Ebook DoG, by Matt Hlinak
The soft data indicates that you should go to the web link for downloading and afterwards save DoG, By Matt Hlinak You have actually owned guide to check out, you have presented this DoG, By Matt Hlinak It is simple as visiting the book stores, is it? After getting this brief explanation, hopefully you could download one and begin to review DoG, By Matt Hlinak This book is quite simple to review each time you have the free time.
DoG, by Matt Hlinak
Ebook DoG, by Matt Hlinak
DoG, By Matt Hlinak. In undergoing this life, lots of people constantly attempt to do as well as obtain the most effective. New understanding, encounter, lesson, and also every little thing that can boost the life will certainly be done. However, lots of people often feel confused to obtain those things. Feeling the minimal of encounter as well as resources to be far better is one of the does not have to possess. However, there is a very simple point that can be done. This is exactly what your teacher always manoeuvres you to do this one. Yeah, reading is the solution. Checking out a publication as this DoG, By Matt Hlinak as well as other references could enrich your life quality. Just how can it be?
Getting guides DoG, By Matt Hlinak now is not sort of challenging means. You could not just going with book store or library or borrowing from your good friends to read them. This is a very straightforward way to precisely obtain guide by on the internet. This on-line book DoG, By Matt Hlinak could be one of the options to accompany you when having leisure. It will not squander your time. Believe me, guide will show you brand-new point to check out. Merely invest little time to open this on the internet e-book DoG, By Matt Hlinak and also read them anywhere you are now.
Sooner you obtain guide DoG, By Matt Hlinak, quicker you can enjoy reviewing guide. It will be your count on keep downloading and install guide DoG, By Matt Hlinak in offered link. By doing this, you can truly decide that is worked in to obtain your personal e-book online. Here, be the initial to obtain guide entitled DoG, By Matt Hlinak and be the very first to recognize just how the author indicates the message and also knowledge for you.
It will believe when you are visiting choose this e-book. This impressive DoG, By Matt Hlinak publication could be reviewed entirely in specific time relying on exactly how often you open and review them. One to keep in mind is that every publication has their own production to obtain by each viewers. So, be the good viewers and also be a better individual after reviewing this e-book DoG, By Matt Hlinak
Culann Riordan was a high school English teacher with poor impulse control and a taste for liquor. He fled to Alaska before the state could yank his teaching certificate and possibly toss him in jail. He hires on as a commercial fisherman aboard the Orthrus, a dingy vessel crewed by a colorful assortment of outcasts seeking their fortune beyond the reaches of civilization. As he struggles to learn how to survive the rigors of life at sea and the abuses of the crew, he fishes a mysterious orbout of the depths of the ocean and comes into conflict with the diabolical captain of the Orthrus. If he is to live long enough to see the sunset, Culann must escape from the Captain, survive on an island in the Bering Sea populated only by a pack of feral dogs, find out how to control the orb?s destructive power, and come to grips with his sizable character flaws.
- Sales Rank: #4588022 in Books
- Published on: 2012-10-03
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .33" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 146 pages
Most helpful customer reviews
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Unique Story Line
By Ethan
Matt Hlinak
DoG
Bizarro Press
4 out of 5 stars
PROS: Very unique fictional story centering on temptation and sacrifice.
CONS: The environment is seedy and the main problem is delicate.
DoG. Turn it upside down and the reader gets a mere hint at this unique mystery. DoG is published by Bizarro Press, ISBN: 978-0615700212. The author promises a story about Culann Riordan, a high school teacher who skips town to avoid trouble and accusations of molesting one of his female students. He flees to an Alaskan fishing town where he meets up with his cousin and his new coworkers, the crew of the Orthrus. What happens next is good story telling.
The main character is believably fallible and real. There is no doubt he is seriously faulted, partly reflected in his choice to move a fishing village where the pastime is getting drunk. It does not seem like a wise choice for Culann's redemptive path to a new life. Culann is plagued by his bad decisions and realizes this a little too late for his own good.
The supporting narrative is unique. The person identified as the antagonist is only subtly revealed throughout the story. The author makes an interesting choice in presenting the climax between the main character and the protagonist at least two chapters before the conclusion. And the great thing here is that the remaining chapters develop with even more significance. It doesn't feel like unnecessary filler at the end. Often I am struck that once the final thrust of the story is done, the rest is just blather, cleaning up loose story ends. Not so in DoG. These last chapters are essential in resolving every bit of conflict built up from page one and the author does it smoothly in a way that avoids reading like the flayed ends of the narrative rope. I say, "Well done."
This is not a cut and paste horror/mystery/thriller. It's not easy for me to classify according to genre. It seemed to cover a wide swath of fiction without getting bogged down in gotcha moments or machetes behind every tree. This is a good story without being forced. It's smooth. It unfolds in a way that makes sense.
There is no way I could have predicted the story's development. Major themes include temptation, selfishness, merit and self-sacrifice. There is resolution to the main character's story, but it won't resolve in any predictable way. What you may expect for the character is not what you'll receive.
The author definitely took his time in creating a disturbing, but highly addictive story. I recommend this to any reader who might enjoy something like "Mutiny on the Bounty" but with a supernatural sort of twist.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A Slow, Careful, Well-crafted Build-up
By Pop Bop
There is an odd trick that horticulturalists can use by which they graft buds from different types of fruit trees onto a single trunk, thereby creating a single tree that bears distinctly different fruit depending on which branch you look at. I thought of that while considering this review, because "DoG" seems like just one book, when it's actually at least three different books.
Culann, a teacher accused of statutory rape, flees his cozy suburban nest and joins his cousin Frank on a tiny island off the West Coast of Alaska. Frank has gotten Culann a berth with him on a commercial fishing vessel, and Culann is going to hide out and "grow up". This tale occupies the first third of the book. It has a sort of rugged spareness and ruefulness that suits the topic, and the author's description of Culann's meeting the other crewmen, heading off to fish, and being broken in as the greenhorn sailor is funny, realistic, and self-consciously manly in a Hemingway vein. A lot of the dialogue is bawdy and clever, and there is much sly humor and subtle wit on display. Just as a boy-goes-to-Alaska-and-becomes-a-man novel this part works very well.
MAJOR SPOILERS HERE. One day the nets haul up a weird metal orb covered with a strange shifting hieroglyphic style script. The captain, who seems to have been waiting for this find, seizes the orb and directs the ship to return immediately to port. Culann steals the orb and upon landfall he and the other crewmen return to their island home, along with the orb. Within 24 hours everyone on the island is dead, as is everything else except for Culann and all of the dogs that had been kept as pets. Culann becomes like the head of the pack. This part of the book is not written as a standard thriller, but has an odd, dead, flat affect, and a sort of X-Files/Twilight Zone feeling.
At this point the insane captain shows up to demand the orb, and after a confrontation with the still strangely passive Culann, Culann ends up alone once again on the island. This frees him up, along with his dog companions, to reflect on his life, the universe and everything. This final third justifies the promise of the bizarro genre and is magical and eerie. (It should not be lost that the greatest hero of Irish Mythology is Cuchulain, also known as the "Hound of Culann". He was a great and noble warrior, and is similar to the Welsh Arthur or the Greek Achilles. Google some of this and the final part of the book is a lot more coherent and interesting.)
It's important to note that this is well written. It is tight and economical, and the author's command is sure. This is one of the few bizarro books I've read that could have benefited from being longer, since the early scenes, the fishing scenes, the death-by-orb scenes and the finale could all have been filled out without seeming padded. Authors in this genre often run on too long and overwork their themes and overstay their welcome, and a work of brevity and restraint is, at the least, refreshing.
So, if you're on the fence this book is definitely worth a look. Please note that I received a free advance ecopy of this book in exchange for a candid review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A fast read and well-written
By nfmgirl
Culann has gotten himself into a little bit of trouble, and as many have done before him, he absconds to the rugged life found in Alaska to avoid prosecution. His cousin Frank has fixed him up with a job on a fishing trawler, and a couch to sleep on. On his first trip out, he learns the captain has a habit of fishing the same area year after year, never branching out to seek out larger yields of fish. Then the crew hauls in a strange object, and everything just gets weirder from there.
Having spent his last few years as a school teacher, Culann is worked harder than ever before as a deckhand, and takes some abuse as a greenhorn who needs to prove himself.
I really enjoyed the first half of this relatively short story (I think the e-book that I received was only about 118 pages). However once Culann came back to port and everything started getting really weird, I started to find it less enjoyable. I mean, fantastical plotline aside, I found the way that people responded to be too unrealistic. People were too quick to just accept what Culann said at face value and resign themselves to their doom. ("Oh well. I'm going to mysteriously drop dead in the upcoming hours, because this criminal on the run says so. Guess I'll just resign myself to it and get drunk.")
And then in the end Culann begins to reflect on his crime and almost seems to justify his actions. In the beginning I liked him, but by the end I was pretty much over him and finding him a little repulsive.
My final word: While I wound up not being enamored by Culann or the story in general in the end (as I was in the beginning), it was still a "good" story, and exhibited some solid writing. I would recommend it if you are looking for a fast escape.
DoG, by Matt Hlinak PDF
DoG, by Matt Hlinak EPub
DoG, by Matt Hlinak Doc
DoG, by Matt Hlinak iBooks
DoG, by Matt Hlinak rtf
DoG, by Matt Hlinak Mobipocket
DoG, by Matt Hlinak Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar