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Limbo
What’s it like to go to Hell?
First, you start out in Limbo.
Dan Twersky, TSA officer at Newark International Airport, was dealing drugs and living large when he made a fatal mistake and ended up in front of the Devil, aka Your Majesty, and began his strange journey into Hell, a bleak world of relentless challenges.
And the ultimate challenge is not to end up in Hell Central, the location of the dreaded Fire Pit.
After arriving in Limbo, Twersky is assigned to the Eighth Circle, the Fraud Depot, where he meets his new boss, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, the notorious Columbian drug lord, who gives him a title and his first assignment.
As Lieutenant of Immigration and Deportation, Twersky travels to Earth where he participates in the Devil’s war on goodness, and he must succeed or else … He gets off to a bumpy start, but that’s not unusual for a newbie from the underworld.
At first, Hell was terrifying and lonely until he meets Carl, a savvy housefly, who becomes his guide and best bro. Together they embark on an exploration of the various circles and “ditches” in Hell and meet many shady residents along the way.
It’s the twenty-first century and Hell is undergoing major changes, and Twersky is too. The question remains, is it all for better or worse?
If you love fantasy, science fiction, and dark humor, don’t miss Limbo, Book I of The High Comedy series. Your Majesty is waiting for you!
Don't forget - Limbo is FREE with your Kindle Unlimited subscription.
First, you start out in Limbo.
Dan Twersky, TSA officer at Newark International Airport, was dealing drugs and living large when he made a fatal mistake and ended up in front of the Devil, aka Your Majesty, and began his strange journey into Hell, a bleak world of relentless challenges.
And the ultimate challenge is not to end up in Hell Central, the location of the dreaded Fire Pit.
After arriving in Limbo, Twersky is assigned to the Eighth Circle, the Fraud Depot, where he meets his new boss, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, the notorious Columbian drug lord, who gives him a title and his first assignment.
As Lieutenant of Immigration and Deportation, Twersky travels to Earth where he participates in the Devil’s war on goodness, and he must succeed or else … He gets off to a bumpy start, but that’s not unusual for a newbie from the underworld.
At first, Hell was terrifying and lonely until he meets Carl, a savvy housefly, who becomes his guide and best bro. Together they embark on an exploration of the various circles and “ditches” in Hell and meet many shady residents along the way.
It’s the twenty-first century and Hell is undergoing major changes, and Twersky is too. The question remains, is it all for better or worse?
If you love fantasy, science fiction, and dark humor, don’t miss Limbo, Book I of The High Comedy series. Your Majesty is waiting for you!
Don't forget - Limbo is FREE with your Kindle Unlimited subscription.
146 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 20, 2019
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April 23, 2019
Limbo by Nora Quien grabs from the start with a humorous description of the Devil wearing dreadlocks, a clever play on the book and film, The Devil Wears Prada. A few pages later, Twersky's face, the main protagonist, is an “unmade bed heaped with overused pillows.” These exemplify Quien’s humor and a style. With crated skill, Quien imbues a mental image of each character’s physical appearance in the way a caricature artist does with a charcoal pencil. Superb descriptions mark Limbo a well-written novel.
Quien’s presentation of Dante’s Inferno reminds me of John Ciardi’s translation—informal vernacular hence accessible to non-academics. She neatly populates Hell with her characters yet takes an opportunity to present real people—Leona Helmsley, Bernie Madoff, Father O’Grady, and others, following Dante’s own method to mix fictional characters with the politicians, popes, and Florentine adversaries in his time. Not to worry if you don’t know this since Quien informs the reader of Dante’s historical characters and identifies the villains of our time. She’s on a thin edge to offer sufficient background information without overwhelming the reader. Wisely, she doesn not belabor that her Virgil Express train is a homage to Dante’s personal Hell guide, Virgil. The difference being that the Virgil Express is more like a hop-on-hop-off tour of Hell than Dante’s one-way walking tour with the poet Virgil. I can’t say for sure the author used Twersky to mean the grand rabbi of Chernobyl as a reminder of the ever looming nuclear cataclysm facing usw. And it unnecessary to enjoy the story. Quien is clever intelligence may be a problem for a casual reader that misinterprets the book's subtitle, high comedy. She means the classic Greek comedy drama—hence high—which depicts struggles among groups against each other in a humorous or ironic sense. Limbo is not a ha ha funny modern comedy.
Quien reminds me of Terry Pratchett and co-author Neil Gaiman, especially in Good Omen, with their book presenting good and evil with an angel and the devil’s son switched at birth, and at odds with each other as they prepare for the Earth’s destruction but with a different outcome. Quien’s Twersky with the Devil's minions, the self-proclaimed “Hellies,” return periodically to Earth to amplify fame, plague, wars, and magnify human suffering to the Devil's delight. No Apocalypse but awful none the less. Quien's style conforms closely to that of Pratchett which is very high praise.
The book ends with Twersky the same chump he was when alive with minor changes in his self-awareness. In a preview of Book 2, The City of Dis, comes more of Twersky’s road show adventure through the bottom layers of Hell.
Her readers, can hope Nora Quien steps away from the pseudonym persona to write a first-rate literary novel—dare I say bestseller? Her beautiful prose makes me envious which I suppose relegates me into the lower circles of Dante’s Purgatory.
Quien’s presentation of Dante’s Inferno reminds me of John Ciardi’s translation—informal vernacular hence accessible to non-academics. She neatly populates Hell with her characters yet takes an opportunity to present real people—Leona Helmsley, Bernie Madoff, Father O’Grady, and others, following Dante’s own method to mix fictional characters with the politicians, popes, and Florentine adversaries in his time. Not to worry if you don’t know this since Quien informs the reader of Dante’s historical characters and identifies the villains of our time. She’s on a thin edge to offer sufficient background information without overwhelming the reader. Wisely, she doesn not belabor that her Virgil Express train is a homage to Dante’s personal Hell guide, Virgil. The difference being that the Virgil Express is more like a hop-on-hop-off tour of Hell than Dante’s one-way walking tour with the poet Virgil. I can’t say for sure the author used Twersky to mean the grand rabbi of Chernobyl as a reminder of the ever looming nuclear cataclysm facing usw. And it unnecessary to enjoy the story. Quien is clever intelligence may be a problem for a casual reader that misinterprets the book's subtitle, high comedy. She means the classic Greek comedy drama—hence high—which depicts struggles among groups against each other in a humorous or ironic sense. Limbo is not a ha ha funny modern comedy.
Quien reminds me of Terry Pratchett and co-author Neil Gaiman, especially in Good Omen, with their book presenting good and evil with an angel and the devil’s son switched at birth, and at odds with each other as they prepare for the Earth’s destruction but with a different outcome. Quien’s Twersky with the Devil's minions, the self-proclaimed “Hellies,” return periodically to Earth to amplify fame, plague, wars, and magnify human suffering to the Devil's delight. No Apocalypse but awful none the less. Quien's style conforms closely to that of Pratchett which is very high praise.
The book ends with Twersky the same chump he was when alive with minor changes in his self-awareness. In a preview of Book 2, The City of Dis, comes more of Twersky’s road show adventure through the bottom layers of Hell.
Her readers, can hope Nora Quien steps away from the pseudonym persona to write a first-rate literary novel—dare I say bestseller? Her beautiful prose makes me envious which I suppose relegates me into the lower circles of Dante’s Purgatory.
May 4, 2020
A light hearted bit of fun provided you don't suffer from the aftereffects of a religious upbringing.
A light hearted bit of fun provided you don't suffer from the aftereffects of a religious upbringing which might cause an uneasy nights sleep after reading it.
A light hearted bit of fun provided you don't suffer from the aftereffects of a religious upbringing which might cause an uneasy nights sleep after reading it.
August 3, 2020
Great book loved it
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