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A neo-primitive cult, possessing secret government documents filled with terrifying information about global warming, kidnaps a famous fashion model and holds her hostage, forcing her to act as their spokesperson. As time runs out, her estranged daughter allies with a dangerous activist group to rescue her, while battling dark agendas from the government and Big Oil.
From the International Thriller Writers’ Interview With Author Mark Nykanen
By Cym Lowell |
Thrillers includes a wide range sub-genres. Primitive, by Mark Nykane, explores the world of environmental terrorism. Mark flourished in his career as an on-camera investigative correspondent for NBC, oft… More >> Primitive
waste of time/phony agenda /poorly written// no redeeming qualities/immature treatment of serious topic/comical characters /boorish treatment of our silly subcultues/don’t waste your time/deserves a bookburning. rrs inphilly Rating: 1 / 5
On Feb 24 2010 the blog CLIMATE CHANGE, named one of the top climate-change blogs by TIME Magazine in 2009, said this about Mark Nykanen’s Primitive: “a nail chewing ride full of action, gut wrenching fear and genuine terror.”
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Rating: 5 / 5
Mark Nykanen’s Primitive was the first and last ebook I read (for a while). Unfortunately I don’t have a dedicated e-book reader, which meant that the reading process was the equivalent of staring at the computer screen for hours upon hour. I don’t want to repeat this experience, as my necks and eyes got strained a bit. Unless the future holds a Kindle or some other ebook reader for me, I won’t be doing this again.
I was also keenly aware of the contrast between the book’s content and the media I was absorbing it through. After all the major theme of the book was a diatribe against rampant consumerism; showing how people living in industrial society and enjoying its comforts are “raping the planet.” So I or my computer using a lot of electricity just to read a book wasn’t exactly aligned with this idea and it made me self-aware of my action. If that was the author’s goal he succeeded.
The book’s speed, tone and focus kept changing. After a slow start we learn a lot about the principals and methods of the extreme environmentalist group that kidnapped a fashion model and tried to force her to live their way of life. The latter being a combination of neo-primitive (hence the title)-where only tools created by themselves are used, only food they gather, grow or kill is eaten and only objects they made is in their surrounding-and what they call post-industrial. The latter involves using high tech to conduct their PR, including video podcast of the model to share the world their agenda. Later the thriller speeds up with chase sequences, explosions, shooting and at the end a huge, unbalanced battle. These include both the model’s attempts of escape and her daughter’s attempts to fin and rescue her.
I enjoyed both the high speed parts of the book and the environmental exposures. I was happy to see the names of Buckminster Fuller and Gregory Bateson in the book. Hopefully their ideas will spread a little bit more, along with the awareness of what the hidden methane reserves can do to our planet. After all that’s what the Terra Firma, aka Aboland group, or as I suspect Nykanen wanted to point out. It had my attention.
Minor note: towards the end of the book (page 288 and 289) there are two URLs that was supposedly used by the group. However they are unregistered. If you use a URL in a book you better make sure it’s yours and use it for promotion of the book. Not doing so would show that you may not be on the top of your game. (On the other hand the book has a video trailer, put together by the publisher) I am strongly tempted to register them for myself and profit out of it. If I am to do it, I should do it now, before/if the book becomes popular. Neh, I am too lazy. Rating: 4 / 5
Mark Nykanes’s Primative is as tense a book I’ve ever had the immense pleasure and great privilege of reading. It has a knock your socks off knock out punch from the first page and doesn’t stop until the last page is done. Come take the scariest ride of your life on this Eco-Thriller, apocalyptic roller coaster ride, where the lines between villain and hero have never been thinner and where the final outcome could be the fate of the world as we know it. We have never had more unlikely heroines in Sonya Adams middle-aged model and her multi-pierced, multi-faceted daughter Darcy, but as you get better acquainted with them you’ll see just what stuff they’re made of.
Mark is an exceptional storyteller, with dramatic, dynamic descriptive dialogue that takes your senses through many excruciating and exciting journeys and makes his images jump off the pages. He takes his readers through a wild untamed natural wonderland filled with not only natural terrors but human as well. His wonderful characters enhance the story and he is intimately acquainted with each one, they are all well defined and multidimensional. His story line/plot is unique and yet something that could easily wind up on the front pages of any major newspaper or head lines of any newscast.
This incredible work of fiction will take you through many emotions, not all of them easy to bear but you will none-the-less find yourself unable to stop turning pages to find out what happens next. It is definitely not a read for the faint of heart, you will find violence here, but it is intricate to the story and in my opinion very necessary. So if you like your novels to be edge of your seat exciting with nail biting, heart racing thrills get ready for the ride of your life. Rating: 5 / 5
The story centers around the kidnapping of fashion model Sonya Adams. Sonya flies to Montana on an assignment, but finds herself whisked away by a male model from a former shoot and his companion, her limo driver.
Sonya can’t tell if she’s still in Montana or somewhere in the vast Canadian wilderness. Their destination is a strange back to the land commune full of people dedicated to saving the environment-in their own way.
Sonya’s troublesome daughter, Darcy, feels guilty over the way she’s treated her mother in the past and decides to find her and bring her home. Hot on Darcy’s trail is a twisted and greedy bounty hunter.
It’s a fast moving story, with some scary twists to it. All through it I kept wondering if Sonya or her daughter would survive. I enjoyed reading it and would like to read more of the author’s books.
Rating: 5 / 5