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But I felt like he grew over the course of this book All three of the younger characters are a great mix of cynical and naive It makes them easy to like despite some of their actions The ending was quite a shock and it will be interesting to see how things develop in the third book. Catholic book the last four things Rating 4 stars Audio Note Sean Barrett s performance is nothing short of fantastic I d not be surprised if he added at least a star to my rating He just gets the dry cynical humor of this story 0718155211 Below quick thoughts as I was reading the book as usual I will c p the full FBC review in due course4 16 Some 1 3 1 2 in the book and it is as crazily inventive and good as The Left Hand of God.

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I was underwhelmed by The Left Hand of God while I thought it had potential it was also flawed The test was going to be whether the author built on the potential or not Sadly in The Last Four Things the flaws are much evident in a rather difficult read where the author seems to have abandoned the potential and built in flaws The narrative style seems different with a smug observational style and the author then rather over indulges himself in the very things that jarred in the first novel Lead character Cale continues to be hard to emphasise with and indeed it is hard to relate to anyone in this novel Add to that a somewhat meaningless plot set in a world that has many familiar names and places and yet is not our world yet the author offers no explanation This was very painful to read a real chore and an utter waste of a few reading hours Avoid like the plague if ever there was a book where the editor or publisher needed to step in and re direct the author this is it 0718155211 0718155211 This book is jammed packed with conspiracies war strategies and battles And although there were many actions scenes I loved and enjoyed I felt like the story as a whole didn t progress much It s like the end of this one could have started right where book one left off so this book felt a little unnecessary to the story I m looking forward to jumping into book three though so fingers crossed the outcome rocks 0718155211 hanging on the three star borderI want to love the books in this series I probably do a bit So let me explain my ratingWhen reading the first book I fell in love with the main character And the idea for the story Wow Very nice there Hoffman But when I finished the first one I was left with the thought that not a lot had actually happened in it Sure there were parts of action and big revelations but when I turned the last page I was still waiting for that something Never the less was I totally excited for the second installment I though the style of the first one must surely have been just because of that lacking because we were just getting to know the characters Everything would probably come together better and dig deeper into Cale as a character in the second one But is just didn t I am starting to wonder and worry if this is really the way the author writes his books Still the end was a magnificent cliffhanger that makes me want to buy the next book right this second Huh. Catholic book the last four things Quando li A M o Esquerda de Deus ao in cio achei o livro um pouco parado e desinteressante No entanto a partir mais ou menos das 100 p g a hist ria come ou a tornar se interessante Parecia que as coisas aconteciam com uma finalidade. Catholic book the last four things Quando parti para As Quatro ltimas Coisas ia preparada para que pudesse eventualmente acontecer o mesmo Um in cio mais morno e depois desenvolvimentos interessantes N o podia ter ficado mais decepcionada O livro come a e termina com cr ticas mais que directas igreja N o tenho problema nenhum com isso deixo j este esclarecimento Mas quando comprei este livro n o foi de certeza com o intuito de ler um texto reflexivo contra a igreja foi sim com a ideia de ler uma hist ria interessante Isso n o aconteceu A verdade que basicamente n o existe hist ria O livro n o passa de um enorme enrolan o Antes do meio do livro sentia me confusa e j n o percebia para qu tantas voltas e afinal qual a finalidade de tudo aquilo porque os personagens estavam a passar que diga se de passagem n o eram nada de especial pois tudo se resolvia com estrema rapidez As personagens parecem ter perdido profundidade ao longo da hist ria em vez de a ganharem principalmente Cale Sinceramente deixou de me dizer o que quer que seja A nica personagem que talvez me continue a agradar o Henri Vago. EBook The Last Four things remembered Resumindo e baralhando n o vale a pena ir para este livro espera de uma boa hist ria V o mais preparados para uma lavagem cerebral A ideia que este livro d que foi escrito essencialmente para encher chouri os 0718155211 Note Paul HoffmanPossibly the only novelist of his generation to be born by the light of a paraffin lamp Paul Hoffman spent much of his childhood on airfields all around the world watching his father a pioneer of sports parachuting and European Champion jumping out of aeroplanes After a long battle with the English educational system which involved avoiding school whenever possible he was offered a place to read English at New College Oxford when no other university would interview him After graduating he worked in over twenty different jobs including boardman in a betting shop messenger boy to a City merchant bank and teacher He was also senior film censor at the British Board of Film Classification. The Last Four Things epub pdf His first novel The Wisdom Note Paul HoffmanPossibly the only novelist of his generation to be born by the light of a paraffin lamp Paul Hoffman spent much of his childhood on airfields all around the world watching his father a pioneer of sports parachuting and European Champion jumping out of aeroplanes After a long battle with the English educational system which involved avoiding school whenever possible he was offered a place to read English at New College Oxford when no other university would interview him After graduating he worked in over twenty different jobs including boardman in a betting shop messenger boy to a City merchant bank and teacher He was also senior film censor at the British Board of Film Classification. EBook The Last Four things i hate His first novel The Wisdom of Crocodiles took thirteen years to write Among other things it predicted the re emergence of international terrorism in the 21st Century and the precise nature of the collapse of the world financial system Part of the novel was made into a film starring Jude Law and Timothy Spall His second novel The Golden Age of Censorship a black comedy based on his experiences as a film censor was published in 2007 As a screenwriter he has written or co written three produced films and worked with among others Francis Ford Coppola site_link The epic story of Thomas Cale introduced so memorably in The Left Hand of God continues as the Redeemers use his prodigious gifts to further their sacred goal the extinction of humankind and the end of the world To the warrior monks known as the Redeemers who rule over massive armies of child slaves the last four things represent the culmination of a faithful life Death Judgement Heaven Hell The last four things represent eternal bliss or endless destruction permanent chaos and infinite pain Perhaps nowhere are the competing ideas of heaven and hell exhibited clearly than in the dark and tormented soul of Thomas Cale Betrayed by his beloved but still marked by a child s innocence possessed of a remarkable aptitude for violence but capable of extreme tenderness Cale will lead the Redeemers into a battle for nothing less than the fate of the human race And though his broken heart foretells the bloody trail he will leave in pursuit of a personal peace he can never achieve a glimmer of hope remains The question even Cale can t answer When it comes time to decide the fate of the world to ensure the extermination of humankind or spare it what will he choose To express God s will on the edge of his sword or to forgive his fellow man and himself The Last Four Things The Left Hand of God 2 This had a very different feel to the first book in the series I was of a droll military fantasy I liked it but not as much as the first book The plot lacked the humor and fast pace of the first book but was still interesting enough I enjoyed learning of Bosco s plans for Cale and the world as a whole and his scheming made for compelling reading He does think big Cale is still an interesting character to read about but he is a bit less likable in this one as he was still struggling to come to terms with Arbell s betrayal Both Vague Henry and IdrisPukke had smaller roles and that is largely the reason why this lacked the humor of the first book Kleist has a subplot of his own and it was good to learn about him as a character He is not the most likable guy ever with the same alternating of styles tones and narrative modes there is considerably backstory and world building and things make sense and hang together well but the same all but the kitchen sink is thrown in and this one has some stuff that s even outrageously funny than in The Left Hand of God and I found myself shaking with laughter often though the book is also pretty dark and not for the easily offended. Science Fiction Fantasy The Last Four things remembered The Pyramid of Lincoln and the Bosco ordered forgery to save his and Cale s bacon The Protocols of the Moderators of Antagonism are among the many early pearls and even than in The Left Hand of God The Last Four Things abounds with such play on the famous and infamous from history always well done imhoAnd there are battles treachery fights blunders deep seated plans that may or may not workEdit 4 18 About 100 pages to go out of 400 and The Last Four Things has been all I expected and I would have easily finished the book in the weekend but I enjoy it so much that I do not want it to end so every 100 150 pages I reread them before going forward. The Last Four Things epub pdf Even now and I have no real idea where it will go I expect a particular ending to this one but who knows the author keeps throwing surprises as well as underlining how the best laid plans just break because of stupidity misunderstandings or pure chance The all but the kitchen sink famous and infamous from history continues to delight and the book is just awesome better than The Left Hand of God in some ways because it hangs things together and makes sense of the big pictureCale Bosco Vague Henry Kleist and a few new characters are shining of course Cale first and foremost but the rest have also great lines on occasion. The Last Four Things epub free Edit 4 18 later I finished the book and while what I expected to happen happened the book went further twisted again and left me a bit stunned without again having much of a clue about what s going to happen in the 3rd volume this time the author has a great two page explanation about his sources including famous philosophersCatholic thinkers poets obscure manuals of war that are available online and one in famous speech of Saddam Hussein seems to be on YouTube that cribs here before. Catholic book the last four things All in all The Last Four Things takes the promise of the Left Hand of God fulfills it and in a considerably complex book this time with all the world building that was only hinted there but keeping the narrative switches and the many twists while the trilogy finale is something I really really want asapAlso this is another book like The Clockwork Rocket that will take a while to process though here I am just somewhat stunned by the ending since the book kept getting darker and darker and went beyond emotion in some ways like say The Kindly Ones than the usual sffFull FBC Review INTRODUCTION Last year s The Left Hand of God was a novel that elicited very powerful but mixed responses there were people that loathed it or thought it s the worst hyped debut of the year and there were people including myself that utterly loved it and thought it was awesome So The Last Four Things was one the five novels I marked as must read try and get a copy as soon as possible etc for 2011 though I was a little apprehensive if the magic of The Left Hand of God will still be there for me or the series will be exposed as emperor s new clothes as many others have claimed. The Last Four Things epub reader Once I opened it and I got entranced once in the twisted world of Thomas Cale and the Redemeers I applied my reading method for books I do not want to end read 100 pages reread them read another 100 pages and then read the full 200 etc. Science Fiction Fantasy The Last Four things Due to circumstances I was not able to write this review for the earlier UK publication so I postponed it for today s US publication and that added the time dimension since now after several months I can look back and evaluate it better. The Last Four Things epub pdf OVERVIEW ANALYSIS I want to start by remarking that The Last Four Things is a book that most likely will have the same resonance as The Left Hand of God with the reader You hated that don t bother you loved it get this asap. The Last Four Things Science Fiction fantasy baseball I make this claim since the things that distinguished The Left Hand of God from the run of the mill dark bad boy fantasy that is in vogue today the alternation of styles from exuberant to really dark the mostly superb word plays on the famous and infamous in history the strange and occasionally merciless undertones and the twists and turns that truly made the next pages unpredictable are still there. EPub The Last Four things i learned However there are some notable differences too The Last Four Things has considerably backstory and world building and indeed things make sense and hang together eliminating one of my fears after the sketched world of the previous novel namely that the author s world won t make sense in detail But it does and here we see things like logistics speed of communication population sizes etc all adding depth and painting a full 3D picture. Science Fiction Fantasy The Last Four things The characters also get texture though the third person narrative allows Thomas Cale to still remain a mystery now he is coming into his own far from the scared boy genius of The Left of God to the outwardly confident man that events if not age made him be His master tormentor and protector Redemeer Bosco comes also into his own here and the novel is as much about his plans as about Thomas Cale s odyssey so now we have two extremely powerful and larger than life characters not only one And in a partly comic relief partly wistful role Kleist gets his own thread too though I found it less interesting than the main Bosco Cale one. Catholic book the last four things The other personages from the debut Vague Henry IdrisPukke Vipond Arbell and Conn Materazzi etc make also appearances and several secondary but quite interesting characters are introduced too while some of the scenes between them and Cale are utterly memorable and constitute a key to the ending which is another stunner There was a point in the book where I thought I know what will happen and how The Last Four Things will end but the author turned and surprised me once again making the trilogy ending another book to beg and cajole for as early a copy as possible. Catholic book the last four things All but the kitchen sink is still thrown in and The Last Four Things has some stuff that s even outrageously funny than in The Left Hand of God so I found myself shaking with laughter often though the book is also pretty dark and not for the easily offended The Pyramid of Lincoln and The Protocols of the Moderators of Antagonism the Bosco ordered forgery to save his and Cale s bacon after the events in The Left Hand of God and Cale s defection are among the many early pearls and the book abounds with these historical allusions as interpreted by the author. Catholic book the last four things In a very nice touch the author has a great two page explanation about his sources including famous philosophers Catholic thinkers poets obscure manuals of war that are available online and one in famous speech of Saddam Hussein which seems to be on YouTube speech that cribs in the book before Since it s a Saddam speech the last should be easily guessed at. List four things that can change environments After some months have passed from finishing the novel there is one weakness I missed in the emotion of the first read The Last Four Things is ultimately a transitional middle book and while it has a clear theme and an ending to one of its main threads we still remain a bit in the dark where all ultimately will go as mentioned I thought I had an idea but the ending quickly disabused me of that. Science Fiction Fantasy The Last Four things Overall The Last Four Things A takes the promise of The Left Hand of God and fulfills it in a complex book with all the world building that was only hinted there but keeping the narrative switches and the many twists while the trilogy finale is something I really want asap 0718155211 Wow I m so disappointed I think I just wasted my time How did this get so bad and so out of control I had liked the first book really liked it and I got into this hoping and wishing for a book that would blew me away Instead I got a bland boring book. EBook The Last Four things i hate I swear by the end of the book nothing has really happened I did an experiment while reading the book and read some paragraphs and skipping some because I felt like there were lots of detail with no reason whatsoever The writing the plot. The Last Four Things epub reader Everything is all over the place The author overdoes it a bit I think he s too dramatic for his own good and sometimes what he describes is incoherent The plot instead of thickening it goes thinner and thinner and by the end of the book it had dried out. Science Fiction Fantasy The Last Four things pdf I don t like the lot of them not after reading this The characters felt shallow and empty with no feelings whatsoever and while I forgave them in the first book for being this way I did because they were all their lives grown to a certain way of life but even after so long out there they still remain cold and soulless. The Last Four Things epubs I don t really know if I m going to read the next book Maybe if I did read it I d do it for closure rather than interest 0718155211 c2011 From Hero to zero considering how much I enjoyed the first book I did not find this to be epic which is how it is described by the publisher By the author s own admission this story contains many acts of righteous larceny culling distorting and summarising some well known historical events and personalities While I felt that he got away with it in the first book this second book was a real mish mash cobbled loosely together see what I mean I actually hated this bookdisappointed and aggrieved By using all the names of known places etc it went from a quiddity to painful This was the last place I expected to read about the Boer War but yes it appears and the Boers have turned into Folk from Die Volk I am guessing The Last Four Things referred to in the title are Death Judgement Heaven and Hell Nothing seems to happen in this book other than a lot of death some meaningful and others not so much Yes wait for the quip that is just waiting to be used Hell was starting the book and Heaven was finally finishing it and accepting that this was just a duffer I don t think that there is even a plot just a chance for the author to link cleverly a whole lot of random stuff Hated it and won t bother with the 3rd Boo Hoo I want my money back 0718155211 If anything it was only marginally better than the first book In other words still completely horrible to read The Last Four Things was a confusing mess of random turn of events spurred on by the whims of characters who themselves don t know what they want to do If the plot wasn t being predictable as hell it was being entirely random kind of like a retard wandering around a well known paved road and then deciding in his little mad head to go off the path into the unknown. Science Fiction Fantasy The Last Four things remembered 4 The random mixing of names and places from the Real World ours into this imaginary universe serves only to heighten the sense of confusion one gets when reading this novel 5 The immaturity of the main character Thomas Cale was pretty much the death knell that sunk the book How can such a blood thirsty person and a genius at military warfare in his late teens still act like the 12 year old acolyte he was in the first book Surely all the blood and gore flowing as a result of his actions planning would have made him far wiser and mature But no it seems like he regressed into the child like and immature little brat that author wants him to be. The Last Four Things epub reader Overall the this is one of the worst books I ve read in all my life The first was pure shit The second only marginally better as if putting a cherry on top of the pile of shit would somehow make it better 0718155211

The Last Four Things (The Left Hand of God, #2) By Paul Hoffman

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, The Last Four Things epubs Guess I m reading the third one despite the lack of that something How does that equation add up 0718155211 Ora portanto resumindo o livro numa palavra nhe, The Last Four Things epub reader 3 The motivations and actions of some of the primary characters are as fluid as water and just as random.The characters.1 The battles were short underwhelming and overly pathetic.2 The interactions between characters were shallow and dull