| | Colors are pretty powerful, if you think about it. I get depressed when I see yellow on a rainy day. Why? I don't know. I feel calmer when I see blue, although if it's a brighter blue, like aqua, I get excited. White makes me very happy, and black is mysterious--and dark. Red is one of the most powerful colors--it's the color of blood, of love, of heat.
My favorite author (other than Tolkien) is Ted Dekker. Dekker wrote a trilogy of books called the Circle Trilogy. Each of these books is named after a color. The first one is Black, the second Red, the third White. The naming follows the emotions and images these colors bring up. Black=something is horribly wrong. Red=it may be able to get better, but something unseen and terribly sad must happen first. White=victory. And this trilogy is incredible--yes, it follows a standard plot line, but only at the most basic level: problem-->solution. And even then, Dekker decided to twist it around.
Like the name implies, his story is a circle. Not one of those "A causes B causes C causes A"--that's more like a linear circle. Rather, it is a circle that has dimension--everything is interconnected and woven together. It is not a flat linear circle; it is a ball. You can't have one thing without another.
And now, he has completed the trilogy with a 4th book. How can a trilogy have a 4th book? It is book 0. It is the beginning and the end of the trilogy. And its color is Green--the color of life.
I am excited to read this last/first book. I am excited to see what is happening, what is connected, what is all related to the one man, Thomas Hunter, who travels between two separate, yet interrelated, worlds--and saves them both in an epic story of joy, of failure, of tears and sorrow, of blood, and of victory. I want to see how LIFE all plays together.
If you've never read the Circle Trilogy, you have GOT to read them. But start with Green, now that it is coming out. Go to http://teddekker.com/readgreen and enter 4943 in the Forest Guard # part. Pre-order it--you won't regret it!
~Kjelse
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