Mel C. Thompson

Joseph Smith The Twenty-Fifth (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Joseph Smith The Twenty-Fifth, a new Mormon prophet, emerges in Salt Lake City, much to the displeasure of the official LDS church. He brings with him a cadre of Apostles, not the least of whom are ones named Brigham and Jason. "JS25," as he is called by those close to him, like his predecessor from the 1800s, engages in polygamy, but with a twist. He doesn't have sex with his wives. The tale also features two men having problems with their dull, married sex lives and JS25's attempts to aid them. In this book, as in other books by this author, the reader can look forward to sympathetic depictions of blasphemy, substance abuse and truth-telling.

Smith pursues a female journalist working for the Deseret News. Meanwhile, through a conduit named "The Guru," he is being sought by a young female BYU student who has lost her faith after being exposed to her Agnostic fiancé's library of anti-Mormon literature. Also seeking his help is a Buddhist space-time traveler named Sensei who suffers from existential angst. The book is a short tale of healing, revelation, spiritual experiences and hopes fulfilled. One more than one occasion we also see interesting interventions by the President of the official LDS church. As always, there are no good guys or bad guys, just ecstatic, unresolved complexity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mel C. Thompson
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463456132
• Artikelnr.: 69870307

Autorenporträt

Mel C. Thompson is a retired wage slave who survived by working through temp agencies and guard agencies. Unable to survive in the real world of full-time, permanent work, he migrated from building to building, going wherever his agencies sent him, doing any type of work he could feign competency in and staying as long as those fragile arrangements could last. He somehow managed to get a B.A in Philosophy from Cal-State Fullerton in spite of his learning disorders and health problems. Unable to sustain family life due to depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, lack of transportation and lack of income, he lives alone in low-income housing and wanders around California on buses and trains. He began writing at the age of 14 and continues till the current day. (He turns 64 in June of 2023). In his early years he wrote pathetic love poetry until, in his thirties, he was engulfed by cynicism and fell in with a group of largely antisocial poets who wrote about the underground life of drugs, sex, alcohol, poverty, prostitution, heresy, isolation and alienation. In his fortes he turned to prose and began to write religious fiction with an emphasis on the comedic aspect of theology and philosophy. He now writes short novels focusing on the attempt to find meaning in a economic world beset with money laundering, unethical marketing, contraband smuggling, human trafficking, patent trolling, corrupt contracting and every manner of spiritual and psychological desperation and degradation. When he is not writing, he wanders from hospital to medical clinic to surgical room attempting to sustain what little health he has left after a lifetime of complications resulting from birth defects and genetic problems. When he is able, he engages in such hobbies as reading, walking, yoga and meditation; and whenever there is any money left over from his healthcare-related quests, he goes to wine tastings and searches for foodie-related bargains. Before the pandemic, he spent many years gaming various travel-points systems and wrangled many free trips to Europe. He is divorced and has no children, no pets, no real estate, no stocks nor any other assets beyond the $550 in his savings account. His career peaked in the early 2000s when he did comedy gags for a radio station and had about 10,000 listeners per week. However, currently, he may have as few as five active readers on any given day. He no longer has the stamina to promote his work and only finds new readers through ran...