Devlin Scott
No Lasting Burial (The Zombie Bible 4) (Kindle serial) Progressive Review
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No Lasting Burial The Zombie Bible 4 review
Description from GoodReads:
A first-century Israeli village lies ruined after zombies devour most of the coastal community. In their grief, the villagers threw the dead into the Sea of Galilee, not suspecting that this act would poison the fish and starve the few survivors on land.
Yeshua hears their hunger. He hears the moans of the living and the dead, like screaming in his ears. Desperate to respond, he calls up the fish.
Just one thing:
The dead are called up, too.
No Lasting Burial ushers readers into a vivid and visceral re-interpretation of the Gospel of Luke and the legend of the Harrowing of Hell. The hungry dead will rise and walk, and readers may never look at these stories the same way again.
My thoughts at reaching, 22% - 2nd serial episode:
Remarkable! The first two episodes do not disappoint. Heart-wrenching and emotionally horrific, an episode of the Zombie Bible that cannot be ignored.
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Happy Coffee Day fellow readers,
I'm celebrating with a cup of Gevalia's Papua New Guinea Colibri Azul and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.
How are you enjoying this special
holiday?
Devlin
A brilliant and well-written story detailing a kept woman's descent into madness. I found this to be a remarkable “must-read” feminist work.Devlin
Brilliant, charming, witty, not at all what you'd think from a romantic comedy. Don't know what I mean? Wait until the end...poetic!Devlin
Loved this! A wonderful and intriguing adventure. It makes one wonder how much of it is truth...I would like it to be truth. I'll have to look into this.Devlin
Perhaps the finest pirate adventure ever created and a personal childhood favorite of mine.Perhaps Silver and I can persuade you to ship a copy and partake on a little treasure hunt? There is still a cache of Flint's silver bars to be found...
Devlin
Should anyone be interested, the song, "Dead Man's Chest" (also known as Fifteen Men On The Dead Man's Chest or Derelict) is a fictional sea-song, originally from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island (1883). It was expanded in a poem, titled Derelict by Young E. Allison, published in the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1891.
Stevenson found the name "Dead Man's Chest" among a list of Virgin Island names in a book by Charles Kingsley, possibly in reference to the Dead Chest Island in the British Virgin Islands. As Stevenson once said, "Treasure Island came out of Kingsley's At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies (1871); where I got the 'Dead Man's Chest' - that was the seed." That is, Stevenson saw the three words "Dead Man's Chest" in Kingsley's book among a list of names, germinating in Stevenson's mind it was the "seed", which then grew into the novel.
In Treasure Island Stevenson only wrote the chorus, leaving the remainder of the song unwritten, and to the reader's imagination:
“ "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—
...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest--
...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man%27s_Chest
Derelict by Young E. Allison
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest—
Drink and the devil had done for the rest—
The mate was fixed by the bos'n's pike,
The bos'n brained with a marlin spike,
And Cookey's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped
By fingers ten;
And there they lay,
All good dead men
Like break-o'-day in a boozing-ken—
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of the whole ship's list—
Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist!—
The skipper lay with his nob in gore
Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore—
And the scullion he was stabbed times four.
And there they lay,
And the soggy skies
Dripped all day long
In upstaring eyes—
In murk sunset and at foul sunrise—
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark—
Ten of the crew had the Murder mark—
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead,
Or a yawing hole in a battered head—
And the scuppers glut with a rotting red
And there they lay—
Aye, damn my eyes—
All lookouts clapped
On paradise—
All souls bound just contrariwise—
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.
Fifteen men of 'em good and true—
Every man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew—
There was chest on chest full of Spanish gold,
With a ton of plate in the middle hold,
And the cabins riot of stuff untold,
And they lay there,
That had took the plum,
With sightless glare
And their lips struck dumb,
While we shared all by the rule of thumb—
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
More was seen through the stern light screen—
Chartings no doubt where a woman had been!—
A flimsy shift on a bunker cot,
With a thin dirk slot through the bosom spot
And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot.
Oh was she wench…
Or some shuddering maid…?
That dared the knife—
And took the blade!
By God! she was stuff for a plucky jade—
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest—
Drink and the devil had done for the rest—
We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight
With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved 'em over and out of sight—
With a Yo-Heave-Ho!
And a fare-you-well!
And a sullen plunge
In the sullen swell,
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell!
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8601689-Derelict-by-Young_Ewing_Allison
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Devlin
This is a truly haunting, psychological thriller. The ending, is sublimely poetic.Devlin
My first time reading Kafka...I loved the experience. Brilliant stories.Metamorphosis ****
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A Country Doctor ****
In the Penal Colony *****
Devlin
The sixth book, The Ersatz Elevator, is highly fantastical but certainly entertaining. This also seems to be the book that begins to pull the series together.Devlin
This book is about ghosts. Ghosts of our past, ghosts of our future, ghosts we create, and ghosts we must suffer. Ghosts of the heart…What can we do…live with them, love with them, conquer them, nurture them, torture them, hope with them...remember them?
Emotionally, this is a very difficult book to read. Take breaks if you must or read with a friend but finish it. This is an important journey and must be taken; it doesn’t have to be taken alone.
Devlin
Once you get the hang of 'Nadsat' (a fractured adolescent slang comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang) the novel moves very well. My copy contains the final chapter (chapter seven in part three). This chapter was left out during the American publication run. As Burgess points out it is a far different novel and much better with the missing chapter included.
This is a must read 'banned' book.
Devlin
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