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The Tim Worth Chronicles: Dream State
Timothy Worth was an average teenager until he was bullied to the point of suicide. Once awakening from his drug-induced sleep, Tim finds that he now has powers that no other human has. However, there is another force going against him that wants to keep mankind under their control, doing everything in their power to do so. Tim will have to fight dangerous enemies, uncover the mysterious figure working against him, and discover the terrifying truth behind everything.
196 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 5, 2015
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August 29, 2020
As of the time of writing, there are 0 ratings and 0 reviews of The Tim worth Chronicles: Dream State, meaning I’m the first person with any sort of audience to review this book. It’s a heavy responsibility, and so I need to make sure I treat it with the appropriate level of professionalism and respect-
A strange figure stepped out of the darkness. They had no actual appearance except for looking humanoid.
”Get moving, boy, my office awaits," said Mr. Stratford. He was pointing in the direction of his office.
He turned the oven on and let the ear cook, slowly releasing the smell of cooking the flesh. The whole time the mother was on the verge of passing out from both pain and blood loss.
“Look, the water is getting way too high now.” Tim was now treading water. “Could you please turn off the water?”
You know what? Fuck it, I’m posting spoilers from here on out because this book doesn’t have a story or characters. In their place, it has a succession of ideas and events that are the literary equivalent of a toddler’s crayon scribblings, surely it makes sense to them, but to the rest of us it’s just a collection of sensations with no clear purpose.
So Tim Worth is a teenager who tries to commit suicide after his sister’s boyfriend gives him a swirly. He doesn’t die because some mysterious person who has “no actual appearance except for looking humanoid” brings him back to life with spider hands. (Believe me, if I stop at every odd moment we’ll be here until we’re both schizophrenic.) Now Tim has powers including super strength and speed that he’ll use to be a hero.
He can’t do that though, because there’s an evil businessman who controls all of New Zealand and wants to do… something, I guess. Generic McEvilbad kills Tim’s parents, cooking his mother’s ear on a stovetop in the process (see previous parenthetical) and kidnapping his sister. Tim gets captured to save her, then escapes and discovers the true source of his new powers.
Turns out humanity was placed into a Matrix-esque dream state by a race of aliens called Arachnids. The Arachnids came to Earth and got into a war with humans for… reasons and put them in the dream world for… other reasons. One of the Arachnids rewrote the programming to give Tim powers because… something about humanity needing to learn? Generic McEvilbad is an Arachnid who entered the dream world because he wanted to rule it.
The two climaxes are Tim defeating an Arachnid in the dream world and then him being woken up in the real world so Generic McEvilbad can kill him for real. But the ruling council of vagueness puts him on trial and is about to execute Tim for attacking them. Then they put him back in the dream world where he rules as a god. Presumably, at least, since all the information we get is that all the dead came back to life. That’s it, that’s the ending. The final line is: “But what of Tim? Well, some stories are better off not being told.” What a massive middle finger to anyone invested.
Every sentence has the exact same cadence, giving the prose a sort of rhythmic quality that exhausted my mental energy within minutes. Literally every sentence. Every sentence is like this. It gets annoying quickly. And I didn’t like it. To say nothing of the multitude of grammatical and spelling mistakes, or that the narrator cuts to new scenes with no indication that they’re doing so. Imagine if I kept cutting to new paragraphs in the middle of
While I award this 1 star, I do that based solely on its technical merits, or lack thereof. The Tim Worth Chronicles is something that exists outside of the star rating system, outside of language itself. I can’t call it good or bad or anything else, the human mind has not yet evolved to the point where it can properly describe or even comprehend the emotions that this book evokes. All I could do was laugh hysterically throughout this… journey? Adventure? Experience? I don’t know.
I have looked into the eyes of God the Father and staring back at me was naught but madness.
A strange figure stepped out of the darkness. They had no actual appearance except for looking humanoid.
”Get moving, boy, my office awaits," said Mr. Stratford. He was pointing in the direction of his office.
He turned the oven on and let the ear cook, slowly releasing the smell of cooking the flesh. The whole time the mother was on the verge of passing out from both pain and blood loss.
“Look, the water is getting way too high now.” Tim was now treading water. “Could you please turn off the water?”
You know what? Fuck it, I’m posting spoilers from here on out because this book doesn’t have a story or characters. In their place, it has a succession of ideas and events that are the literary equivalent of a toddler’s crayon scribblings, surely it makes sense to them, but to the rest of us it’s just a collection of sensations with no clear purpose.
So Tim Worth is a teenager who tries to commit suicide after his sister’s boyfriend gives him a swirly. He doesn’t die because some mysterious person who has “no actual appearance except for looking humanoid” brings him back to life with spider hands. (Believe me, if I stop at every odd moment we’ll be here until we’re both schizophrenic.) Now Tim has powers including super strength and speed that he’ll use to be a hero.
He can’t do that though, because there’s an evil businessman who controls all of New Zealand and wants to do… something, I guess. Generic McEvilbad kills Tim’s parents, cooking his mother’s ear on a stovetop in the process (see previous parenthetical) and kidnapping his sister. Tim gets captured to save her, then escapes and discovers the true source of his new powers.
Turns out humanity was placed into a Matrix-esque dream state by a race of aliens called Arachnids. The Arachnids came to Earth and got into a war with humans for… reasons and put them in the dream world for… other reasons. One of the Arachnids rewrote the programming to give Tim powers because… something about humanity needing to learn? Generic McEvilbad is an Arachnid who entered the dream world because he wanted to rule it.
The two climaxes are Tim defeating an Arachnid in the dream world and then him being woken up in the real world so Generic McEvilbad can kill him for real. But the ruling council of vagueness puts him on trial and is about to execute Tim for attacking them. Then they put him back in the dream world where he rules as a god. Presumably, at least, since all the information we get is that all the dead came back to life. That’s it, that’s the ending. The final line is: “But what of Tim? Well, some stories are better off not being told.” What a massive middle finger to anyone invested.
Every sentence has the exact same cadence, giving the prose a sort of rhythmic quality that exhausted my mental energy within minutes. Literally every sentence. Every sentence is like this. It gets annoying quickly. And I didn’t like it. To say nothing of the multitude of grammatical and spelling mistakes, or that the narrator cuts to new scenes with no indication that they’re doing so. Imagine if I kept cutting to new paragraphs in the middle of
While I award this 1 star, I do that based solely on its technical merits, or lack thereof. The Tim Worth Chronicles is something that exists outside of the star rating system, outside of language itself. I can’t call it good or bad or anything else, the human mind has not yet evolved to the point where it can properly describe or even comprehend the emotions that this book evokes. All I could do was laugh hysterically throughout this… journey? Adventure? Experience? I don’t know.
I have looked into the eyes of God the Father and staring back at me was naught but madness.
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