There is a river that howls through a darkened forest. First it flows one way and then another. And when it untangles itself it disappears, to where, There is a river that howls through a darkened forest. First it flows one way and then another. And when it untangles itself it disappears, to where, I do not know.
The above introduction came to me while reading this book, a book that speaks of a very strange world, more strange than my very words. It is a world that I do not understand, nor do I wish to understand it. Pages upon pages describe this world even before the story begins. People commit suicide just to escape it. Death by running. Death is seen in every doorway and on the streets with bodies stripped of clothing and all other possessions. It is as if they never belonged to them in the first place. Family members take their loved one’s gold teeth to sell in the markets, to buy rotten or fake food for themselves. Eggs filled with sawdust. Then the garbage pickers take those naked bodies away along with the buckets of sewage that has been placed on the streets. Then they are into energy to light the houses. Like those who have died, I wish to escape, but I am getting somewhat drawn in, much like a moth to a flame.
What are these last things that caused the author to place these words in the title of his book? Last of Civilization? Last of your sanity? Last of your Family? Last of everything you own as it can be stolen, everything you buy to eat can be rotten.
A woman is looking for her brother. Where he is, even he does not know. When she finds him, will she even know it? She comes to this town and is subjected to a haircut to make her bald, unattractive to men. The fear is that they will rape her for her very beauty. Do men in this world really care that much as to whether a woman is beautiful or not? After this, she begins to pleasure herself. There is a reason why these acts are done in private. Some don’t wish to see or hear about it, much less read it. I decide then that this is the LAST of the book for me, and I didn’t even have to do a death run in order to leave this horrid world. I only had to close the book....more
Anyone who has ever read my list of books will know that I am not into Sci-Fi. I have read one book, The Day After Roswell, a non-fiction book, and itAnyone who has ever read my list of books will know that I am not into Sci-Fi. I have read one book, The Day After Roswell, a non-fiction book, and it was excellent.
I would not have read this book if I hadn’t stumbled onto Daniel Park’s Gold River Canyon’s Dead, a book that I didn’t realize was Sci-Fi until the very end. Daniel Parks is just a very good writer and knows how to keep a person in suspense. So, I bought this short book by him the other day and found that I couldn’t put it down, not that I am now going to start reading Sci-Fi books, because I am not, that is, not unless he writes it. Or maybe someone convinces me to read one because it is so good.
This book takes place in NM along the 104th Meridian West. It involved the humming that people hear in certain parts of NM and elsewhere in the world. For all I know a huge amount of people are developing tinnitus.
It also involves a weigh station out in NM where trucks and their drivers are disappearing soon after leaving that weigh station.
One man is curious. Chief Bigfoot. So he decides to keep an eye on the weigh station, gets caught and is told to leave. He decides to take a trek up to a mountain where he hears “the hum.” And this is where the story really gets to be entertaining. I love exploring, although I may not try to find the source of a humming sound. But this book is all uphill from here, pun intended.
Still, I liked his first book better because they were looking for a ghost town, which seems a little less dangerous and much more interesting. I do know one thing: Chief Bigfoot would have been better off in the bat cave that he found were he could continue to drink cool fresh water and kill bats in order to eat than he was by venturing out in that desert heat again.
Note: The Hum in Northern New Mexico and the strange lights on the mountain outside of Marfa, Texas are factual, as are the locations and the top secret government operations talked about in this book. Also truckers actually avoid traveling the 104th Meridian at night....more
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