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William Gladstone (2) (1949–2023)

Auteur de The Twelve

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I found this book to be a difficult book to get into, and while it was okay, it is not a book that impressed enough to remember much about it. Relying heavily on contrivance and synchronicity to hold the story together, it was an interesting premise, poorly delivered. I think this is the kind of book you will either really enjoy, or have very little time for, depending onyour theosophical points of view.
 
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cedargrove | 5 autres critiques | Jun 24, 2017 |
You have to accept this book as a work of fiction, with not too much incorporation of reality, not because it is past December 21st 2012 and the events at the end have yet to come to being, but because it's more enjoyable if you sit back and don't criticize. If you highlight every aspect of this book that is unbelievable or seems untrue, then you'll have a lot of yellow and no pleasure by the end. This book isn't about perfection, it's about being laid back, about doing what you feel is right in your heart and jumping in to something because you think it's the right thing to do and you have faith in it.

There were a lot of characters to meet in this book and there were a lot of times when, even in a laid back state of mind, you had to think, "yeah, right" because you knew whatever it was would never happen so easily in reality, but the story of someone meeting others, the hope involved, is worth pushing through all of that doubt and disbelief. The characters might not have had the most depth in them, the locations might not have been descriptive, but it's the journey that is important and that, I think, was written well.
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mirrani | 5 autres critiques | Jan 13, 2013 |
At fifteen Max has a near death experience where he sees the names of twelve people. He doesn't know them and as life goes on he forgets about them. As the years go by Max starts to meet the twelve until finally in the year 2012 it is discovered that they hold the key to whether or not the world continues on 12-21-12.

I enjoyed this book for what it was....fiction. I enjoyed how Max through chance meetings discovers the twelve. I think the ending could have been a bit more dramatic but all in all a good read.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Draak | 5 autres critiques | Jan 4, 2012 |
If a Jack Chick Bible tract and a Hallmark card had a baby, it would be this book.

The cover features a majestic view of a stone calendar above ancient ruins embellished with embossed lettering in a clear, easy to read font. Past that, the book goes downhill quickly.

The main character, Max, is a wunderkind with access to worldwide travel and horrible luck in women. He bounces from locale to locale, meeting several of the Twelve in rather rapid succession, experiences woeful bad luck, then meets the remainder of the Twelve. Along the way, Max's life mirrors a number of the author's life events (encapsulated at the inside back cover) and culminates in an epic event where "Nothing will change, and yet everything will change."

If you like life-affirming one dimensional characters, brief descriptions of foreign locales and improbable details like Max reading 1000+ issues of National Geographic magazine in 4 weeks time in 1973's Westport, CT (presumably from their library, founded 2 years before Nat Geo started) then this is the book for you.
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Œuvres
11
Membres
179
Évaluation
½ 2.5
Critiques
6
ISBN
59
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6

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