Scorched Earth

Horrible. Absolutely horrible. If the poor style doesn't make your brain bleed, the lack of any coherent story line will do so. There is much great literature out there, so don't waste your time on this.

I find it amusing that in the last review by Walter he acts as if only a few were hating his book, while every single review on the book (besides his \"modest\" three stars) are extremely negative. Just another example of the drivel that is pumped out into the world these days.

Great to see people liking and/or even hating my material. Funny, however, that my novel is being published out of India (without my permission), and seems to be selling relatively well.
I wrote this between 1979 and 1981, when I was a kid in college.
Since then I wrote about a dozen books and they are not all as "florid and bastardized bible" sorts of stories.
Thanks for the comments - good and bad - but the essence of criticism is not to insult but to help something become better.

I seriously doubt anyone will ever read more than twenty pages of this book, I certainly couldn't and I'll read just about anything. Anyone could sit down and write this sort of tripe because it's not storytelling it's just pure waffle full of empty and laughably grandiose language.

It reads like 'the infinite space rejoiced at the infinite wonder of the swirling infinite joy of the infinity and swirled infinitely in the cosmic wonder of infinity.'

I'm not kidding, imagine page after page of that! The preface expresses the authors hopes that he will be published and that people will enjoy his writing. As someone who has had the pleasure of working in publishing all their adult life I can honestly say neither of these is likely.

I couldn't finish this - so bad!

Came back to warn other away with this review.

The prose was very florid and descriptive unfortunately the story wasn't. It read like the bastard child of the bible, planet of the apes and any number of poorly written fantasy novels. Too many characters whom we know too little about. Whole plotlines conceived then waved away with little more than a phrase. A reliance on magic over science. Pages and pages of "so and so begat so and so who had twins and begat the father of so and so" etc. Really stuff no-one would care about.

Clumsy phrasing such as this gem: "the radiation caused the animals to mutate. Eagles grew as tall as trees"

Just you because you can string enough words together doesn't mean you have to write a book. The acheivment in writing a book is in telling the story not how many words you can pump out. There was no real story to Scorched Earth. It made no sense.

Hello and thanks to all who downloaded Scorched Earth, thus far. Hopefully you will hit my books again and see this new request.

It seems like I have a potential agent to handle my work, and Scorched Earth appears to have some strong interest.

To that end, I humbly request a brief critique of my novel by all who have decided to read it. This will, undoubtedly, help me in my publishing endeavours.

Let me know if you like or even if you don't like it. Let me know what works and what doesn't, and any suggetions for improving the work. For all those responding to this request I will beg the future publisher to allow mention of your name in the acknowledgements, for your helpful criticisms.

Thanks
Walter

Hi,
I'm the author of the novel Scorched Earth.
I truly hope you enjoy reading it, and I remember that when I wrote it - back in 1979-80 - I enjoyed committing it to paper.
I would greatly appreciate any and all criticisms regarding my work, as it can only serve to help me improve the work for any future publication.
Being somewhat modest I leave the Rating at the middle button and let you decide.
Walter - [email protected]