The ghosts you know.
I finished Greg Bear's Dead Lines and I have to say that I admire his focus. Greg Bear takes a horror scenario with all the individual and world-wide focus of a King novel and writes what is essential to his protagonist. A protagonist, whose life has been composed of easy choices, faces some of the most difficult decisions of his life. To let his dead daughter go. To face unearthly horrors. To look at his life with clarity and yet continue it with charm and grace and courage.
And I have to admire Greg Bear's style and pace. Some very very nice sentence structure can be found in the action scenes. Quickly paced, plot elements blend and combine to create and answer questions about being human, about our humanity. Questions about soul and questions about ghosts and questions about life and living it the best we can.
Written and posted by Pam McNew
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