashes por Auler Ivis

I really wanted to enjoy this book. In a way, I did. Auler Ivis obviously loves the written word, language and philosophy. This does not read like a freshman effort. Instead, the prose is steady and refined. Mostly.

The hardest part of the book for me was Dalle and Leafhopper. I didn't like them. I didn't like how they were written, nor did I like their place in the narrative. It is these parts of the story where Ivis' prose fails. Their dialog was unnatural and forced. Their sections of the story unnecessarily jarred me from the flow of the narrative. A simply restructuring of the story eliminates the need for their passages, and allows the reader to focus on the story.

Another problem I had was how far the book was set in the future. I understand that the story is set in a post human world, but 633,029 years later is a long time to hold on to any vestiges of our modern human society. I know this seems nit picky in the overall structure of the narrative, but at the back of my mind I kept thinking how far into the future that really is for humanity. We've been around for a fraction of that time, and look how things have changed. That far in the future, would anything be recognizable?

I honestly believe there is a book in Twilight's Ashes I would enjoy. Restructuring the narrative is crucial to the success of this book. As it stands, I believe the story of Jebden could be told in a simpler, tighter style that doesn't remove the reader from the narrative. That book would be a fun and lyrical tale that still contains a good dose of philosophy for the reader to ponder.… (más)