Nod
- Brand: Unbranded
Description
It isn't a difficult read and it isn't that long, I read most of it in one go, but then I put it down and could not bring myself to pick it up and finish it for another month.
Other than an oddly out-of-place reference to Harry Potter that honestly feels beyond contrived and a few dropped names later on, that's it. Whoever indeed forsakes God, who abandons understanding, whose thinking is continually 'in the land of Nod' dwells there today also, that is, that person remains in wicked unsettlement of heart and in commotion of mind. An extraordinary book, King of Nod is part spook story, part Southern Gothic, and part noir, cloaked in the language of lush imagery and fed on social consciousness. Your eyes look like they're held open with toothpicks; your mind replays the day in a neverending loop; you feel worn down like a car tire that’s never been changed.
Barnes employs this brilliant idea to explore the nature of perception, redemption, and personal and social catastrophe. For his article just google “Ukhat, Eabani, Sadu, Morris Jastrow,” and his article will appear on Google. Some storytellers may find this book wonderfully useful and want to use the deeper details to flesh out their game’s stories or bring further life to the Sabbat vampires who follow the literal word of the book.
Otherwise, I didn’t really like the MC, and I didn’t like how his girlfriend was portrayed/how he viewed her at times. Their close bond pre the end of the world balances on the edge of ending before falling over the void into nothingness. Barnes tries to cram this book so full of Memorable, Quoteable Lines that absolutely nothing sticks. The author didn't know that a year after writing these things his life would take a turn that would throw those issues into such sharp focus.The Chronicle of Caine: Outlining the events of Caine's exile, through to the great flood of the Bible. The writing is sublime in places, funny in its social observations, and yet strong enough to stand up to many other literary books that frowned upon this type of genre.
The Land of Nod ( Hebrew: אֶרֶץ־נוֹד– ʾereṣ-Nōḏ) is a place mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located "on the east of Eden" ( qiḏmaṯ-ʿḖḏen), where Cain was exiled by God after Cain had murdered his brother Abel. A lullaby should lull, and the sense of a safe, solid adult world around the child is not to be despised.In summary, Nod is a recast of the Sumerian EDIN, Gilgamesh has been recast as Cain, the city of Enoch is a recast of Sumerian Unug/Unuk. Meaning the ensuing half-a-chapter about how she and the protagonist had first met and what they were like together and blah blah blah was utterly pointless. Imagine that it’s not that you don’t need sleep—you do need sleep, you desperately do—and you long for sleep more than you’ve ever wanted anything in your life. For young Boo Taylor it’s a land of lush salt marshes and sun-soaked beaches, rich in history and folklore—yet steeped in superstition and hiding a terrifying secret. Slowly days turn into a week and longer, the modern world as we know it breaks down into anarchy as sleep deprived people become ill, depressed, suicidal, violent and wiling to fight the lucky few that can still sleep.
- Fruugo ID: 258392218-563234582
- EAN: 764486781913
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