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The weight of life presses down on us all. Some more than others. This novel takes the essence of one life and pours it out against a world-changing backdrop when the sun pushes out the most intense solar flare in known history. The Darkness takes hold of our world while Richard begins his 2,000-mile journey home. His path crosses many lives along the way. Some need his help, some help him, and others seek to destroy. Richard’s physical endurance, iron will, and most of all his heart will each be pushed beyond measure as every turn of events brings one more challenge. The essence of his humanity is tested in ways no one would ever choose. Will he break? Will he give in to hopelessness? What he does during those profoundly difficult moments will create ripples touching many lives before his journey is over. But at what cost to himself and the family who wait for his return…
One More A Solar Maximum Novel The Solar Maximum World Volume 1 Lance Haynes 9781511779678 Books
The author stretched himself a bit instead of living with regret. He has gone through the wringer trying to find his place in the world. The novel loosely follows some things he has been through in real life. He was pressed out of his job as a firefighter-paramedic for things he didn’t do, and yes, he lost all his money trying to get something going in the oil business. Life writes its own interesting plot twists. After writing the first chapters of this book about the desert work, he found himself unexpectedly in Nevada digging holes for a geochem survey, just like he had written about Richard. His comment, “I don’t know if writing about something before experiencing it, fits the definition of irony, but the whole experience made me smile. And think a bit too.“John Whitecloud, the character in the book, being well-versed in physics and faith, was a discovery in the author’s writing process. The author's greatest hope for some of those conversations with John is that people will slow down a bit and say, “Wait, I want to think about this a little while”. It is a book to be read more than once.
Many people abandoned helping others because of need in The Darkness, a period of time without electricity caused by the solar flare. They did what they had to in order to get families through it, and in many cases, it wasn’t enough. Richard tried to stay true to his heart in the midst of this.
The story is full of personal discovery and climbing out of depression from years of loss, including his youngest son, due to a terrible car accident. Richard learned lessons from people and his environment, “even in the brutal heat. Pairs of birds flew about in tandem formations. They chased each other and chattered constantly. Lizards scurried about in the warmth of the sun, along with an occasional jackrabbit hopping in and out of the brush. This place isn’t so barren after all, so maybe I’m not either. “
Richard's life turned upside down over the course of a day. It also moved in a direction, like a river. The current exuded purpose in where it took him; traveling through emotional twists, turns and even rapids. He believed in God and redemption. He also struggled with God from time to time and often became angry about his circumstances. People along his journey provided ways for him to work through his inner demons, even while he helped them in significant ways.
The death of his son David years ago is fundamental to Richard’s state of mind. The world changed in an instant for Richard and his family. David was left mortally wounded. Richard and Julie spent weeks at the hospital, never leaving their boy alone while praying for a miracle that never arrived.
The story touches on the larger world where people panicked in the cities and went nuts. “Same as the 1800 ’s with the Carrington Event and the telegraph lines. Big solar flare blew through our atmosphere and burnt wires all over the continent as it generated its own electricity. Caught all kinds of stuff on fire “
The front cover page depicts a man on a journey and fits the story in may ways. Seemingly what Richard experienced as a dream was now the cover picture: “Rapid breathing and perspiration swept over him as his heart pounded in his chest. Just a few moments before, he stood on a long, straight road. His family stood together on the same road fifty yards away. They smiled and waved at him with excitement... He broke through the far edge of the crowd and fell exhausted onto hot asphalt. When he looked up, he saw nothing; no family, no people. Behind him, the mass of humanity receded away at unnatural speed, leaving him alone on the desolate open road. He snapped awake in this instant. Dim grey light preceded the first glow of dawn as he sat up in bed. The nightmare had ripped the fabric separating reality from the dream world, leaving him now planted in both. Minutes passed as the intense fear and frustration of the vision faded. He arose to his feet and looked at his phone. Time to go.”
A deeper conversation between Richard and John, who advises him about inner battles:
“A man will not see or hear the mountain lion before he descends upon him. The lion will come in swift silence from above to seize your neck and subdue you if you walk unaware and without care. What a man must do is be wary, as the lion is. If you find him welling up within you, do not turn away. You must stand and fight, stare him down and fire without hesitation . And you must also know where one lion is seen, many others stalk in the shadows... The passionate man’s life is full of beauty, and yet full of dangers from within. Those sins will find you in moments of weakness and despair. Grace and forgiveness are the weapons to fight the destroyer. Forgiveness of others who hurt you but most of all, forgiveness for yourself, for your own failures. Richard, you must find your way to the green mountain again with your wife, and then you must be vigilant to guard it by guarding your heart. I’ve carried on enough. Tell me your thoughts....”
Richard’s physical suffering:
"The bloodstain on his shirt had grown to the diameter of a softball but stopped flowing within minutes." Is this going to kill him or will he starve to death? Freeze to death? How does it end?
Take lessons out of Richard’s life and make them yours. Some people like to say they are good but never underestimate the things people will do when cornered. You will see how hard people become in order to keep hold of life. Richard runs across those who are not good...
The story is not an easy one to read. There are terrible times to endure. "After almost an hour of painful cramps and lost blood, he found enough strength to leave the tiny room. He shut the door and vowed not go back when dizziness came upon him like a whirlwind, driving him to his hands and knees. The idea of death as a release became attractive to him but his nature demanded a fight by searching for coherent thoughts in his mind."
The author writes that he hasn’t lost a child, thank God. But he knows what it feels like to wonder if he is dragging everyone he loves, down with him; to feel like a curse when everything he does seems to fail year after year. His wife and he have been through other struggles similar to those in the story. He piled darkness onto to her when no one else could bear it, but she withstood it. She’s tough in her own gentle way.
Author remarks, “Like Richard, I’ve also been backed into the corner of not being able to keep my promises to two sons in college when they deserved more. But they’ve understood. I’ve plumbed the depths of what I think life is about while pushing against it and trying to be true to my principles along the way in real-life struggles. When I wrote this book, I lived inside the story. It was unavoidable. Being a tourist in my own mind was an exhilarating but exhausting experience.”
The author wrote One More as an existential exploration of what choice is in the mind of a man, and what might be considered destiny or divine purpose. His hope is that the story would raise questions equally for the person of faith as much as the atheist. Why would Richard react the way he did, or hold onto something when the circumstances begged otherwise? And once the story was read, did any of those notions change? He hopes those thoughts will occupy the mind of the reader.
Reading One More for the first time is great, but it holds enough interest for a second reading to explore some of the ways the words will change in meaning. Added perspective on knowing the whole story, will reveal new insight and new impact in many of the passages. As for Richard, the author does not know if he could live up to his example, but he is certainly what he would aspire to be in those dark moments, even though he was flawed in his own right as he is. He does not ever want to be tested like he was. The Solar Maximum world has so many other stories to be told. But he will always hold this one close for what it helped him to work through and be grateful for. No other character will be as close to him as Richard was.
An inspirational book.
Scarlett Jensen
29 December 2015
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One More A Solar Maximum Novel The Solar Maximum World Volume 1 Lance Haynes 9781511779678 Books Reviews
One More is about personal choices and struggles that we face in our daily lives. It is basically a journey through life where the protagonist meets all sorts of people belonging to different temperaments. Here some are helpful and kind while others are cruel and conniving. The journey touches Richard Evans in a number of ways and leave him (and the readers) with innumerable memories and experiences. It tests his iron will, his steel resolve and his basic humanity where at certain times he seems to be weakening and letting go, but later bringing to the forefront enormous inner strength that leaves the readers in awe. There is intense struggle at all front and it is only the personal integrity, determination and love for his family that makes Evans move forward in the face of all the obstacles.
The writing style is simplistic and easy and at some places (like the rattlesnake episode) I felt that I am actually watching the sequence before me. Lance Haynes has given minute details making the story come alive. It is a human story that everyone must read and take lessons from it.
The author combines his real life experience with fiction in this tale of redemption, love and hope. Richard Evans is a man who has allowed the pitfalls of life to overshadow his spirit. He had just realized that he needed to change for his family when the solar flare occurred knocking out the grid across the world. I was not surprised at how quickly morality went downhill when people were deprived of basic necessities. I believe that the adventures Richard had were very astute and real. I also felt like the characters were complex and down to earth, it made me feel like this could be an actual event.
Richard's focus was to get home to his family but he took the time to help others on the way. I was saddened that he didn't get the chance to see how many lives his acts of kindness touched. Haynes captured the nitty-gritty of the internal struggle that Richard fought as he traveled home. I found myself cheering him on to make it against the odds to get back to his family. It is so unfortunate that despite the advances of the human race when bad things happen it still brings out the bad and ugly in so many people. Overall, great read for anyone who likes personal growth mixed with action adventure.
It's a bold choice to write an apocalyptic novel these days, primarily because there are so many out there. The genre has exploded in recent years, and it's becoming hard not to bump into a few rather poor examples. This book, however, delivers in every way that a natural disaster/futuristic story should. There is a strong central character that has an increasingly intense set of obstacles to overcome to achieve his ultimate goal. In this case, that is getting home to his family, which is another common theme in many books. At first glance, you would expect this to be hackneyed or reminiscent of a dozen other novels, but there is something far more philosophical in the writing here. Richard is not your average hero, and while he is inherently good, we are given a glimpse into his dark side.
At times, it reminded me of many of the tough decisions that Rick has to face in the Walking Dead, and while I don't mean to draw comparisons between books and tv shows, there is a similarity in the writing and the slow emotional development of the plot. At the end of the tale, we are forced to answer a question that Richard has been wrestling with from the very beginning Is life about the destination or the journey? Cliche, perhaps, but this book explicates and explores that idea in new and unforgettable ways.
The author stretched himself a bit instead of living with regret. He has gone through the wringer trying to find his place in the world. The novel loosely follows some things he has been through in real life. He was pressed out of his job as a firefighter-paramedic for things he didn’t do, and yes, he lost all his money trying to get something going in the oil business. Life writes its own interesting plot twists. After writing the first chapters of this book about the desert work, he found himself unexpectedly in Nevada digging holes for a geochem survey, just like he had written about Richard. His comment, “I don’t know if writing about something before experiencing it, fits the definition of irony, but the whole experience made me smile. And think a bit too.“
John Whitecloud, the character in the book, being well-versed in physics and faith, was a discovery in the author’s writing process. The author's greatest hope for some of those conversations with John is that people will slow down a bit and say, “Wait, I want to think about this a little while”. It is a book to be read more than once.
Many people abandoned helping others because of need in The Darkness, a period of time without electricity caused by the solar flare. They did what they had to in order to get families through it, and in many cases, it wasn’t enough. Richard tried to stay true to his heart in the midst of this.
The story is full of personal discovery and climbing out of depression from years of loss, including his youngest son, due to a terrible car accident. Richard learned lessons from people and his environment, “even in the brutal heat. Pairs of birds flew about in tandem formations. They chased each other and chattered constantly. Lizards scurried about in the warmth of the sun, along with an occasional jackrabbit hopping in and out of the brush. This place isn’t so barren after all, so maybe I’m not either. “
Richard's life turned upside down over the course of a day. It also moved in a direction, like a river. The current exuded purpose in where it took him; traveling through emotional twists, turns and even rapids. He believed in God and redemption. He also struggled with God from time to time and often became angry about his circumstances. People along his journey provided ways for him to work through his inner demons, even while he helped them in significant ways.
The death of his son David years ago is fundamental to Richard’s state of mind. The world changed in an instant for Richard and his family. David was left mortally wounded. Richard and Julie spent weeks at the hospital, never leaving their boy alone while praying for a miracle that never arrived.
The story touches on the larger world where people panicked in the cities and went nuts. “Same as the 1800 ’s with the Carrington Event and the telegraph lines. Big solar flare blew through our atmosphere and burnt wires all over the continent as it generated its own electricity. Caught all kinds of stuff on fire “
The front cover page depicts a man on a journey and fits the story in may ways. Seemingly what Richard experienced as a dream was now the cover picture “Rapid breathing and perspiration swept over him as his heart pounded in his chest. Just a few moments before, he stood on a long, straight road. His family stood together on the same road fifty yards away. They smiled and waved at him with excitement... He broke through the far edge of the crowd and fell exhausted onto hot asphalt. When he looked up, he saw nothing; no family, no people. Behind him, the mass of humanity receded away at unnatural speed, leaving him alone on the desolate open road. He snapped awake in this instant. Dim grey light preceded the first glow of dawn as he sat up in bed. The nightmare had ripped the fabric separating reality from the dream world, leaving him now planted in both. Minutes passed as the intense fear and frustration of the vision faded. He arose to his feet and looked at his phone. Time to go.”
A deeper conversation between Richard and John, who advises him about inner battles
“A man will not see or hear the mountain lion before he descends upon him. The lion will come in swift silence from above to seize your neck and subdue you if you walk unaware and without care. What a man must do is be wary, as the lion is. If you find him welling up within you, do not turn away. You must stand and fight, stare him down and fire without hesitation . And you must also know where one lion is seen, many others stalk in the shadows... The passionate man’s life is full of beauty, and yet full of dangers from within. Those sins will find you in moments of weakness and despair. Grace and forgiveness are the weapons to fight the destroyer. Forgiveness of others who hurt you but most of all, forgiveness for yourself, for your own failures. Richard, you must find your way to the green mountain again with your wife, and then you must be vigilant to guard it by guarding your heart. I’ve carried on enough. Tell me your thoughts....”
Richard’s physical suffering
"The bloodstain on his shirt had grown to the diameter of a softball but stopped flowing within minutes." Is this going to kill him or will he starve to death? Freeze to death? How does it end?
Take lessons out of Richard’s life and make them yours. Some people like to say they are good but never underestimate the things people will do when cornered. You will see how hard people become in order to keep hold of life. Richard runs across those who are not good...
The story is not an easy one to read. There are terrible times to endure. "After almost an hour of painful cramps and lost blood, he found enough strength to leave the tiny room. He shut the door and vowed not go back when dizziness came upon him like a whirlwind, driving him to his hands and knees. The idea of death as a release became attractive to him but his nature demanded a fight by searching for coherent thoughts in his mind."
The author writes that he hasn’t lost a child, thank God. But he knows what it feels like to wonder if he is dragging everyone he loves, down with him; to feel like a curse when everything he does seems to fail year after year. His wife and he have been through other struggles similar to those in the story. He piled darkness onto to her when no one else could bear it, but she withstood it. She’s tough in her own gentle way.
Author remarks, “Like Richard, I’ve also been backed into the corner of not being able to keep my promises to two sons in college when they deserved more. But they’ve understood. I’ve plumbed the depths of what I think life is about while pushing against it and trying to be true to my principles along the way in real-life struggles. When I wrote this book, I lived inside the story. It was unavoidable. Being a tourist in my own mind was an exhilarating but exhausting experience.”
The author wrote One More as an existential exploration of what choice is in the mind of a man, and what might be considered destiny or divine purpose. His hope is that the story would raise questions equally for the person of faith as much as the atheist. Why would Richard react the way he did, or hold onto something when the circumstances begged otherwise? And once the story was read, did any of those notions change? He hopes those thoughts will occupy the mind of the reader.
Reading One More for the first time is great, but it holds enough interest for a second reading to explore some of the ways the words will change in meaning. Added perspective on knowing the whole story, will reveal new insight and new impact in many of the passages. As for Richard, the author does not know if he could live up to his example, but he is certainly what he would aspire to be in those dark moments, even though he was flawed in his own right as he is. He does not ever want to be tested like he was. The Solar Maximum world has so many other stories to be told. But he will always hold this one close for what it helped him to work through and be grateful for. No other character will be as close to him as Richard was.
An inspirational book.
Scarlett Jensen
29 December 2015
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