SHOWDOWN by Ted Dekker
Have you started reading Dekker yet? What's keeping you. This guy writes really well. His concepts are unique. There are good underlying messages. You should start with any of his books and just keep going. Now comes SHOWDOWN.
This has to be the weirdest book yet from Ted Dekker. You see there's this monestary hidden in the cliffs somewhere in the desert. There are two levels, and the lower levels are filled with tunnels occupied by these . . . OK! As Stephen King say: the hardest part of writing science fiction is opening the door. I'll keep the door closed and let Dekker open it for you.
Meanwhile there's this wild and crazy guy named Marsuvees Black who seems to have one foot on each floor, and yet another footprint in the town of Paradise. How he manages to be three places at once provides a good part of the tension in this work. Good and evil collide in the minds and hearts of the good people of Paradise and the some orphans who populate the monestary. By now you should be going: "Huh!" That is commonly the thing you say to yourself in all of Dekker's products, but certainly in Showdown.
This has to be the weirdest book yet from Ted Dekker. You see there's this monestary hidden in the cliffs somewhere in the desert. There are two levels, and the lower levels are filled with tunnels occupied by these . . . OK! As Stephen King say: the hardest part of writing science fiction is opening the door. I'll keep the door closed and let Dekker open it for you.
Meanwhile there's this wild and crazy guy named Marsuvees Black who seems to have one foot on each floor, and yet another footprint in the town of Paradise. How he manages to be three places at once provides a good part of the tension in this work. Good and evil collide in the minds and hearts of the good people of Paradise and the some orphans who populate the monestary. By now you should be going: "Huh!" That is commonly the thing you say to yourself in all of Dekker's products, but certainly in Showdown.
posted by Randy Kirk at 8:41 AM
5 Comments:
I love it best book yet of ted!!! hope he could write one just like it! I loved how he brought another character from Black into showdown. that was great!!!!! I like how i thought the end was going to be different than it was. he really messes with ur mind.
Wonderful book!!!!
now i've read this book and that's a wonderful summary, i've just got one question, why is it that DeKker uses the names Black,and red, but no white? As in his books Black,Red,White or what i don't get why he uses those names for his bad people.Oh sorry another question,Are these expirenses that we all face in everyday life?
Please. do you know if Ted is going to make a movie of Showdown? i really liked it and hope he does make a movie of it. it would help me understand it a lot more.
I like your blog. I just created a fansite for Ted's new series "The Lost Books of History". I'd love it if you could do a post and put it in your links section. I'm gonna put a link to your blog in our links section for ya.
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