The Seed – Dan Thomas

Okay, by now your probably wondering if I ever met a book I didn’t like. I’ll admit that I’m not that hard to please, but I do have limits. This one is bad. Only the relative shortness enabled me to get through it. Although I have to admit it did arouse in me some curiosity as to just how bad it could get. I just bombed the NaNoWriMo event this year. It’s a challange to write a fifty thousand word novel during the month of November. I got about twenty thousand words into it and I just couldn’t continue. I didn’t like the direction I had steered the story my main character was completely one dimensional and on top of all that I had written the story into a preposterous state. I should have barrelled through though because if I had just managed to finish it I still would have had a better novel than this steaming pile of wasted pulp. This abomination was written in the late sixties. I think the author picked up a couple of pop culture magazines, made a list of buzzwords and strung together a series of events linking them all together. It’s like the author was ticking off a checklist as he wrote each chapter, computers, check, swinging parties, check, psychics, check, witches covens, check, lesbians, check, hypnosis, check, hallucinogenic drugs, check, all wrapped up with a ridiculous ending. Actually as I’m sitting her this book might actually make a funny as hell movie about how stupid a lot of the bullshit that flowered in the sixties actually was. I bet I could option this heap for pennies. As long as the author didn’t see this that is.

No link, I couldn’t find it on Amazon.