A Bizarre journey into the imagination fascinates the souls creative desires or "A Hundred Thousand Worlds" is a boring blizzard of lame characters caught between fantasy and fact, you be the judge.
I'm not giving this June 28 novel a rating, I was fascinated and bored at the same time, the duality of my opinion is too mixed to praise or pan Bob Proehl's book.
Valerie Torrey drives across country with her 9-year-old son Alex to reunite him with his not so well adjusted father to say the least, but a fellow still worthy of being with his son. While driving from New York to Los Angeles, their world goes back and forth from scientific fantasy to reality.
"A Hundred Thousand Worlds" mixes fantasy and real emotions well. Hitting the open road in a car, then a van and then arriving in New York on a train leaves the reader in mystery.
While in the company of a comic book illustrator who draws dreams and a fascinating female comic book writer, Alex and his mom Val also mix company in their travels with boring comic book characters and others found only in crazy dreams and weird stories.
Why Val and her son didn't take advantage of time travel is a mystery to me? Non of the people in the story had a real gripping appeal to me, but the novel realistically tells the tale of a single mom who loves and wants only the best for her young son. The ending was the beginning or was it the end?
