Although I am reluctant to make even the slightest comparison between this book and China Mieville's The City & The City, it did somehow remind me of Mieville's book because of the topic of duplicity. Alternate realities, a person being on both worlds. This book, however, made me feel like there were many things missing. The diction, the way sentences were phrased, were frequently so childish that it did make me uncomfortable at times.
What was more enjoyable - to me - was the idea that the protagonist, Tom Hunter, went through two worlds in his dreams. One "dream" was Earth, and the other "dream" was another Earth, not being able to decide whether one of them was fiction and if so which one was the true reality. It was enjoyable because this is how real life is in my mind. At my job I interact with people of whom I do not know their lives, but we still create this reality that we all share at the office but when I am with someone else, say my friends from university, the reality of me being at work might as well be a dream because no one else participates in it neither knows about it. It feels as if we all live different realities and whenever we tell another person of our lives it is no different from telling one of our dreams.
That was it. The rest was just trivial, immature, and simple. Unlike other books of fiction that I have read, like The Da Vinci Code, I was not enthralled by "Black" and it felt like Ted Dekker did not reread his book to give more detail, or more thought to the way he prashed the dialogues between the characters. Right now, it seems quite unlikely that I will read the rest of the series, but one never knows, the future is surprisingly random.
What was more enjoyable - to me - was the idea that the protagonist, Tom Hunter, went through two worlds in his dreams. One "dream" was Earth, and the other "dream" was another Earth, not being able to decide whether one of them was fiction and if so which one was the true reality. It was enjoyable because this is how real life is in my mind. At my job I interact with people of whom I do not know their lives, but we still create this reality that we all share at the office but when I am with someone else, say my friends from university, the reality of me being at work might as well be a dream because no one else participates in it neither knows about it. It feels as if we all live different realities and whenever we tell another person of our lives it is no different from telling one of our dreams.
That was it. The rest was just trivial, immature, and simple. Unlike other books of fiction that I have read, like The Da Vinci Code, I was not enthralled by "Black" and it felt like Ted Dekker did not reread his book to give more detail, or more thought to the way he prashed the dialogues between the characters. Right now, it seems quite unlikely that I will read the rest of the series, but one never knows, the future is surprisingly random.