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    Numenon
    Numenon
    Numenon
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    Numenon

    By Sandy Nathan

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    NUMENON is superbly written, and beautifully weaves a treasure-trove of spiritual and intellectual wisdom into the story. I am totally enthralled. Where's the sequel? ----ILENE DILLON, MSW. Host, Full Power Living

    FIVE STARS! A fantasy set in the real world to draw readers in and never let them go, NUMENON is highly recommended to readers seeking modern fiction with fantastical elements. -- MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

    The collision of commerce and spirit, the world's richest man and an ancient Native American shaman, a global corporation larger than any other and the quiet strength at the core of the natural world this is thriller and metaphor and life lesson in the hands of a writer who has journey'd through both worlds. --GERALD DiPEGO Screenwriter, Phenomenon
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    Head of Numenon, the huge corporation he founded, Will Duane was the richest man on the planet. Still in his prime at 63, he had the looks, the women, and the money to be on top of the world.

    But a force he could not identify pursued Will. A dark and destructive power lurked, ready to overpower him.

    The stalker.

    Driven by his need to win back the love of a mysterious woman, Will takes his executives to he Meeting, a spiritual retreat in the New Mexico desert. His caravan of five luxurious RVs makes its way through the wilderness to the Mogollon Bowl.

    On this Native American sacred land, the ancient and ageless shaman known as Grandfather will lead the retreat. As Will and his ream progress toward the site, the caravan becomes stalled and the stalker strikes.

    Out of a horrifying attack, a new possibility is born ... and evil takes a new form.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandy Nathan
    Release dateOct 22, 2009
    ISBN9780976280934
    Numenon
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    Sandy Nathan

    I was a princess, for a while. My parents overcame their early poverty by becoming very successful. As a kid, I showed horses and water-skied behind my dad's red-hot ski boat. My life as a princess ended when a drunk driver ran into my father head-on in 1964, killing him.Not instantly, though. My dad's death was the stuff of horror movies and plunged my family into years of darkness.My old life vanished. I lived at a below poverty level income for a while. What happened in the following decades opened my eyes. I've seen and lived the over-privileged existence I describe in the Bloodsong Series. I've seen how it can warp those who are lost in it. I've seen how the power of money can mask mental illness and allow evil to ruin lives.Want to know why a San Francisco-born, Silicon Valley-raised woman is obsessed with Native Americans? After I'd drafted a few thousand pages of the Bloodsong books, I had this giant Ahah! At least half of the characters were Native Americans. Why? I don't think I'd ever seen an Indian.I realized that they had lived the lite version of what happened to Native Americans. They had the kingdom--the entire continent--and lost it. I knew how that felt. They were treated abominably for centuries, and had the worst abuse hurled at them. I know about that too.My writing has a bite. My life has had a bite. Recovering from what happened to me took many years. And I have recovered. What was legitimately mine came back to me, along with the fruit of my own labor.Now for my "regular bio": I've been in school a very long time and have two advanced degrees. I've had prestigious careers. My writing has won thirty national awards. Several of my books are Amazon Bestsellers. I'm very happily married; my husband and I have been together forty-two years. I have three grown children and two grandchildren. We live on our California horse ranch and love it. This year, I got a mule and adore her. My riding life has been extended by my long-eared friend, Annie.

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    • 2/5
      It was ok. I was intrigued by the description of the book, but in the end it turned out to be the black/white, god/devil same old boring dichotomy. There were flaws that kept jarring me out of the story, before I realized the dichotomous nature, but they hinted at it. I was uneasy about where the story would lead, from early on. But the characterization kept me guessing, so I continued reading. I almost put it down somewhere past the half-way point when it used yet another character to harp on a topic it had already beaten me over the head with. Of which there are more than one in the tale. I was all, "Oh no, not again...? Really?"Spiritual content? Barely. I just couldn't buy an elderly, powerful, oh-so-spiritual shaman who still carried acute pain from childhood that he couldn't even let himself think about. You don't get that far in your spiritual growth, not to mention regular old life, without dealing with your stuff, and becoming strong and learning to let things roll off you (or digest & integrate), because you see the true nature of things, or time eases the pain. Not to mention the judgmental lack of insight about drugs and sex. *eyeroll* These Indians were too Christian for me.For all that, it did have some creative explanations and some storytelling flair. The book was a loooong build-up, and then an odd cliffhanger ending. I'm undecided on whether I want to read the next book or not.
    • 3/5
      I really enjoyed the book, this is really 3 1/2 stars. The story was engaging and presented many concepts, most I agreed with and some I did not but gave me pause, which was all good. Toward the end there were many typos which began to distract, and the end was... well, not an ending. It felt as if a resolution had been promised but I did not feel as if even a preliminary awakening had been resolved. It was as if this book was rushed to publication - many characters were left stranded. What happened to them? It was noted that the book was really part one of two, which I didn't mind, but it had been implied that book two was written. I would probably read book two but perhaps would not be interested several years hence. That being said, the storyline was good, the two main characters intriguing. The Corporate type was conflicted though occasionally not believably so, the Shaman well-conceived, modern and believable - a pretty tricky feat the author pulled off fairly well. All in all an enjoyable first read on my new Kindle

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