McCarthy, Twelve Hawks ... Pynchon, Salinger ... the usual suspects

[Bekah]

At 11:13 PM +1000 8/6/05, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
>This article seems to have been reprinted just about everywhere over 
>the past couple of weeks:
>
>http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/detail.asp?onNews=&GRP=H&id=65705
>
>It's not really either a news report or a review - essentially it's 
>a marketing strategy.


I'll tell you what,  it suckered me in and I listened to that 
worthless piece of drivel on a audible (iPod) book.   The author does 
this little intro so it's like the Da Vinci Code but then sends out a 
disclaimer  about it being a work of fiction.  (In that respect this 
book is nowhere (!) near as good (oh my god) as TDC,  which was 
pretty worthless.)

The Traveler is a combination of The DaVinci Code (the templar 
connection),   Matrix (the technology grid and "living off the 
grid"),  Star Wars (the little light swords),  Snow Crash (big 
business?), and the Celestine Prophesy (new age spiritual stuff) 
(puke)  throw in some dimension (not time) travel.   And j ust for 
good measure,  Hawks adds a rebellious  little cult out on the desert.

It's going to be a trilogy (oh spare me) with  Good vs Evil (The 
Highlander series through dimensions?).  A couple of the main 
characters are called Michael and Gabriel. (arch angels? --- oh spare 
me).   But I see a movie here;  there's lots of good visual violence 
including a female warrior named  Mia.

I suspect Trevanian or a wannabe.

Bekah
don't say you weren't warned.