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- Title: High Times, An Alien Paradise
- Author : Mark Russell Viliborghi
- Release Date : January 30, 2009
- Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1541 KB
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From author Mark Russell Viliborghis exceptionally vivid dream comes this fascinating work of fiction that takes you into the interesting place called High Times. As you delve deep into High Times, An Alien Paradise, youll find satisfaction, intrigue, romance, revelation, humor, mystery, good times, and insight into the future of humankind.
Meet an ensemble of charming characters who will show you the beauty and delight of living and working in High Times. Follow Horn, who narrates this story, as he tells you of how he enjoys waking up everyday to work as a saxophone player in a band at High Times.
So what makes High Times that interesting? It is an unusual restaurant-nightclub-bar-dance hall. High Times or HT, as fondly called by its employees, is not the typical place for entertainment and eating. It even has a romantic heated indoor-basement heart-shaped swimming pool. The founders of High Times has built HT mostly to get friends together, especially those who have common interests, in an environment of intimacy where the best of conversation, dance, music, and most of all, good warm feelings can be cultivated and expressed.
But is this all there is to it or is there some mystery and intrigue behind the faade of High Times? Find out in author Mark Russell Viliborghis High Times, An Alien Paradise
Book ReviewsA topsy-turvy psychedelic science-fiction talestarring an eclectic array of beings, human andotherwisebased on an exceptionally lucid dream experienced by author Viliborghi.Viliborghis hero is Horn, a musician at a small nightclub called High Times. For Horn, life is soexciting that [he] cant wait to see what comes next. He lives to play music, loves his band mates, iswell paid and maintains a nice flat in a nearby post-war apartment building. Actually, he explains,I have accidentally found myself in a million-dollar lifestyle without the responsibilities or stresses.We who work at [High Times] are all riding a train through Shangri-La. I hope it never ends, and I justknew life could be this good. But not all is how it appears. As Horn soon discovers, there is amysterious presence in the basement of the apartment complex. The place gives me that funny feeling, he says, the one where you walkbackwards out so that you dont turn your back on whatever is there. High Times is comprised of two narratives, each carefully intertwined byViliborghi. The first is the more straightforwardHorn recruits a new female lead singer for his band, and promptly falls in love. The band playsgigs, and earns the respect of the community. Meanwhile, the author delves into the stories of the other denizens of the apartment complex,including a young couple named Jack and Jill. But the book is also a sci-fi adventure, and much of the book is concerned with Horns search forlife in the basement. High Times appears to be a kind of portal, which connects the nightclub and the apartment complex to a powerful alien being.Viliborghis writing often falls flat, but his plotting is solid and the book moves from the early scenes to the surprising, exciting ending with agood deal of ballast.Extraterrestrial happenings make this an intriguing ride.
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