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Hole
Alternate cover edition for ASIN B00JW0B9WM
Luke is a talented college student passionate about his work, art, life, and love. A new world with endless opportunities is opening before him. Celia is beautiful, gifted, and in deadly mental turmoil. She is quietly consumed with rage and revulsion. When love beckons, hatred shows up. Hot, hideous, and heartless.
Luke is the love of her life, but she cannot love him. As quickly as they find each other, it's over. Celia’s heart cries as he walks away. He hears nothing.
HOLE is a work of fiction based on a true story. From page one, the author sends his readers into troubled territory where madness hides behind angel eyes. Obsessed with guilt and horror, Luke twists and turns through life on a desperate quest to rejoin his lost true love.
Luke is a talented college student passionate about his work, art, life, and love. A new world with endless opportunities is opening before him. Celia is beautiful, gifted, and in deadly mental turmoil. She is quietly consumed with rage and revulsion. When love beckons, hatred shows up. Hot, hideous, and heartless.
Luke is the love of her life, but she cannot love him. As quickly as they find each other, it's over. Celia’s heart cries as he walks away. He hears nothing.
HOLE is a work of fiction based on a true story. From page one, the author sends his readers into troubled territory where madness hides behind angel eyes. Obsessed with guilt and horror, Luke twists and turns through life on a desperate quest to rejoin his lost true love.
349 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 23, 2014
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About the author
Rim Tveras
2 books3 followersI came to the USA with my parents at age ten after surviving the Hell of WWII Europe. I only knew a few key words coming in: okay, thank you, and, “Have gum please?”
Later I graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Art in Industrial Design degree, and began a career in teaching and toy design.
You may remember stuffing brightly colored plastic blocks into your Playskool Teddy Bear Shape Sorter. Or scooting around on your Tyke Cargo Bike. Or doing wheelies with your Dukes of Hazzard General Lee Wrist Racer. Those are only a few of many toys I invented.
About three years ago, I turned my creative passion to writing. Today I live with my wife, Laura, and a happy crowd of rescue animals in Palos Hills, a suburb of Chicago.
HOLE is my first written work.
Later I graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Art in Industrial Design degree, and began a career in teaching and toy design.
You may remember stuffing brightly colored plastic blocks into your Playskool Teddy Bear Shape Sorter. Or scooting around on your Tyke Cargo Bike. Or doing wheelies with your Dukes of Hazzard General Lee Wrist Racer. Those are only a few of many toys I invented.
About three years ago, I turned my creative passion to writing. Today I live with my wife, Laura, and a happy crowd of rescue animals in Palos Hills, a suburb of Chicago.
HOLE is my first written work.
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May 31, 2014
If not for the recommendation of a friend, I would never have read HOLE. I'm more of a fantasy and horror type of guy, but I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by this book.
I can honestly say that I've never read a book like HOLE before. Rather than being set strongly in one genre and then adding a few twists as most books do, HOLE spans multiple genres and themes, weaving them into one over-arching story. Love, loss, joy, sorrow, redemption, spirituality, and mental illness are all the threads that are woven together to create a work that is truly compelling.
I read HOLE in two days. The writing style is simple, which makes it an easy, fast read, but don't let that fool you into thinking this is a simple tale. While some of the ideas may be considered variations on a theme, the real kicker of HOLE is the mental illness that is addressed within it. I can say without question that no author has ever taken a foray down the particular avenue of mental illness that Rim Tveras did.
Do yourself a favor and pick up HOLE. The ideas regarding spirituality and mental illness are particularly fascinating, and the content coupled with the easy to read style gives you a great bang for your reading buck.
I can honestly say that I've never read a book like HOLE before. Rather than being set strongly in one genre and then adding a few twists as most books do, HOLE spans multiple genres and themes, weaving them into one over-arching story. Love, loss, joy, sorrow, redemption, spirituality, and mental illness are all the threads that are woven together to create a work that is truly compelling.
I read HOLE in two days. The writing style is simple, which makes it an easy, fast read, but don't let that fool you into thinking this is a simple tale. While some of the ideas may be considered variations on a theme, the real kicker of HOLE is the mental illness that is addressed within it. I can say without question that no author has ever taken a foray down the particular avenue of mental illness that Rim Tveras did.
Do yourself a favor and pick up HOLE. The ideas regarding spirituality and mental illness are particularly fascinating, and the content coupled with the easy to read style gives you a great bang for your reading buck.
May 31, 2014
This book really gets you thinking with a unique story line. After reading what feels like the same love story over and over in other books, this was a treat. Some of the theories and thoughts mentioned in this book blew my mind. If you can open your mind to these new ideas you will love HOLE. It's more than just a love story, it brings unspoken flaws in the human condition to light.
May 31, 2014
Mind=Blown
HOLE has revolutionized my brain. The ideas introduced have opened my thoughts to new possibilities and left me feeling more connected with the planet and universe. Everyone needs this kind of mentality.
HOLE has revolutionized my brain. The ideas introduced have opened my thoughts to new possibilities and left me feeling more connected with the planet and universe. Everyone needs this kind of mentality.
July 26, 2014
“Unique” and “provocative” should probably be banned from all future book reviews because the terms are so overused. But until they are, I think it would be apt to call HOLE by Rim Tveras both unique and provocative.
On the surface, HOLE is a story of hopeless love between a couple of undergrads studying design at a nondescript college in the Midwest. One is a hormone-crazed lad whose thoughts are divided between creating great art and the object of his desire, a gorgeous and captivating young woman fatally damaged as a result of an abusive childhood.
But HOLE is on a much larger mission than just another sad love story. In fact, the plot is essentially a set piece for a deeper excursion into a philosophical system in which concepts of creativity, artistic expression, the origins of inspiration and even mankind’s place in the universe are explored. This is all done…provocatively!
Then this construct is married with the psychology of emotional dysfunction, spawning a disturbing theory and justification for an artistic expression of suicide. And finally, there is the metaphysical closing of the loop in which HOLE lays out a theory that embraces the potential of an eternal merging of souls once the body is liberated from the tyranny of its brain.
So, HOLE is well titled, because it is deep!
It’s hard not to admire the seriousness and scope of Mr. Tveras’ undertaking. It’s tough to construct an engaging story around the formidable ideas being conveyed. While it’s true that the mouthpiece for the author’s more complex concepts, a charismatic design professor named Mr. Victor, comes across as a bit wooden as he lays out the philosophical underpinnings of the novel, the author mostly succeeds in breathing humanity and passion into his story.
HOLE is not an easy read, but for those who love ideas and aren’t afraid of looking at the world in a different way, this is a most rewarding book.
On the surface, HOLE is a story of hopeless love between a couple of undergrads studying design at a nondescript college in the Midwest. One is a hormone-crazed lad whose thoughts are divided between creating great art and the object of his desire, a gorgeous and captivating young woman fatally damaged as a result of an abusive childhood.
But HOLE is on a much larger mission than just another sad love story. In fact, the plot is essentially a set piece for a deeper excursion into a philosophical system in which concepts of creativity, artistic expression, the origins of inspiration and even mankind’s place in the universe are explored. This is all done…provocatively!
Then this construct is married with the psychology of emotional dysfunction, spawning a disturbing theory and justification for an artistic expression of suicide. And finally, there is the metaphysical closing of the loop in which HOLE lays out a theory that embraces the potential of an eternal merging of souls once the body is liberated from the tyranny of its brain.
So, HOLE is well titled, because it is deep!
It’s hard not to admire the seriousness and scope of Mr. Tveras’ undertaking. It’s tough to construct an engaging story around the formidable ideas being conveyed. While it’s true that the mouthpiece for the author’s more complex concepts, a charismatic design professor named Mr. Victor, comes across as a bit wooden as he lays out the philosophical underpinnings of the novel, the author mostly succeeds in breathing humanity and passion into his story.
HOLE is not an easy read, but for those who love ideas and aren’t afraid of looking at the world in a different way, this is a most rewarding book.
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