C. Sean McGee's Blog, page 14
September 9, 2013
Released - Coffee and Sugar (2nd Edition)
Coffee and Sugar (2nd Edition)
****Includes previously removed scenes deemed too offensive in the first edit****
This is the story of Joao, an uninspiring country boy who moves to a slum in the city with his drunken, violent, preacher father; The Bishop and falls for amiable prostitute named Charity.
Like life, the perfect drink should be bitter sweet and coffee is the resonance of existence in that; like the perfect coffee, life has many grains of bitter days; the type of days that might rot your stomach if they are all that you have; but, every now and then, one has a few sweet moments that make the tough days easier to digest, meaning one can take the learned lesson from life; the good and the bad and then strengthen their resolve and return in the morn with an eager thirst for more.
Access ePUB or MOBI direct download links here: http://cseanmcgee.blogspot.com.br/201...
or Read online via LoungeWindow(scribd)
http://pt.scribd.com/doc/166833022/Co...
****Includes previously removed scenes deemed too offensive in the first edit****
This is the story of Joao, an uninspiring country boy who moves to a slum in the city with his drunken, violent, preacher father; The Bishop and falls for amiable prostitute named Charity.
Like life, the perfect drink should be bitter sweet and coffee is the resonance of existence in that; like the perfect coffee, life has many grains of bitter days; the type of days that might rot your stomach if they are all that you have; but, every now and then, one has a few sweet moments that make the tough days easier to digest, meaning one can take the learned lesson from life; the good and the bad and then strengthen their resolve and return in the morn with an eager thirst for more.
Access ePUB or MOBI direct download links here: http://cseanmcgee.blogspot.com.br/201...
or Read online via LoungeWindow(scribd)
http://pt.scribd.com/doc/166833022/Co...
September 6, 2013
Coffee and Sugar (2nd Edition)
The more The Bishop screamed, the more excited the group got and the more riled were their senses, the more depraved was their violence,
Coffee and Sugar ₢2013 C. Sean McGee
I have returned a part of a story to where it belonged. Though one would prefer to look only at the finest threads that garb one's attire, sometimes, as a writer, i must give in to honesty and show, in utmost delicacy, the sediment of degeneracy that is the closeted and caged carnal veractity of each and every one of us. I hold no apoloigy for what i have written in this story. I hold lesser apology for how neatly and how poetic i give, this maniacal cancer unto you the reader.
I see thorugh your fancy threads, at those pesky hairs poking through. But that does not inspire me to dull them with a lack of appreciation.
I see fancy and merriment in the filth that you scrunch into the netehrs of your pockets and that your scourge form the crtacks of your teeth behind shielding hands.
I do not apology if the beauty I have basted for you, might have your threads untied. And so I return some things to where they belong.
Take Risk and Take Care,
C. Sean McGee
Coffee and Sugar ₢2013 C. Sean McGee
I have returned a part of a story to where it belonged. Though one would prefer to look only at the finest threads that garb one's attire, sometimes, as a writer, i must give in to honesty and show, in utmost delicacy, the sediment of degeneracy that is the closeted and caged carnal veractity of each and every one of us. I hold no apoloigy for what i have written in this story. I hold lesser apology for how neatly and how poetic i give, this maniacal cancer unto you the reader.
I see thorugh your fancy threads, at those pesky hairs poking through. But that does not inspire me to dull them with a lack of appreciation.
I see fancy and merriment in the filth that you scrunch into the netehrs of your pockets and that your scourge form the crtacks of your teeth behind shielding hands.
I do not apology if the beauty I have basted for you, might have your threads untied. And so I return some things to where they belong.
Take Risk and Take Care,
C. Sean McGee
September 5, 2013
Coffee and Sugar (2nd Edition)
Joao´s mother; a gargantuan woman, sat alone and unemotional on a wooden bench where behind her, the arid and barren land soliloquised the ravages of drought, its cant; invisible to his ear but the words to its poetic dismay were etched in the long, drawn and desiccated stare of his mother, a look that thirsted one of their hope and felicity.
Coffee and Sugar ₢2013 C. Sean McGee
2nd Edition Coming Soon - Includes a previously deleted polemic scene
Coffee and Sugar ₢2013 C. Sean McGee
2nd Edition Coming Soon - Includes a previously deleted polemic scene
September 4, 2013
Help
Olá Stalkers,
I need a moment's help making Amazon bring all of my ebooks to their correct $0.00 value. They only do so (as part of their price matching) if someone othe rthan myself requests. This can be done by openiong link 1 and selecting "Tell us about a lower price" in the book's information. Then insert link number 2 (the link for Coffee and Sugar from Barnes & Noble).
They are price matching 5 of my novels but I still need them to do this for Coffee and Sugar, Heaven is Full of Arseholes, Alex and The Gruff and Utopian Circus.
So help would be appreciated. It's not fair that people are bing charged for these books.
Link 1 (amazon): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BZGOR8O/r...
Link 2 (B&N): http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/coffe...
Thanks greatly.
Take Risk and Take Care,
C. Sean McGee
I need a moment's help making Amazon bring all of my ebooks to their correct $0.00 value. They only do so (as part of their price matching) if someone othe rthan myself requests. This can be done by openiong link 1 and selecting "Tell us about a lower price" in the book's information. Then insert link number 2 (the link for Coffee and Sugar from Barnes & Noble).
They are price matching 5 of my novels but I still need them to do this for Coffee and Sugar, Heaven is Full of Arseholes, Alex and The Gruff and Utopian Circus.
So help would be appreciated. It's not fair that people are bing charged for these books.
Link 1 (amazon): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BZGOR8O/r...
Link 2 (B&N): http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/coffe...
Thanks greatly.
Take Risk and Take Care,
C. Sean McGee
August 29, 2013
Utopian Circus (2nd Edition) Released
UTOPIAN CIRCUS (2nd Edition)RELEASED !!!!
WARNING: This book contains intricate and graphic philosophy.
Download ePub and Mobi - Direct Download via Box.com and Rapidshare or download torrrent files via The Pirate Bay
Coming Soon: Paperback and Deluxe PDF
http://cseanmcgee.blogspot.com.br/201...
UTOPIAN CIRCUS
Through the charred wreckage of one man’s philosophy, an adventure into conscious delusion and dark dystopian fantasy begins as the survivors of The Nest find themselves on three paths where each will endeavor to rein their conscious minds to grasp the philosophy of existence and abate the shackles of conscious Famine as they march onwards towards New Utopia.
On one path, Marcos, having woken naked and amnesic at the scorn of ancient women whose immortality derives from the wearing of young girl’s faces like decorative dresses; is chased through a dense wilderness for the face that he wears whilst drifting in and out of conscious Famine, giving a glimpse into The City that was, one of obligation and Infant Industries.
On the second path, in The Kingdom of the Hound, Ruff the dog is awoken to conscious debate, rationalizing and philosophizing with an ostentatious small Chihuahua called The Bitch Queen over the nature of unconditional love as he fights to save the lives of his human friends from being gamed by savage hounds and monolithic boars.
While on a third path, The Woman will unravel, through conscious delusion, the true extent of her repressions and her loveless abandon as a young girl; Safrine, through childish rhyme, is challenged by a creepy old man into a game of coloured cubes to save her two companions from the effect of The Famine.
CITY: A Literary Concerto Overview (A Rising Fall, Utopian Circus, iCannibal)
What sacrifice, to conceive a dream; when all you leave behind, is all you’ll ever be?
The City Concerto; through literary prose, answers one question: To what lengths would a father go and what horrible wrongs would he do, to teach a god how to love again?
The trilogy illustrates the human emancipation from three states of love; Eros, Philos and Agape as each is torn apart under the guise of well intention as humanity; now void of identity in the wake of a century of dehumanizing dependence and necessity upon industry and digital technology; has separated itself from the labour of its existence, aborting empathy and setting in place the death of mother nature. Yet, on the verge of extinction; mankind presses on; towards salvation; towards the city of light and sound; towards New Utopia
The City Trilogy approaches the concept of industrialized dehumanization by exploring current polemic states such as man’s empathetic and obsessive link to digital technology, branding, plastic surgery, social networking and a fear of nature which emulates in the current global controversy in the rise of unnecessary Caesarean births by production line hospitals. The story paints the ‘what ifs’ in the effect that such industrial dependence would play on the human genome; purporting life as an efficient production as opposed to a natural creation; that when nature is removed from the equation, what would happen if the industry stopped? Who would mother humanity?
WARNING: This book contains intricate and graphic philosophy.
Download ePub and Mobi - Direct Download via Box.com and Rapidshare or download torrrent files via The Pirate Bay
Coming Soon: Paperback and Deluxe PDF
http://cseanmcgee.blogspot.com.br/201...
UTOPIAN CIRCUS
Through the charred wreckage of one man’s philosophy, an adventure into conscious delusion and dark dystopian fantasy begins as the survivors of The Nest find themselves on three paths where each will endeavor to rein their conscious minds to grasp the philosophy of existence and abate the shackles of conscious Famine as they march onwards towards New Utopia.
On one path, Marcos, having woken naked and amnesic at the scorn of ancient women whose immortality derives from the wearing of young girl’s faces like decorative dresses; is chased through a dense wilderness for the face that he wears whilst drifting in and out of conscious Famine, giving a glimpse into The City that was, one of obligation and Infant Industries.
On the second path, in The Kingdom of the Hound, Ruff the dog is awoken to conscious debate, rationalizing and philosophizing with an ostentatious small Chihuahua called The Bitch Queen over the nature of unconditional love as he fights to save the lives of his human friends from being gamed by savage hounds and monolithic boars.
While on a third path, The Woman will unravel, through conscious delusion, the true extent of her repressions and her loveless abandon as a young girl; Safrine, through childish rhyme, is challenged by a creepy old man into a game of coloured cubes to save her two companions from the effect of The Famine.
CITY: A Literary Concerto Overview (A Rising Fall, Utopian Circus, iCannibal)
What sacrifice, to conceive a dream; when all you leave behind, is all you’ll ever be?
The City Concerto; through literary prose, answers one question: To what lengths would a father go and what horrible wrongs would he do, to teach a god how to love again?
The trilogy illustrates the human emancipation from three states of love; Eros, Philos and Agape as each is torn apart under the guise of well intention as humanity; now void of identity in the wake of a century of dehumanizing dependence and necessity upon industry and digital technology; has separated itself from the labour of its existence, aborting empathy and setting in place the death of mother nature. Yet, on the verge of extinction; mankind presses on; towards salvation; towards the city of light and sound; towards New Utopia
The City Trilogy approaches the concept of industrialized dehumanization by exploring current polemic states such as man’s empathetic and obsessive link to digital technology, branding, plastic surgery, social networking and a fear of nature which emulates in the current global controversy in the rise of unnecessary Caesarean births by production line hospitals. The story paints the ‘what ifs’ in the effect that such industrial dependence would play on the human genome; purporting life as an efficient production as opposed to a natural creation; that when nature is removed from the equation, what would happen if the industry stopped? Who would mother humanity?
August 25, 2013
Update
Expect Utopian Circus (2nd Edition) launched by this Friday at the latest.
I will be commencing an as yet untitled new story at its completion. It's a whimsical black comedy centred on neighbourly gossip, wash colths and serial killings; anything to fit right in.
I have been thinking about I, Cannibal (CITY b00k 111) in my mind these past days. It will be grand indeed. There is a lot to plan and plot for this all to come together. I am expecting it in itself will be 3 volumes in one or what i like to call, a philosophical headfuck. And my work will now be coming with a disclaimer to warn all those pop literature readers of the inntricacy and intellectual necessity of my jazz fiction pieces. I don't mean to sound arrogant. A cough sounds like a cough. But having one's book in a merket place means, those judging books by covers, mistake one's work for those McDonald's styled pop fiction pieces where plots can be summed up in three lines on the back cover of one's book and the reading of said novel, is only to satisy one's weakened expectations when said pop literature resembles the holy blurb.
****follow the beard*****
Take Risk and Take Care,
C. Sean McGee
I will be commencing an as yet untitled new story at its completion. It's a whimsical black comedy centred on neighbourly gossip, wash colths and serial killings; anything to fit right in.
I have been thinking about I, Cannibal (CITY b00k 111) in my mind these past days. It will be grand indeed. There is a lot to plan and plot for this all to come together. I am expecting it in itself will be 3 volumes in one or what i like to call, a philosophical headfuck. And my work will now be coming with a disclaimer to warn all those pop literature readers of the inntricacy and intellectual necessity of my jazz fiction pieces. I don't mean to sound arrogant. A cough sounds like a cough. But having one's book in a merket place means, those judging books by covers, mistake one's work for those McDonald's styled pop fiction pieces where plots can be summed up in three lines on the back cover of one's book and the reading of said novel, is only to satisy one's weakened expectations when said pop literature resembles the holy blurb.
****follow the beard*****
Take Risk and Take Care,
C. Sean McGee
August 24, 2013
Utopian Circus (2nd Edition)
COMING SOON:
Utopian Circus (2nd Edition)
CITY: A Literary Concerto b00k 011 Dystopian Fairy Tale
***intricate philosophy layered within bloodthirsty children's fantasy***
Fairy Tales for Adults
Warning: This book contains rich philosophy and will require readers to be consciously calculating and evaluating whilst engaging in the story.
Take Risk and Take Care,
C. Sean McGee
Utopian Circus (2nd Edition)
CITY: A Literary Concerto b00k 011 Dystopian Fairy Tale
***intricate philosophy layered within bloodthirsty children's fantasy***
Fairy Tales for Adults
Warning: This book contains rich philosophy and will require readers to be consciously calculating and evaluating whilst engaging in the story.
Take Risk and Take Care,
C. Sean McGee
August 17, 2013
A Rising Fall (2nd Edt) Released
A RISING FALL (2nd Edition) has been Released
Access Direct Download and Torrent Links Here:
http://cseanmcgee.blogspot.com.br/201...
A Rising Fall is the first book in a dystopian trilogy entitled City:aliteraryconcerto. The story starts ten years after the blackout as a group of humans struggling to fight off a conscious famine, try to re-learn empathy to save humanity in an old industrial assembly plant. In 3 days; feigned affection, deception and a black heart will take them further into the repression of their own fears in search of unconditional love.
The City Concerto through literary prose; answers one question: To what lengths would a father go and what horrible wrongs would he do, to teach a god how to love again?
Following the theme of a concerto, City is divided into three parts; A Rising Fall, Utopian Circus and I, Cannibal. Each book is then divided into three pieces and with A Rising Fall, each piece refers to a day; the three days leading to the fall of their city.
The trilogy illustrates the human emancipation from three states of love; Eros, Philos and Agape as each is torn apart under the guise of well intention as humanity; now void of identity in the wake of a century of dehumanising dependence and necessity upon industry and digital technology; has separated itself from the labour of its existence, aborting empathy and setting in place the death of mother nature. Yet, on the verge of extinction; mankind presses on; towards salvation; towards the city of light and sound; towards New Utopia.
The Re-release of A RISING FALL (CITY b00k 001)
This has been 8 months in the making, this reworking of the novel. I meant to do it sooner but i got distracting writing 8 more novels. It happens. Now I am in the process of re-editing the novels. In this case, a lot of changes were made creating more a more fluent reading experience. A lot of grammar fix ups, some things added and some tings removed. And all new artwork. The same will be done for b00k 011; UTOPIAN CIRCUS, which I will start editing next week.
Access Direct Download and Torrent Links Here:
http://cseanmcgee.blogspot.com.br/201...
A Rising Fall is the first book in a dystopian trilogy entitled City:aliteraryconcerto. The story starts ten years after the blackout as a group of humans struggling to fight off a conscious famine, try to re-learn empathy to save humanity in an old industrial assembly plant. In 3 days; feigned affection, deception and a black heart will take them further into the repression of their own fears in search of unconditional love.
The City Concerto through literary prose; answers one question: To what lengths would a father go and what horrible wrongs would he do, to teach a god how to love again?
Following the theme of a concerto, City is divided into three parts; A Rising Fall, Utopian Circus and I, Cannibal. Each book is then divided into three pieces and with A Rising Fall, each piece refers to a day; the three days leading to the fall of their city.
The trilogy illustrates the human emancipation from three states of love; Eros, Philos and Agape as each is torn apart under the guise of well intention as humanity; now void of identity in the wake of a century of dehumanising dependence and necessity upon industry and digital technology; has separated itself from the labour of its existence, aborting empathy and setting in place the death of mother nature. Yet, on the verge of extinction; mankind presses on; towards salvation; towards the city of light and sound; towards New Utopia.
The Re-release of A RISING FALL (CITY b00k 001)
This has been 8 months in the making, this reworking of the novel. I meant to do it sooner but i got distracting writing 8 more novels. It happens. Now I am in the process of re-editing the novels. In this case, a lot of changes were made creating more a more fluent reading experience. A lot of grammar fix ups, some things added and some tings removed. And all new artwork. The same will be done for b00k 011; UTOPIAN CIRCUS, which I will start editing next week.
August 16, 2013
August 14, 2013
Utopian Circus Review by Evie Kendal
C. Sean McGee’s Utopian Circus
A review by Evie Kendal
Utopian Circus is the second installment of the series CITY: a literary concerto by self-published author, C. Sean McGee. Like McGee’s other texts, this one is free to download on his website, with print copies available for sale. For a self-published book the quality of the binding, cover and paper is quite good and the font size and line spacing used makes the text easy to read. As such, it is worth purchasing the physical book. (I will confess that although I love the flexibility that e-reading affords, I still believe a hard copy book has a certain aura that an e-book can never duplicate…even a mass market paperback!)
Utopian Circus begins with two old ladies – and old here means very old – who are preparing to skin the body of a naked young man they discovered floating downstream in a river. When they cut open the black bag the body has been sealed in they are shocked to discover not only that the body is so young – “Less than a hundred?” – but also that the man is still alive. While this state of affairs does not change their goal of skinning him and wearing his “skin dress” it does make it rather difficult to achieve when he gets up and runs away into the bushes, taking their prized scalpel with him. At this point the ladies voice their concerns that “the gods” will be angry with them, as the necessity of “changing faces” is one of their rules. They believe such a perfect skin as this young man’s, one not ravaged by the “famine” which is attacking the minds and bodies of the populace, must have been a gift or a message from the gods. Afraid of the ramifications of their failure, the women pursue the escaped young man.
The idea of skinning people and wearing their faces appears very briefly at the end of Book 1 of the series,AR1S1NGFALL, and information from this previous book is assumed knowledge in Utopian Circus. Both books open with unusual scenes that do not completely make sense at the start of the novel, but which come to be explained through a gradual revealing of the elements of the dystopian fictional world. The sense of mystery was perhaps a little more intense at the beginning of AR1S1NGFALL, however it is reasonable to expect that a sequel will not be quite so alienating for the reader (or “cognitively estranging” as Darko Suvin would have it) as a first novel.
Nevertheless, there is plenty to keep the reader guessing and there are only a few instances in the text where exposition is excessive.
Alongside the story of the immortal “Elemental Ladies” (or “Facers”) the narrative picks up from whereAR1S1NGFALL left off and follows several characters from The Nest, the indoctrination facility that served as the setting for Book 1. However, there is a significant difference in flavour between these installments, withAR1S1NGFALL having a 1940’s classic science fiction dystopia feel, while Utopian Circus reads very much like a Grimm’s fairy tale (complete with evil queens and disturbing violence).
Comparing the technical elements of both books, while there are fewer typographical errors and better overall presentation in Utopian Circus, grammar and punctuation are still an issue.
Due to the presence of various adult themes, Utopian Circus is obviously unsuitable for children, however it is also unlikely to appeal to squeamish adults. It is most likely to find its audience amongst fans of dystopian science fiction and fantasy.
Utopian Circus is also not an entry-level book into the CITY series, so readers intending to pick it up will need to commit to reading the previous novel first.
http://www.darkmatterfanzine.com/dmf/...
A review by Evie Kendal
Utopian Circus is the second installment of the series CITY: a literary concerto by self-published author, C. Sean McGee. Like McGee’s other texts, this one is free to download on his website, with print copies available for sale. For a self-published book the quality of the binding, cover and paper is quite good and the font size and line spacing used makes the text easy to read. As such, it is worth purchasing the physical book. (I will confess that although I love the flexibility that e-reading affords, I still believe a hard copy book has a certain aura that an e-book can never duplicate…even a mass market paperback!)
Utopian Circus begins with two old ladies – and old here means very old – who are preparing to skin the body of a naked young man they discovered floating downstream in a river. When they cut open the black bag the body has been sealed in they are shocked to discover not only that the body is so young – “Less than a hundred?” – but also that the man is still alive. While this state of affairs does not change their goal of skinning him and wearing his “skin dress” it does make it rather difficult to achieve when he gets up and runs away into the bushes, taking their prized scalpel with him. At this point the ladies voice their concerns that “the gods” will be angry with them, as the necessity of “changing faces” is one of their rules. They believe such a perfect skin as this young man’s, one not ravaged by the “famine” which is attacking the minds and bodies of the populace, must have been a gift or a message from the gods. Afraid of the ramifications of their failure, the women pursue the escaped young man.
The idea of skinning people and wearing their faces appears very briefly at the end of Book 1 of the series,AR1S1NGFALL, and information from this previous book is assumed knowledge in Utopian Circus. Both books open with unusual scenes that do not completely make sense at the start of the novel, but which come to be explained through a gradual revealing of the elements of the dystopian fictional world. The sense of mystery was perhaps a little more intense at the beginning of AR1S1NGFALL, however it is reasonable to expect that a sequel will not be quite so alienating for the reader (or “cognitively estranging” as Darko Suvin would have it) as a first novel.
Nevertheless, there is plenty to keep the reader guessing and there are only a few instances in the text where exposition is excessive.
Alongside the story of the immortal “Elemental Ladies” (or “Facers”) the narrative picks up from whereAR1S1NGFALL left off and follows several characters from The Nest, the indoctrination facility that served as the setting for Book 1. However, there is a significant difference in flavour between these installments, withAR1S1NGFALL having a 1940’s classic science fiction dystopia feel, while Utopian Circus reads very much like a Grimm’s fairy tale (complete with evil queens and disturbing violence).
Comparing the technical elements of both books, while there are fewer typographical errors and better overall presentation in Utopian Circus, grammar and punctuation are still an issue.
Due to the presence of various adult themes, Utopian Circus is obviously unsuitable for children, however it is also unlikely to appeal to squeamish adults. It is most likely to find its audience amongst fans of dystopian science fiction and fantasy.
Utopian Circus is also not an entry-level book into the CITY series, so readers intending to pick it up will need to commit to reading the previous novel first.
http://www.darkmatterfanzine.com/dmf/...
