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20 February 2011
Nice; enthralling continuation of the other!!!
Lama Milkweed L. Augustine's 'SONGS OF MILKWEED; A GIFT FROM THE FIELDS VOL II" was a a nice and very moving continuation to her other book of near equal length of pages. The tales, poems, and short stories were diferent as they were of equal value, but a little less intense, although they were just as poignent. I loved how she talked expliciitly about the lepers of the world throught her writings, her memories of torture while held in captivity, while the "fire was hot", and one could honestly envision the complexity of the suffering of such a brilliant minded person of faith and understaiding. Very inffffffformative and lingers in the painful, but exciting fabric of her childhood that only moves farther away.
SONGS OF MILKWEED II touched me very deeply as one can see her life as something that has not changed very much at all despite her growth; just as she proclaime don the outside back cover and in the first few pages upon openieng it. The author is a very gifted woman of a valuable form of truthfulness that is rare amidst writers, especially those of religion. She bares all in these two volumes of hefty pages and photographs. I loved her sense of uninhibited imagination that certainly expells a treasure trove of conflicting insights and knowledge, and staggering wisdom rarely seen from one so young.
Lama Milkkweed Augustine has installed herself as a wonderful and refreshingly intelligent writer. I wowuld reccommend it to anyone who loves poems, esays, and short stories, especially the two theses about her most prolific books of nonfiction, 'THE CHAIN SAW MAN I, II, III" and"ETERNAL I.V. POLE."
Another triumph for Lama Milkweed.
06 January 2006
compelling, interesting, and terrifying
THE CHAIN SAW MAN COMETH, SEQUAL II, is surely a book of drastic and terrifying proportions, as like the author's other work, THE CHAIN SAW MAN, make the reader really think about what happens in places not so far from our front doorsteps. The adventure of being brought right into the journeys of ALLEN SHAW, "the chain saw man," as the variable emotional state of this compelling story take one into terrifying secretive acts of indiscriminate offences and killings combined with torture. The author of these highly detailed novels will reveal just what it was like for her when being tortured, as well as her life spent in the back wooded wilderness of this country, as she is known for her preservation of the past, as this fact is so dominantly detailed and told to the reader on a repeated basis.
The religious leader contains a profound sense of comprehension of the workings of a Satanic cult, as she literally reveals the opposite of our human nature so wonderfully, especially in the sections where he murders innocent lives in this highly wooded plain of existance. A definate "nail biter" as well as a "white knuckle ride" into our darkest dreams and unknown terrors that endlessly lurk within us all. The emotional factor and the festering vulnerabilities she, LAMA MILKWEED L. AUGUSTINE, revealed from time to time as a survivor of horriffic and brutal abuse and tortures, but in equal contrast, the intense love and endless affection she claims for her family and it's ways of life that are nearly disappeared from our view. The outpouring of sorrowful emotions flickers on and off as the author tries with great succssess, to take us into HER world, but touches the inner sence of valuse we hold dear while doing it. The overall sense of anger from her life of unspeakible brutalities which were so unfair, revealed to me as the reader and follower of this particular talented author, that she has much to reveal, as unlike anything of this kind of horror genre` I've experienced has caused me to actually THINK.
The victim sometimes CAN BE the killer; and for very good reasons. If one has her book "ETERNAL I. V. POLE." the CHAIN SAW MAN SERIES must be gotten as well, as this is the only way one can surely comprehend just what thee is A CHAIN SAW MAN lurking secretly inside of us all.
06 October 2007
VERY TERRIFYING, HIGHLY EMOTIONAL AND BEGUILING!
I enjoyed "CLEAVER" by LAMA MILKWEED L. AUGUUSTINE PHD in a rare manner that is unlike most customary horror novels on the book market today, which go in a different direction and steer away from her CHAIN SAW MAN TRILOGY.
I liked the way the young author described the man's emotional existance as she uses flashbacks to perpetuate the harrowing and terrifying prresent, which often provokes a writhing and "off the wall" form of nail biting terror in which I have not read before in highly descriptive novels.
"CLEAVER" scared me to the point where things lost their perspective as I literaly shivered in the confines of the secretive scenes of hideous specticles and blood curtling screams which took place on the old slaughterer's human victims, and mostly in the darkness. The pinicle in this particular book, was when the old man, or slaughterer, took in his infernal clutches the young waitress "TANKA RAY" in his old outdated pick up truck on the country dirt backroads, which brought me immediately to the times of the "TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE." The terrible pitch darkness in which he carried her upstairs and tortured her over and over until she eventually dies under his atrocious endeavors. This book brings one back to the little man ED GIENE in the exact proportions, as well as just what he did to his victims, save for the fact that he did not dig up graves, but merely luring them into his old white farmhouse and at the same instant, longing for his dead wife and his intermittent son's existance, ROGER GULNN.
I rate this perplexing and very forbidding read as quite unlike nothing I have read, as this young and terminally ill author, and religious leader who survived years upon years of brutal physical torture, literally brings me to my knees whenever I read her incredible books, which according to interviews with the author I have listened to, ALBANY'S F.B.I. uses her books, THE CHAIN SAW MAN I,II,III, and ETERANL I.V. POLE, for valauable reference, because she has taken us all into the very mind, heart, and thinking process, as to what it is exactly like to be IN the presence of a killer and destroyer of souls as well as the living body, and she does it in uncanny proportion.
She is the most talented horror novelist I have ever seen, because she merely writes from the manuscript from her OWN harrowing life.
THE CHAIN SAW WARRIOR