Popsicle Styx John T Biggs Books
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Richard Harjo, PhD, DD, is an Oklahoma death-row chaplain whose job is to prepare inmates to meet their maker. That’s a challenge for any minister, especially one who has serious doubts about a supreme being. He thought he’d never get his faith back—until he met a Choctaw murderer named Holabi Minco, who might be a witch. In the tradition of his people, Minco keeps a calendar made of sticks – popsicle sticks, since they come with lunch. He writes people’s names on the sticks with his blood, and when their day comes up, they die. Some of those people are on the execution roster, but some aren’t. Richard learns he may be part of Holabi’s ritual. And when Holabi’s beautiful daughter Kinta Minco enters the picture, her other admirers—a corrupt prison guard and a white supremacist who are stalking her—make things difficult. With his hands full escorting killers to the execution chamber and making love to Kinta, Harjo hardly notices he’s caught up in a complex plot to break Holabi Minco out of prison. Will the mystical Minco avoid execution?
Popsicle Styx John T Biggs Books
Popsicle Styx has no redeeming characters, and I must admit that's not a bad thing. The pluses: Magnificent writing but a very dark story that takes the reader deep into perverted minds and unseemly places. Descriptions of people, places, and emotions opened all my senses to where I could see, smell, ear, and feel along with the characters in the scene. Most of the time I struggled to understand if what was happening was real, a dream sequence, or drug induced state. Nothing is as it seems inside the prison or outside.Other reviewers have described the action. So I'll deal with the mysticism and inner struggles for redemption that drives the story. Is God real? Is magic real? Where does the human soul go when death occurs? Every character has his or her own struggle, except for Kinta and Holabi Minco. They're sure of their plan. The author, himself, seems torn between God and fate, Good and Evil, and never clearly defines the two. Can a man have two souls, one that goes to a happy place and one that stays on the earth, whether to be at peace or not.
If there was a drawback for me, it was that, except for the ending, I knew what would happen next as it happened. It didn't matter because the journey swept me along. I have to say I have never read a novel like this in my life, so thoughtful, so dark, and yet so magnificent.
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Popsicle Styx John T Biggs Books Reviews
Interesting book. Good strong characters. I would like to read the rest of the story. I'm from Marion, Illinois and know John Biggs. Never thought of him an author. He did a very good job with this.
Loved the book well done, had drama well written nook goodly away will tell my friends about this book and.hope they liked it like I did
The main character in POPSICLE STYX, Richard Harjo, changed dramatically from the opening pages of the novel to the end. He started off as a prison chaplain who had lost his faith in everything supernatural but by the end of the story he was a full-fledged Native American holy man. Along the way he solves a murder (sort of), visited a secret town inhabited only by criminals, had a near death experience, fought for his life on a couple of occasions, and fell in love.
Gripping and compelling, this book will hold your attention throughout. A fresh and disquieting psycho thriller, I kept asking myself, "Are there really people like this?" The character development was incredible and the plot, twists and turns, and structure well executed. Biggs has a talent for creating a provocative story rich with surprises and quirky goings ons that will entertain and tantalize the reader.
What do you get when you mix a preacher, white supremacists, crack-heads, strippers, and Choctaw witches? A book called Popsicle Styx, of course. The action centers around death-row inmates and a prison Chaplin who questions his faith and the existence of magic. This story is odd but so well written! No doubt about it John T Biggs can weave a story with the best of them, and his writing is brilliant. I liked it. I didn't like it. At times I laughed out loud with the dark Christian humor. One thing is for sure, this one is damn interesting!
R.H.Burkett Author
Are you ready for a magical ride through the dark corridors of death row? If so, Popsicle Styx is the book you'll want to read. This is the story of a prison minister torn between his Christian faith, which he often wonders if he really believes, and Native American mystical magic that can reach into the souls of people both in and out of prison. Mix in sadistic prison guards, murder, and death row procedures, and sexual shenanigans, and you've got a book that reaches into the depth of the human soul. Buy this book. You'll and you'll be up all night turning pages.
I recently took advantage of a 99-cent sale and splurged on a novella by John T. Biggs titled "Popsicle Styx." Why would I do such a thing? Because I was curious. Because I wanted to know what I would be missing if I spent my week hunting rabbits.
Almost immediately, I ran into trouble. Could it be possible that Biggs wrote the entire book in a "flow of consciousness" style? Too late. I had already ingested the first three pages. Or was it nine? No, closer to twenty-five. I was hooked by the story and the skill with which Biggs worked the style, using dialog to trap the reader in regional authenticity and, despite a few rough edges, successfully weave his tapestry of fiction.
It was fiction, wasn't it?
Reverend Richard Harjo is an Oklahoma Creek Indian with degrees in divinity and psychology. His unenviable task as prison chaplain is to provide spiritual comfort to condemned prisoners languishing in the Department of Corrections H-Unit, waiting their turn for a lethal injection.
His job is complicated by a crisis of faith - not the usual kind where the sufferer wonders whether there is such a thing as a God and an afterlife. Instead, his faith is challenged by Choctaw mysticism, giving him too much to believe in. He unwittingly finds a spiritual guide of his own in the person of Holabi Minco, a Choctaw with witching powers who is himself scheduled for execution before the end of the month.
Richard is torn by self-doubt until he meets Holabi's daughter, Kinta, and falls in love. Soon he finds himself breaking Commandments and Oklahoma law as he follows her through a puzzle of murder and rape and the dark side of the soul.
The condemned and their caretakers are joined by forces beyond their comprehension. As Biggs explains, "H-Unit inmates are saturated with the magic of a certain death at a certain time in a certain way. They don't all believe in God but they all believe in something."
I believe I'll try another one of John T. Biggs' books.
Popsicle Styx has no redeeming characters, and I must admit that's not a bad thing. The pluses Magnificent writing but a very dark story that takes the reader deep into perverted minds and unseemly places. Descriptions of people, places, and emotions opened all my senses to where I could see, smell, ear, and feel along with the characters in the scene. Most of the time I struggled to understand if what was happening was real, a dream sequence, or drug induced state. Nothing is as it seems inside the prison or outside.
Other reviewers have described the action. So I'll deal with the mysticism and inner struggles for redemption that drives the story. Is God real? Is magic real? Where does the human soul go when death occurs? Every character has his or her own struggle, except for Kinta and Holabi Minco. They're sure of their plan. The author, himself, seems torn between God and fate, Good and Evil, and never clearly defines the two. Can a man have two souls, one that goes to a happy place and one that stays on the earth, whether to be at peace or not.
If there was a drawback for me, it was that, except for the ending, I knew what would happen next as it happened. It didn't matter because the journey swept me along. I have to say I have never read a novel like this in my life, so thoughtful, so dark, and yet so magnificent.
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