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TINY EDEN BOOKSA powerful story of adventure, love, & courage of one boy to one manBy Günter Konrad Heyes
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Tiny Eden is the classic story of the fight between good
and evil.
However the evil one find there is the same evil you have in
your own neighborhood.
Even if one finds himself marooned an Island - no one IS an
Island.
Take
the incredible journey into the unknown!

ISBN: 9781438927206 Price: $24.99 direct
from
publisher.
Tiny Eden can also be purchased at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble on-line and is also available at Chapters in Canada. With ISBN: 9781438927206 it can ALSO be requested by your local library and bookstore.
When
my copy of Tiny Eden arrived, I held this massive
tome of a novel in
my hands, and exclaimed: "My God! I'll NEVER get
through this
monster!" I then looked up Tolstoy's War and Peace
to learn it
was a novel of 696 pages. Tiny Eden's length (3rd
ed), 696 pages. And then I gingerly opened the cover
and found this story was told as
a diary. Well, who reads other people's diaries? I
then began to
read, and found after 12 days of spare (and not so
spare) time, I
was finished. That is how engaging this amazing book
was. An avid
reader as I have always been, I have never tackled a
work of this
magnitude, both in length, and breadth of issues
upon which the
author covers, both controversial and mundane, in
the enthralling
setting of Freeland, an enchanting and
mystery-filled land where the
crew of VH-CKO, a cargo-carrying modified DC3, find
themselves after
crash-landing while on a maritime rescue mission.
My
first impression, was Lost Horizon on steroids!
Having read James
Hilton's 1933 classic as a boy, much beloved by so
many over the
ensuing decades, with it's Freeland-like
Shang-ri-La, led me to
believe I was in for a real treat. I was by no means
disappointed.
Tiny Eden took me through an engaging interplay, via
the diary of
Capt. Günter Heyes, of the rise of Freeland
from an unknown backward
island society to a world power under the leadership
of Ardos, a
prince destined to become Boy King, over a period of
5 years. This
remarkable transformation of a previously unknown
society into world
prominence is catalyzed by the discovery and
development of a new
plant product heretofore unknown to science, along
with the amazing
capabilities of the controversial substance known as
hemp, which can
be employed for a dazzling variety and diversity of
uses, from fuel
to writing material, to the construction of strong
ropes and
textiles, among many other things.
As
other reviewers have mentioned, this story is a tale
of intense
emotions, of tragedy and triumph, of brutal
religious fanaticism, and
redemption through trust and strong moral character.
It is a tale of
love and devotion, a story of inter-generational
relationships across
both sexes, all mixed with a liberal dose of strong
opinion on many
contemporary political, social, moral, economic and
religious issues
of our time. Ultimately, it is a story of the
triumph of good over
evil, culminating in the emergence of a new kind of
communitarian
society based on a new kind of Constitution
formulated as The Twelve
Laws, stipulating the proper relationship of man to
nature and the
universe of which he is an inseparable part.
I
can't help but think that, had our contemporary
societies been built
on the precepts of these Twelve Laws, our world
would be be a very
different, and far better place in which to live.
Kudos to a
perceptive and compassionate author, who has proven
to be as skilled
with a pen on paper as with a joystick in a cockpit.
I look forward
with great anticipation to the publication of the
future books in the
series. They will, no doubt, enthrall me every bit
as much as Tiny
Eden did.
Dimitri
The Book is
truly fantastic. From the very first chapter it reels you in.
Captain Günter Heyes brings his characters to life. They
are so believable. As he tells his story you see it through
his eyes just as if you are right there when everything is
happening.
This story will make you cry, laugh, cheer,
and get so angry at times. The book is very well written. The
character Ardos who to me is the main core of the story, he is
a young boy but so wise beyond his years and he touches the
hearts and souls of everyone he encounters. Those piercing
blue eyes and that smile has a powerful way of just turning
things around.
Captain Günter Heyes and his crew
crash on this land and things will never be the same again. I
can only say that all the characters will enlighten you and
truly make you think about your fellow man and woman. This
book is a must read you will not be disappointed. - You will
be anxious to read whats next in the series.
Algie R. Williams / Police Officer
It is presented
as "...the diary accounts of Capt. Günter K. Heyes and
his crew and passengers spanning over 5 years of survival -
and finally triumph."
From the original manuscripts to the
re-edited versions of this voluminous epic, I've seen the
evolution of a fascinating story told in words only a well
traveled and strongly opinionated writer could have presented.
The writing style conveys a solid imagery for the active mind
and instills an appetite to pursue reading the adventures and
the intricacies brought forth by Günter K. Heyes.
To my demanding critic criteria, I'll
require that a book, manuscript submitted to my attention be
generating an instant interest upon starting reading it. In
this case, the author succeeds very well in getting my
attention by figuratively painting an introductory canvas that
does promise a diversity of possible scenarios that will only
get me further hooked on this book.
More so, there is also a good part of
intelligent and challenging thoughts being interlaced with a
story that keeps rolling through the chapters which keeps the
reader riveted to this perpetuation of intricacies culminating
to a conclusion that demands we ought to know more about the
characters presented in this voluminous marvel.
I'm told that other manuscripts have
already been added to Tiny Eden becoming a series of extended
novels in which some of the participating characters are being
explored in their own individuality.
I wouldn't be surprised that such an idea
as Tiny Eden would become a feature movie in times ahead. The
writing style surpasses that of Harry Potter's author and we
all know how many movie sequels came out of those little
novels.
Tiny Eden - The Book: highly recommended
for the cerebral inclined reader.
Peter Riden / TGB (The Grand Barn)
Hi,
I read Tiny Eden when I was sick. It
kept me very much involved with reading it. With the urging of
the one editor and the book I was able to push myself into
doing more and getting better. The book reads as if real in
every way and hits many emotions. Makes sense in so many ways
I agree it takes a village to raise children. This shows how
many people involved can give a child security, love an
openness that's needed. Read THE whole story see what all it
tells!
The only way someone can deal with
issues beyond what their used to is label and box it. The word
love has many meanings some as to the way you grew up, have
bad ideas associated with them. Even cultures have many
meanings. In this book it has many good meanings as in the
whole person, not just a part. That's why I said read THE
whole book! Look at this with new eyes, new thoughts. Remember
not every thing is according to believes say in U.S.A. there
can be differences around the world. So the challenge is to
see this book objectively, openly. Take a chance!
Shane