The Arcturus Man eBook John Strauchs
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Jared Siemels is unlike any other man or woman living today. Born in Latvia in 1981, his birth was a massive leap in human evolution, a leap that had not previously occurred for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. He is as different from modern humans as they are from prehistoric man. Far advanced physically and mentally, he is desperate to be ordinary. And despite his great intellect, or because of it, he has no innate understanding of love, faith, or morality. It is a story about being different in a world that demands sameness. What does it mean to be human?
Ripped away from his family, at the age of six Jared is brought to America and enrolled in a special program for gifted children at M.I.T. After coming of age, he leads a lonely and increasingly tormented life on his island home off the coast of Maine. His is a reclusive and secret world. A megagenius, his royalties from his many inventions have made him a rich man but he finds little comfort in his wealth until he meets Jenny, a young marine biology doctoral candidate. Struggling to love him and hoping to understand him, she is drawn into the perverse maelstrom of his immense genius. Her rival is a perfect cyber-woman created by Jared.
There are powerful and dangerous men who fear Jared and want to destroy the products of his brilliant mind. His most recent discovery could deny terrorists their most potent weapons. Assassins are sent to kill Jared. He and Jenny are pursued relentlessly as they travel to the jungles of Panama to elude and then face their relentless tormentors.
The Arcturus Man eBook John Strauchs
The underpinning concept is that Jared is a further evolutionary step. Compared with other people, he has greatly advanced intellect, he is stronger and better in all ways physically. He also seems to be a lonely depressed psychopath. He meets Jenny, and becomes entangled with her, while at the same time, a group of people, for various reasons, want him killed. There is the makings of a really great story here. The concept is original, the plot structure is quite good and the action scenes are reasonably well written. Unfortunately, for various reasons, I cannot recommend this book in its current form.One problem that may not worry many readers lies in the portrayal of Jared. It is extremely difficult to write about a superior intelligence, and the author runs into trouble by confusing extreme intelligence with enhanced ability to learn and remember. He does say that Jared has invented a number of things, from which he derives a great income, but far too often he makes his point by having Jared recite off a lot of information to Jenny. The author wants us to see this as being very irritating to Jenny, which is fine, but irritating the reader is less so. Worse than that, not all the facts are correct, which leaves you wondering about the rest. As an example, he gives an explanation as to why the two sides of a boat are called port and starboard. First, the explanation is not quite right (originally it was starboard and larboard, but that had to be changed because in emergencies they sound too much the same) and second, he has them around the wrong way; starboard is the right side. Mistakes like that devalue the rest.
The writing does not flow, and the reason for this seems to be that the author dislikes clauses, and even descriptive phrases. The net result is that at times every point is placed in a separate short sentence. I do not recall seeing the word "which" anywhere (I am not saying there is no such use, but they are rare) Besides a shortage of non-defining clauses, there are not enough defining ones either. There are very odd word usages (such as lien instead of lean) and while I am usually very tolerant of proof-reading errors (everyone makes them, and I refuse to condemn a few on that ground) these occur too frequently. Formatting and compiling is very substandard. I even found one word split into two paragraphs, paragraphs often end with half a sentence, the convention of stating a new paragraph with a new speaker is frequently not followed, and coupled with that, sometimes the quotation marks are missing, so you are unsure who is speaking.
Basically, this book badly needs extensive editing, at all levels, and far more attention to formatting. The pity is, if this were more competently produced, an award of five stars could have been given. I strongly recommend that the author pulls this version back and fixes these production problems.
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The Arcturus Man eBook John Strauchs Reviews
A Great Story ! I enjoyed the characters and fast pace action. I read a lot of science fiction books and many seem to just blend in the back of my mind. This story I remember. I recommend highly
I am almost finished with this book and have found it to be a good read. it has just enough substance to keep your interest and meat to keep you wanting to know more.
It was a great read, until the end. Now I'm frustrated and disappointed. Thank You John Strauchs!!! Goodness how could you end it like that?!?!? Where's part 2?
The plot line was good, but the editing for format sucked. Missing words, lines, etc.
This was one of those books that I just didn't want to end. The story was reasonable compelling, but the author's ability to give details about some of the plot twists, showing his knowledge of science and medicine made this such a though-provoking read. I would read anything that this author writes, hoping for more of this calibre...
If this were a hard copy book or on a tablet I would have deleted it by the end of the first chapter. But I have it on my phone, and the action is - just- enough to get over the negative issues when reading it on a small screen while waiting in line or eating a sandwich. Worth it for free but even at $.99 it would have been overpriced.
The book has an intriguing story line, although the author definitely misses the mark on his suppositions of how a super intellectual would think or reason. He occasionally forgets his own guidelines for the main character, but overall it is an intriguing supposition. The editing, however, will leave you pulling your hair. Entire sentences are split and spliced throughout different parts of the page, so reading can get rather choppy. Had the editing been of a better caliber, the book would have received another star.
The underpinning concept is that Jared is a further evolutionary step. Compared with other people, he has greatly advanced intellect, he is stronger and better in all ways physically. He also seems to be a lonely depressed psychopath. He meets Jenny, and becomes entangled with her, while at the same time, a group of people, for various reasons, want him killed. There is the makings of a really great story here. The concept is original, the plot structure is quite good and the action scenes are reasonably well written. Unfortunately, for various reasons, I cannot recommend this book in its current form.
One problem that may not worry many readers lies in the portrayal of Jared. It is extremely difficult to write about a superior intelligence, and the author runs into trouble by confusing extreme intelligence with enhanced ability to learn and remember. He does say that Jared has invented a number of things, from which he derives a great income, but far too often he makes his point by having Jared recite off a lot of information to Jenny. The author wants us to see this as being very irritating to Jenny, which is fine, but irritating the reader is less so. Worse than that, not all the facts are correct, which leaves you wondering about the rest. As an example, he gives an explanation as to why the two sides of a boat are called port and starboard. First, the explanation is not quite right (originally it was starboard and larboard, but that had to be changed because in emergencies they sound too much the same) and second, he has them around the wrong way; starboard is the right side. Mistakes like that devalue the rest.
The writing does not flow, and the reason for this seems to be that the author dislikes clauses, and even descriptive phrases. The net result is that at times every point is placed in a separate short sentence. I do not recall seeing the word "which" anywhere (I am not saying there is no such use, but they are rare) Besides a shortage of non-defining clauses, there are not enough defining ones either. There are very odd word usages (such as lien instead of lean) and while I am usually very tolerant of proof-reading errors (everyone makes them, and I refuse to condemn a few on that ground) these occur too frequently. Formatting and compiling is very substandard. I even found one word split into two paragraphs, paragraphs often end with half a sentence, the convention of stating a new paragraph with a new speaker is frequently not followed, and coupled with that, sometimes the quotation marks are missing, so you are unsure who is speaking.
Basically, this book badly needs extensive editing, at all levels, and far more attention to formatting. The pity is, if this were more competently produced, an award of five stars could have been given. I strongly recommend that the author pulls this version back and fixes these production problems.
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