First Dimension eBook Gregory A Kompes
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As the Whispering Pines' school year ends, Bobby Brown, almost 13, has been saving his paper route tips for one special thing, The New InterPolar Radio. Bobby is surprised when one of his customers, Mrs. Andrews, gives him a radio and their garden gnome, as partial payment for lawn care. The Andrews will be gone—long gone—leaving their home for the First Dimension, an alternative universe. And the gnome? He talks.
The idyllic hamlet is plagued by tears in the space/time continuum. Some residents move through them as a parlor game and even use them to commute to work. This game becomes serious as more tears randomly appear around town. One wrong step and you're in the First Dimension; once there, you can rarely get out.
First Dimension eBook Gregory A Kompes
This is a five-star book that I've marked down to four. I'll explain later."First Dimension" is the story of Bobby (about to turn thirteen) and his experiences in a town full of rips in the space-time continuum that allows people to move between dimensions. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes not. Some people come back, some people can't - they're either held captive, exit in some remote place (such as the mountains of Peru), where they perish on their attempted journey home, or end up driving through the plate glass window of an electronics shop after disappearing into a tear on a highway in Boca Raton.
Bobby is, apparently, the one chosen to liberate the captives, to pass into the First Dimension and return victorious - perhaps. "First Dimension" is the story of that journey, and the journey to understand why the journey is necessary.
Bobby, like many of the other characters, is extremely well-drawn. He's an authentic teenager, one who is first discovering who he is (and who he's meant to be), in the throes of becoming sexually aware, curious about anything and everything. His parents are about to go through divorce (though he doesn't know it), there's local bullies, and a very best friend, Ben, who may or may not be the object of his youthful sexual fantasies - as well as several hot teen girls.
This is not, per se, a gay-themed book. There is a wonderful out gay character (Bill) who owns the electronics store from which Bobby buys the Polar Radio that serves as a window into other dimensions, a huge and well-trained dog (Misty) whom he's babysitting while his teacher, Steve Arland, is off on his Summer vacation, a religious wife-beater, a Tarot-card reader and a host of other colorful characters. The only "gay" thing is a fleeting reference to Bobby and Ben wanking behind a barn, and the memory of that moment that comes back to Bobby just as he's about to climax (foreshadowing?).
"First Dimension" is, in reality, a really inventive paranormal thriller. No one knows (not even the reader, at the end of the book), what the whole captive thing is about, just that Bobby had to rescue those people in the First Dimension, and (it's not really a spoiler, just an inevitability) how he does it.
The book, like all of Mr. Kompes' books, is extraordinarily well-written, paced propulsively, inventive and unique. He is a truly remarkable writer.
However, there is a major caveat to all that praise. Like his other books, this one is rife with editorial problems - repeated misspellings, wrong words, even some incomprehensible sentences and sentence fragments. Someone should let him know that you can "waive" your rights, but not your hand. That has to be "waved". Grasses cannot "waive" in the wind. One cannot "loose" one's mind, nor can a hopeless person be a "looser". You "lose" your mind and you may, or may not, also be a "loser". A few word choices are absolutely baffling: in once scene, in a description of the furniture in a small, modest cottage, Mr. Kompes states that its "small paddock" was covered with a comforter. It must be a hell of a comforter to cover a fenced-in meadow in which animals are left to roam! Imagine horses and cows and goats roaming inside a small cottage under such a comforter! Repeatedly, worn-out things are "warn out" and the author seems to have a bit of a fetish for replacing "a" with "ai" as in "he opened the gait". But one of my all-time favorites was "a shinny new ten-speed". I suspect any thirteen-year-old would much prefer a "shiny" new ten-speed bicycle. Often, "there and "their" get a bit of rough treatment, such as "we're all heading their in our own time", "are their fault lines?" and "they're bodies were discovered...".
Even after finishing the entire book, there are sentences that still leave me clueless, such as "I still love you too, Steve words close and quiet". There doesn't seem to be a verb in that sentence.
Plus there are two, apparently obligatory, recurring errors that seem to be endemic - the Ebola of writers of gay fiction. It seems that two things happen the moment an author decides to write a gay novel: 1) their apostrophes run amok and 2) they regularly refer to tight things as "taught" instead of "taut". Mr. Kompes does not escape the curse. Wrong words abound. One character throws his dirty clothes down the "laundry shoot". Isn't shooting laundry a bit extreme when a "chute" would serve the purpose better? And having a wild childhood does not result in a "sorted" past, but a "sordid" one.
I know, I have gone on too long with this complaint, but honestly, about halfway through this book (54% on my Kindle), the language itself seemed to fall apart, leading to an annoying challenge to stay in the story and, at times, figure out what the hell the author meant. I love to read. I love well-written stories (and this is definitely one), but I abhor having to deal with junior-high-school grammar and spelling mistakes. It's so hard to stay involved in a character or story while you're constantly being ripped out of your imagination by pathetic and embarrassing typos, wrong words, and all the other potholes the author left in the progress of the story.
I might have given this story five stars - for originality and engagement, if nothing else. Unfortunately, it seems the only way to get an author's attention is to send them a strong message to stop insulting their readers by releasing a rough draft in place of a polished, finished work of art.
I don't know whether Mr. Kompes just has incompetent editors, or just doesn't read the final edited copy, himself. But, in either case, it's his book, and his name is on it. It's his problem to fix.
If you can wade through the embarrassing errors, there's a great story to be had here. As for me, I'm going to take a temporary vacation from Mr. Kompes, until he gets his act together. This is the third book by Mr. Kompes (who holds degrees both literature and education) I've read in the last couple of months that was seriously flawed by inexcusable editing. I need a rest.
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First Dimension eBook Gregory A Kompes Reviews
This is a five-star book that I've marked down to four. I'll explain later.
"First Dimension" is the story of Bobby (about to turn thirteen) and his experiences in a town full of rips in the space-time continuum that allows people to move between dimensions. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes not. Some people come back, some people can't - they're either held captive, exit in some remote place (such as the mountains of Peru), where they perish on their attempted journey home, or end up driving through the plate glass window of an electronics shop after disappearing into a tear on a highway in Boca Raton.
Bobby is, apparently, the one chosen to liberate the captives, to pass into the First Dimension and return victorious - perhaps. "First Dimension" is the story of that journey, and the journey to understand why the journey is necessary.
Bobby, like many of the other characters, is extremely well-drawn. He's an authentic teenager, one who is first discovering who he is (and who he's meant to be), in the throes of becoming sexually aware, curious about anything and everything. His parents are about to go through divorce (though he doesn't know it), there's local bullies, and a very best friend, Ben, who may or may not be the object of his youthful sexual fantasies - as well as several hot teen girls.
This is not, per se, a gay-themed book. There is a wonderful out gay character (Bill) who owns the electronics store from which Bobby buys the Polar Radio that serves as a window into other dimensions, a huge and well-trained dog (Misty) whom he's babysitting while his teacher, Steve Arland, is off on his Summer vacation, a religious wife-beater, a Tarot-card reader and a host of other colorful characters. The only "gay" thing is a fleeting reference to Bobby and Ben wanking behind a barn, and the memory of that moment that comes back to Bobby just as he's about to climax (foreshadowing?).
"First Dimension" is, in reality, a really inventive paranormal thriller. No one knows (not even the reader, at the end of the book), what the whole captive thing is about, just that Bobby had to rescue those people in the First Dimension, and (it's not really a spoiler, just an inevitability) how he does it.
The book, like all of Mr. Kompes' books, is extraordinarily well-written, paced propulsively, inventive and unique. He is a truly remarkable writer.
However, there is a major caveat to all that praise. Like his other books, this one is rife with editorial problems - repeated misspellings, wrong words, even some incomprehensible sentences and sentence fragments. Someone should let him know that you can "waive" your rights, but not your hand. That has to be "waved". Grasses cannot "waive" in the wind. One cannot "loose" one's mind, nor can a hopeless person be a "looser". You "lose" your mind and you may, or may not, also be a "loser". A few word choices are absolutely baffling in once scene, in a description of the furniture in a small, modest cottage, Mr. Kompes states that its "small paddock" was covered with a comforter. It must be a hell of a comforter to cover a fenced-in meadow in which animals are left to roam! Imagine horses and cows and goats roaming inside a small cottage under such a comforter! Repeatedly, worn-out things are "warn out" and the author seems to have a bit of a fetish for replacing "a" with "ai" as in "he opened the gait". But one of my all-time favorites was "a shinny new ten-speed". I suspect any thirteen-year-old would much prefer a "shiny" new ten-speed bicycle. Often, "there and "their" get a bit of rough treatment, such as "we're all heading their in our own time", "are their fault lines?" and "they're bodies were discovered...".
Even after finishing the entire book, there are sentences that still leave me clueless, such as "I still love you too, Steve words close and quiet". There doesn't seem to be a verb in that sentence.
Plus there are two, apparently obligatory, recurring errors that seem to be endemic - the Ebola of writers of gay fiction. It seems that two things happen the moment an author decides to write a gay novel 1) their apostrophes run amok and 2) they regularly refer to tight things as "taught" instead of "taut". Mr. Kompes does not escape the curse. Wrong words abound. One character throws his dirty clothes down the "laundry shoot". Isn't shooting laundry a bit extreme when a "chute" would serve the purpose better? And having a wild childhood does not result in a "sorted" past, but a "sordid" one.
I know, I have gone on too long with this complaint, but honestly, about halfway through this book (54% on my ), the language itself seemed to fall apart, leading to an annoying challenge to stay in the story and, at times, figure out what the hell the author meant. I love to read. I love well-written stories (and this is definitely one), but I abhor having to deal with junior-high-school grammar and spelling mistakes. It's so hard to stay involved in a character or story while you're constantly being ripped out of your imagination by pathetic and embarrassing typos, wrong words, and all the other potholes the author left in the progress of the story.
I might have given this story five stars - for originality and engagement, if nothing else. Unfortunately, it seems the only way to get an author's attention is to send them a strong message to stop insulting their readers by releasing a rough draft in place of a polished, finished work of art.
I don't know whether Mr. Kompes just has incompetent editors, or just doesn't read the final edited copy, himself. But, in either case, it's his book, and his name is on it. It's his problem to fix.
If you can wade through the embarrassing errors, there's a great story to be had here. As for me, I'm going to take a temporary vacation from Mr. Kompes, until he gets his act together. This is the third book by Mr. Kompes (who holds degrees both literature and education) I've read in the last couple of months that was seriously flawed by inexcusable editing. I need a rest.
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