Chris Mandeville

Have had this Kindle book for a while. Probably read it the "wrong" way because it might be better to just dip into sections for tips. It would have been very useful years ago when I followed wrong advice not to 'push' writer's block and subsequently didn't manage to write for years - only writing exercises at an evening class resolved that. The exercises in this book would have helped I'm sure.

As it is, I was reading it more for tips on how to get stuck in the sense of 'what happens next' as I have a couple of short stories which have languished unfinished for years. I'm not sure that it is so useful for that kind of block, but when I have time out from current writing projects, I will go back to one of those and revisit this. So I am rating it at 3 stars at the moment.… (plus d'informations)

Apocalyptic Adventure... I really liked this post-apocalyptic story because it was different from the usual mainstream apocalyptic stories but damn this son of a bitch was long!! It was like the author took every idea she ever wanted to write about it and threw it all into one book. It did have a lot of action though and kept me entertained but it seriously was like that Energizer Bunny commercial-it felt like it just kept going and going and going...
                                          
 
It took me so long to read the first half of the book, by the time I got to the second half, I forgot half the shit that happened in the first 300 pages. 
 

 
Definitely needs to be shortened & polished. If you need a book to keep you occupied for a couple of weeks this is it!… (plus d'informations)

Meh. Post apocalypse - solar flare and EM pulse sterilised the surface of the world, humanity is just about surviving in scattered enclaves living off tinned food from the Time Before. Which sort of works as a premise for a novel, but the plotting is inconsistent, and there's too much preachy overtones larded through the top as a moral message presumably. Having the saviours of humanity be a select tribe of mormon offshoots is also a bit unlikely. The end third drags horrendously before the contrived showdown finally appears.

We follow three people each from one enclave as for various reasons they have to leave. Inevitably they all end up in the same place, chasing the same goal - the possibility that viable seeds still exist.… (plus d'informations)