A Being Darkly Wise

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This must read novel takes the dry facts about climate change and turns them into a page turning thriller and a story of our time Read it now Joseph Romm Editor of Climate Progress and author of Hell and High Water Pete Andersen was hooked from the moment he read the ad Learn survival skills in the majestic peaks of British Columbia s Eaglenest Mountains Not for the faint hearted Three months later, Pete and eleven others are dropped off in one of the most remote areas in North America, with no way out As Pete learns primitive survival skills at the feet of their charismatic leader, Jake Christianson, he believes he s found paradise But when his companions begin to turn up dead, apparently mauled to death by a rogue grizzly, paradise turns to hell Pete suspects it may not be a grizzly the group has been splintering into factions, and Jake is unraveling before his eyes.Pete is forced to lead the killer on an epic chase across the continental divide and through the boreal forests of British Columbia to save the others It is a race against a pursuer possessed with seemingly supernatural endurance a race that will push him to the limits of human capacity and beyond, but it is a race he cannot allow himself to lose Because the survival of all that he loves depends upon him winning.Readers are unanimous A Being Darkly Wise is a must read, keep you up all night, nail biting thriller And. Read A Being Darkly Wise By John Atcheson – kino-fada.fr I m a big fan of the blog site Climate Progress, which covers the latest news about global warming and related issues When an excellent review of the novel A Being Darkly Wise appeared on the site, I knew I wanted to read it Like my own novel, Lights Out, it deals with our impending environmental catastrophe, and it was self published on .com, where it received excellent reviews Obviously, my expectations were high.The story is pretty straightforward, and works well as a combinati I m a big fan of the blog site Climate Progress, which covers the latest news about global warming and related issues When an excellent review of the novel A Being Darkly Wise appeared on the site, I knew I wanted to read it Like my own novel, Lights Out, it deals with our impending environmental catastrophe, and it was self published on ...A Being Darkly Wise by John Atcheson is a complicated and fascinating story It encompasses the stream of consciousness we all feel in the midst of our struggles between reality and unreality, good versus evil, subjective experience versus traditional as well as unexplored values, past present future concrete existentialism, motivational religious experiences merging with academic explorations, altered states of consciousness, a stretching of the too often defined borders of human thought relate A Being Darkly Wise by John Atcheson is a complicated and fascinating story It encompasses the stream of consciousness we all feel in the midst of our struggles between reality and unreality, good versus evil, subjective experience versus traditional as well as unexplored values, past present future concrete existentialism, motivational religious experiences merging with academic explorations, altered states of consciousness, a stretchi...I tend to read two, three, sometimesbooks at a time I found myself putting the rest of them down to concentrate on A Being Darkly Wise I also found myself doing a lot of internet searches on the EPA The writing was skillful The story drew me in slowly and then kept me hoo...Good story5 stars for a compelling story, likeable characters and relevant subject matter Surprised i read it so quickly Would recommend to a friend.This review also appears on Joe Follansbee blog.Environmentalists share a kinship with devotees of religion the former prefers to ignore and the latter enjoys lampooning Extremists in both camps have a matching emotional commitment to their cause an anarchist or Taliban mullah would admire Both have a mystical attachment to an idea, one an invisible spiritual value of nature, the other a devotion to an unseen God Except for Jake Christianson, the antagonist in John Atcheson s self published This review also appears on Joe Follansbee blog.Environmentalists share a kinship with devotees of religion the former prefers to ignore and the latter enjoys lampooning Extremists in both camps have a matching emotional commitment to their cause an anarchist or Taliban mullah would admire Both have a mystical attachment to an idea, one an invisible spiritual value of nature, the ot...Any novel that has global warming as a theme gets three stars from me for that fact alone.Unfortunately, I did not like this book Of course, not everybody can like every book, so the fault may be on my part.I noted that rather a large number of simple mistakes made it through the editing For example, Atcheson would need to read this, and then do a search and replace he wrote Do you here me He really did There are other such mistakes, some of wh Any novel that has global warming as a theme gets three stars from me for that fact alone.Unfortunately, I did not like this book Of course, not everybody can like every book, so the fault may be on my part.I noted that rather a large number of simple mistakes made it through the editing For example, Atcheson would need to read this, and then do a search and replace he wrote Do you here me He really did There are other such mistakes, some of which I will send to the author over Goodreads.But these are technical points What bothered mewas the plot.For one, there were way too many characters I know that Jesus had 12 disciples And Atcheson probably wanted to model his sto...SPOILER HEREHaving trouble deciding what I think of this book Thumbnail It is about a mysterious man Jake who recruits a group of 12 Eco oriented folk including a politician, author, reporter, lawyer, EPA bureaucrat, etc to attend an extreme survival month long stint in the remote Canadian wilderness, as an apparent attempt to harness their talent to stop humanity from destroying what is left of the ecosystem of the planet.If you know much about environmental issues, you have probably heard SPOILER HEREHaving trouble deciding what I think of this book Thumbnail It is about a mysterious man Jake who recruits a group of 12 Eco oriented folk including a politician, author, reporter, lawyer, EPA bureaucrat, etc to attend an extreme survival month long stint in the remote Canadian wilderness, as an apparent attempt to harness their talent to stop humanity from destroying what is left of the ecosystem of the planet.If you know much about environmental issues, you ...Compelling The book get s off to a slow start and takes time introducing us to the forested wilderness embraced in this story Having spent some of the most satisfying years of my life on a river in the Redwood forest, or backpacking in the canyons of Arizona and Utah, while studying Geology, I did not have to be persuaded of the eminent threat that a warming planet presents Still, I read on and found myself engaged in the struggle represented in the story How can we get people bound by ceme Compelling The book get s off to a slow start and takes time introducing us to the fore...I liked this book really I did, I just have a hard time forgiving the wooden dialogue and cliche characterizations to give it anythan three stars With that said this is a provocative book and entertaining to boot, particularly the last 100 pages.a page turner Offering the perspective that we are just another of natures experiments was refreshing We are fu ing the place up but c est la vie If Michael Manns hockey stick projection is true we all need to be a bitJake lik I liked this book really I did, I just have a hard time forgiving the wooden dialogue and cliche characterizations to give it anythan three stars With that said this is a provocative book and entertaining to boot, particularly the last 100 pages.a page turner Offering the perspective that we are just another of natures experiments was refreshing We...Dark The title comes from an acclaimed essay by Alexander Pope on the meaning of man It seems to indicate that man possesses a little too much of this, while lacking a bit too little of that I really had a sense of the sinister, of something incredibly dark As the story unfolded, I gotinto the plot line than the short, predictable sentences Neither the plot line nor the writing style particularly appealed to be, but it ended up being a book I needed to finish just to see what finally Dark The title comes from an acclaimed essay by Alexander Pope on the meaning of man It seems to indicate that man possesses a lit...

A Being Darkly Wise
  • 21 November 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 389 pages
  • John Atcheson
  • A Being Darkly Wise