Frank Cooper was at the end of his rope: no job, no friends, no family, no purpose. After an encounter with the mysterious Wiseman he was charged with an impossible task. Now as the newly rechristened Seeker, Frank will travel past the end of the Earth to the world Outside where he will meet all manner of fantastic people, visit exotic lands and ultimately journey into the heart of himself. The Long Road is an adventure that will fill your heart with joy, challange your beliefsand change the way you view yourself.
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Frank Cooper was at the end of his rope: no job, no friends, no family, no purpose.
After an encounter with the mysterious Wiseman he was charged with an impossible task. Now as the newly rechristened Seeker, Frank will travel past the end of the Earth to the world Outside where he will meet all manner of fantastic people, visit exotic lands and ultimately journey into the heart of himself. The Long Road is an adventure that will fill your heart with joy, challenge your beliefs...and change the way you view yourself.
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Mark Platter is a production artist living in St. Louis, Missouri. His main interests are self-improvement and spirituality, then using that to help heal the world. He also enjoys watching tevelvision and movies then brutally deconstructing them for sport.
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Footprints,
By Michael (Midwest) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Long Road : A Fable (Paperback)
The Long Road mixes wonderfully descriptive writing with a wonderfully witty, entertaining and challenging fable. The story's protagonist doesn't only make a Seeker of us all, but also suggests our search may already be complete as we look at the foot prints on our own long roads. It is a quick read that doesn't end when the last page is read leaving an indellible mark on the reader.
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A great book, I really enjoyed it.,
By kimberly maclean (st. louis, mo United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Long Road : A Fable (Paperback)
This book was very creative, quriky and fun to read. I highly suggest it.
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I couldn't put it down,
This review is from: The Long Road : A Fable (Paperback)
Lots of writers try to write fables, with Mythic Figures that embody Lessons for our Hero to Learn. But most of them fail. Either the different encounters with these Mythic Figures take on a certain sameness, becoming more and more pointless at the story drags on (think Harry Nilssen's "The Point"), or the lessons themselves are trite and too simplistic to mean anything (even though the Hero always acts like he or she has learned something life-changing)"The Long Road" easily skirts both of these pitfalls. Instead, the Hero is quite human, and has to struggle to earn the life-lessons of the book. And each Mythic Figure is unique, and fascinating in turn. The book never drags, never bogs down in its own metaphors, never thinks too highly of itself, and only rarely preaches. The surrealism of the landscape is a bit jarring at first, but you'll soon find yourself fully sucked into this realm of the fantastic. My hat is off to Mark, for succeeding so well with such a difficult literary form.
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