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I read early drafts of this book and although the writing is thick with imagery its an exciting tale of mystery and intrigue that I most solidly recommend. It's a thrilling adventure of love lost, a questioning of calling, a mysterious embezzlement and strange disappearances. I could not recommend this book more and am so glad I was able to help with the early chapters as even then I could see Mr. Seet's writing as having enormous potential!


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Meditation on SpaceTime Leonard Seet 9780967493725 Books Reviews

Father Lawrence is a complex protagonist an intellectual man of the cloth with an unwavering faith in God along with a daunting grasp of physics, logic and philosophy. In graceful exposition here is how the modest monk views himself "I am an imperfect man living in an imperfect world, trying to weave through the chaotic interactions of semi-causal events with linear logic, contradictory emotions, dialectic wisdom, and mortal integrity. On a dark night, I would search Polaris to guide me, but on life's journey only the internal North Star could lead to that instant when eternity freezes time." The priest's professional work draws him into a complex series of crimes committed by a preacher named Jim Whitfield who is the antagonist representing penultimate evil -- a devil who cannot be killed as he brings waves of misery through the epic deceit upon which he immensely profits. The battle beyond good and evil between the priest and the preacher reminded me of the battle between Crucifer and the teacher in Alexander Theroux's brilliant novel, "Darconville's Cat." In becoming invested in his drive to overcome this satanic force, Father Lawrence understands that his own inherent goodness and worth may become diminished and in the process he risks becoming more like the evil that he seeks to overcome. The priest yearns through a shift in the logic of space and time to discover an oasis in a grain of sand and so he finds himself dealing with life's grand existential questions on the shore of Thoreau's Walden Pond in Concord "I had gone to meditate at Walden Pond. That morning,under the rising sun, the water sang and danced to the rhythm of the morning breeze, and the ripples crisscrossed to weave a lattice of light. The clouds drifted in the stream of air. No one else to taint the birches or to corrupt the morning or to smear the lark's melody. I chanted Veni Creator Spiritus. Peace. Yet, a squall-laden peace. I wanted to search for peace, for kindness, for love in hypocrisy's rubbles but the desert had opened its arms. I would enter, not hesitating, and choke on the dry air and collapse under the sandstorm. And yet, among the sand dunes rippling into the horizon would sprout an oasis if I could endure and embrace the desert as it had me. These hands and feet of flesh and bone, this heart of fear and hunger, under the sun and in the sand, to seize the fleeting peace at Walden Pond." Leonard Seet's novel is about polar opposites and the dynamics of their conflicts and how these dynamics drive the laws of physics of a compelling, indeed rivetting, story line. Leonard Seet has left no literary devices on the table to narrate his tale people simply aren't who they appear to be, nothing is as it seems, what's done isn't always really done. As much as I enjoyed this story line of Leonard Seet, I was enthralled by the pure beauty of the writing among all the plot points. The scintillating writing is elegant, pure, grownup, originally cast, heartfelt, intelligent there are dozens of examples of this beauty and here a just a few of the dozen passages that I read and re-read because they were so artfully crafted. Check out this poetic rhapsody from the priest "Woe and joy to mortals who have tasted heaven, who have seen the dark night, who have encountered THOU. No eyes could gaze the midday sun; no ears could listen to the Siren's songs; no hands could touch the stove flame. But the brilliance, the sweetness, the warmth." And this brilliant bit of poetic science "Bright night surfing upon the crest of a probability wave by a Fourier transform reached Hilbert space the wilderness beyond existence the phantom space of mathematics the mirror world where a kick there would cause a jerk here through sinusoidal ripples in the uncertainty between yes and no space-time emerged from nothing to exist for a million years before returning to the void for another eternity. In the horizon of the next galaxy a positron and an electron mated and gave birth in annihilation to twin photons streaking at the speed of light toward opposite infinities to reencounter at the other pole of the space-time hydrosphere birth life decay death the cosmic cycle beyond space-time beyond matter-energy beyond I-thou beyond Alpha and Omega." The writing is simply breath-taking Seet gives you credit for being a thinking person, a serious reader, a person of substance and high intelligence. As a Bostonian I revelled in the finely wrought stagecraft of the settings there. This literary novel is layered so that it can be enjoyed by those who simply want a good story and yet it satisfies those who want a book written poetically with substance and a style that is challenging and intellectualy complex enough to open new intellectual avenues. If you prefer intelligently crafted novels, then do yourself a favor and by all means read this unforgetable novel by Leonard Seet the writing is to die for.
Father Lawrence is too good for this world. Or, Father Lawrence is too high-minded for this world. Or, Father Lawrence is too unearthly for this world. Let the individual reader decide. Myself, I think his troubles began when he stepped off the grounds of the Massachusetts monastery and headed for Tennessee-Gilead to be exact, where no Balm was to be found. Whichever, Gilead certainly opened his mind, expanded his horizons, exposed him.to dishonesty and danger. Father Lawrence really should have kept to his monastic meditations.

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The idea of a monk/physicist drew me in, and I stayed the course for laughs and to chronicle all the grammatical and syntactical errors, the absurdities, and the sheer badness of the book.
A wonderfully paced and crafted literary novel with memorable characters. Seet's attention to detail when describing setting or action is dead on. A rich, intricately plotted story.
It takes thinking to understand the story line but it is full of drama. However, it requires good vocabrary and certain reading skills.
I don't like writing negative reviews, *but* this book is in *major* need of editorial cleanup. Perhaps it was never edited. There are errors all over the place, including spelling errors in characters' names. The book is poorly researched. The author writes about a Catholic monk as his main character, and a priest as a supporting character, but the writing makes it plainly evident that the author did not do his research on what Catholicism (or even Christianity) teaches. The characters act in ways that are entirely out of line with the way that an actual priest or religious brother would act (for example, reminiscing about driving a woman to get an abortion with no concern over the gravity of such a matter, or a priest who wants to talk over the confession of a penitent with someone else). Other characters are poorly presented and inconsistent. Dialogue is difficult to follow and characters are inconsistent. Perhaps there is a good plot line in there - but the writing is too messy and unpolished to follow. This book should not have been published without a lot of extra editing and revision. I was excited about the title and the topic, but strongly disappointed by the book when it arrived.
I read early drafts of this book and although the writing is thick with imagery its an exciting tale of mystery and intrigue that I most solidly recommend. It's a thrilling adventure of love lost, a questioning of calling, a mysterious embezzlement and strange disappearances. I could not recommend this book more and am so glad I was able to help with the early chapters as even then I could see Mr. Seet's writing as having enormous potential!