Westchester Station [Kindle Edition]

Patrick Welch (Author)

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Product Description

I, Robert Winstead, was brought here by someone I did not know for some purpose I had yet to discover. But I also knew that only by fulfilling that purpose would I be allowed to leave...assuming I survived the journey. Somewhere among the hallways and denizens of this haunted environment I would find the answer. I had to.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 332 KB
• Print Length: 140 pages
• Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks (November 6, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00107M3WU
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #829,935 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't miss WESTCHESTER STATION, February 25, 2003

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Barry R. Hunter "Baryon" (Rome, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Westchester Station (Paperback)

Here's a terrific story about the decisions a man must make that applies to life as well as the assorted group of people he meets from different places and different times. This is a well-written, intelligent book. Don't let this one pass you by.

4.0 out of 5 stars And interesting meeting with creatures of myth, February 5, 2006

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Archren (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Westchester Station (Paperback)

"Westchester Station" is a short and interesting story. Robert Winstead, finding himself trapped at O'Hare station due to weather, takes a cab to Westchester Station, hoping to find a way to Schnectady. Instead he finds himself in a station that exists intertimentionally. In his time there he meets figures from life and from mythology including aliens, a minotaur, an artist, a huckster and many more.

The novel progresses in vignettes, each scene dealing with the hero's interactions with a particular person or place in the station. In each scene, more about the station is revealed. Problems are solved, obstacles are overcome. It reads quickly and has some humorous bits as well as more serious and thought-provoking ones.

The only problem with this book as such is that the whole story seems in the end to lack much of a point. The character growth that should usually be the center of a book like this isn't really in the foreground, and doesn't even really seem to take place. So in the end you look back on a series of interesting things that don't seem to add up to much. Which is fine, but in comparison to works like "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman (to which it is somewhat similar in concept, if not in atmosphere), it seems to be lacking something. Not that it isn't interesting and entertaining, just that the plot seems to meander and then stop.