<![CDATA[In the Courts of the Sun]]>

false <![CDATA[In the Courts of the Sun]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1229030600m/4135826.jpg 4135826 3 A mind-bending, time-bending, zeitgeist-defining novel about the days leading up to December 21, 2012—the day the Maya predicted the world would end December 21, 2012. The day time stops. Jed DeLanda, a descendant of the Maya living in the year 2012, is a math prodigy who spends his time playing Go against his computer and raking in profits from online trading. (His secret weapon? A Mayan divination game—once used for predicting corn-harvest cycles, now proving very useful in predicting corn futures—that his mother taught him.) But Jed’s life is thrown into chaos when his former mentor, the game theorist Taro, and a mysterious woman named Marena Park, invite him to give his opinion on a newly discovered Mayan codex. Marena and Taro are looking for a volunteer to travel back to 664 AD to learn more about a “sacrifice game” described in the codex. Jed leaps at the chance, and soon scientists are replicating his brain waves and sending them through a wormhole, straight into the mind of a Mayan king… Only something goes wrong. Instead of becoming a king, Jed arrives inside a ballplayer named Chacal who is seconds away from throwing himself down the temple steps as a human sacrifice. If Jed can live through the next few minutes, he might just save the world. Bringing to mind Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon and Gary Jennings’s Aztec, yet entirely unique, In the Courts of the Sun takes you from the distant past to the near future in a brilliant kaleidoscope of ideas. 4183036 book 5 3 2009 In the Courts of the Sun total:59|5:17|4:15|3:12|2:11|1:4| 59 207 170 34 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 05:47:43 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 05:59:56 -0700 2009 1
In the Courts of the Sun turned out to be a pretty good story set both in late 2012 and ancient Mesoamerica. The basic plot sounds convoluted, and it is: a Mayan divination...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 00:31:52 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 01:28:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 17:07:22 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 17:13:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 09:06:05 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 10:12:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 03 16:11:15 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 16:20:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:48:24 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:48:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 10:01:04 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 09:20:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 04 08:01:28 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 08:01:41 -0800 2009 According to the Mayan calendar, the world is going to end on December 12, 2012. The Warren Group is trying to use technology to figure out a way to stop the world from ending. In the end, will their work pay off or is hope beyond reach?

This is an exciting book that truthfully scar...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Oct 19 19:02:57 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 19:06:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 11:03:45 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 09:31:00 -0700 2009 The writing was appealing - very much as if you'd follow what a real person was thinking. It was very humerous, sometimes a little vulgar, but generally good. The main character was somewhat "special", neither one of the cool heros nor the us...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 22:29:04 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 23:30:29 -0700 2009
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I was really looking forward to something different than this book offered. I was looking for an incredible story that was intricate but because it was necessary. Unfo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 27 17:19:20 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 21:35:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 20:30:44 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 13:46:42 -0700 2009
The premise is wild and very intriguing, but the story is so violent (at times especially during the part of the story that takes place in 660AD among the Maya, it's a bit understandable), but add to that how crude and vulgar a lot of th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:39:59 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:46:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 20 09:11:35 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 09:15:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 21:47:13 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 12:32:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 12:41:35 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 17:18:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 16 19:56:34 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 19:57:57 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 06:51:06 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 06:52:44 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 20:34:33 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 20:36:42 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4135826