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Aftermath [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

LeVar Burton (Author)
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)

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From Publishers Weekly

Another Star Trek alumnus gets bitten by the writing bug. Here, it's Burton, who played Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation. His fiction debut is a terribly earnest and straightforward novel about the horrors that occur after America is shattered by a breakdown in race relations. Dr. Rene Reynolds is the inventor of the Neuro-Enhancer, a device with almost mystical healing abilities that also creates telepathic powers in its wearers. After Reynolds demonstrates the device to financiers, she is kidnapped?but not before she desperately thrusts the only existing copies of her computer disks into the hands of a homeless man, Leon Cane, whose life was shattered during the race riots. When Reynolds sends out a telepathic call for help, Cane, Amy LaDue, a plucky child living on the streets, and Jacob Fire Cloud, a Lakota medicine man with a vision, head toward Chicago to aid her and to save the world from destruction. Burton's workmanlike prose is sufficient for the task of displaying his characters' virtues, but the world he builds is muddled and less than credible. His name recognition, however, along with the novel's humane and caring moral message, should ensure respectable sales. Author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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American civilization crumbles after a civil war pitting blacks against whites and a devastating earthquake. Salvation resides in the hands of a black woman scientist, Dr. Rene Reynolds, inventor of a neuroenhancer that cures all diseases. When she is kidnapped, her telepathic cry for help reaches three people who travel across the country to save her. Star TrekR actor Burton's characterizations are shallow, transitions between events betray a TV-like impatience, and the plot was rendered better in Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven's Lucifer's Hammer (Fawcett, 1985). Buy only on demand.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Levar Stoops Low, Jun 28 2007
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S. Bonner (Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aftermath (Audio Cassette)
It's sad to see that such an influential black man such as Levar, has his head stuck so far back and outside of the reality of today's society. Racism is dying. It hardly exists. I live in Louisiana (probably the most racist state of all) and even here, racism is fading "into a dim memory", to quote Shinzon of Remus. Levar was raised in California, with broad exposure to many cultures. He had the opporotunity to grow up, but didn't.
Perhaps "Roots" left a scar on him. I imagine it was a pretty powerful experience to play Kunte Kinte, and the history of black people is important, but at some point he needs to look at the world around him and realize that our pain as Americans has ended.
This was not an attempt to write a unique book, it was a political move on his part. He knows he's not that good of a writer, and he made one last desperate attempt while nearing the end of his career to speak out for America's past. It was... adolecent on his part. He was trying to make racism into something modern. With modernism comes expansion and and education. With the proper education (that he obviously lacks)racism dissapears.
I lost my respect for this man when I read this book. I think his anger would best be fueled if he would take some of that money and time and create a few well-made documentaries surrouding slavery and civil rights; times when racism was still reality.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Levar Burton takes a "STAND" on the world's end, Jan 18 2004
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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aftermath (Hardcover)
Similarities can be found between this first effort by the former "Star Trek" performer and the classic novel by Stephen King. It is also obvious that Burton wishes to tread waters covered by sci-fi literary icon(and fellow African-American) Octavia Butler.

The book is easy to read, the plot development adequate, and the occasional "action scenes" hold true to a person familiar with episodic television.

"Aftermath" may not belong in the category of great literature, but it is an entertaining and engrossing story.

I recommend it.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Its ok, Dec 6 2002
This review is from: Aftermath (Paperback)
In an America ravaged by a racial civil war four people will come together to save the world.

1. An old indian medican man
2. A street child living in St. Louis
3. A homeless man living an an Atlanta ravaged by war and divided into waring sectors
4. Most importantly there is a doctor who has discovered a may for the body to heal itself.

So ok at the begining when the backgroud is explianed I found that to be very good and well thought out. After that things get a little messy. I love Reading Rainbow, but as far as being a good author Mr. Burton falls flat. My biggest problem is that the charecters repeat themselves saying past comments agian and agian. Not that I didn't like the book

Overall-If you can find it, this is a very good read

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