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From a Cold Dark Place is a collection of short stories and essays by Michael Tavon. The twenty four year old author shares stories and thoughts about his comically awkward sex life, police harassment, coping with loneliness and his resentment towards the blue collar lifestyle. Tavon does a brilliant job at evoking emotion while implementing his quirky humor. If you enjoy thought provoking essays and entertaining short stories this collection is perfect for you. Michael Tavon is a Floridian author, recording artists and screenplay writer. He is the author of Garage Band : The Legend of Dookie Harris and Garage Band 2: Behind the Music (TBA) "
From a Cold Dark Place, by Mr Michael Tavon - Published on: 2015-09-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .19" w x 6.00" l, .27 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 82 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Read For Yourself By Valicity Garris This is a collection of short stories and essays based on the life of the writer, a combination of fiction and reality that is interesting at some points and puzzling at others. I am probably the WORST person Tavon could have approached for a review. I have mixed feelings for this piece. It’s a good concept and it is written quite well but I feel like it’s full of nothing but negativity, generalization, and complaints. I am not the type of person to put up with whiners. We’ve all got a sob story but if you have time to tell yours then you’re not working hard enough. You should chase your dreams so hard there’s no time to think about the past.The world is so ugly and Tavon gives us a close up of that from his point of view. Part of me wants to feel sympathetic toward the “poor black man, from a poor black family, raised in a poor black neighborhood,”—his words not mine—but I can’t. Actually, I refuse. Because when you want something bad enough, you make it happen. No matter your color or condition of living. And it seems that’s what Tavon has decided to do, but I can’t find his effort beyond the mound of complaints and tales of woe.Just take a moment and imagine if Martin Luther King Jr. had the same negative attitude expressed in Tavon’s writing...There’s a lot of crude stereotyping here. About the attitudes toward the homeless, about women and their mindset toward ‘nice guys’, the government, a twisted view of Chick-Fil-A and its relation to homosexuals, the governmental oppression of blacks, and even Ebola. There is no happiness in this piece, which may be due to a lack of joy in the author’s perspective on things, but there isn’t even any hope. I’ve never met anyone who is actively working on their dreams but complains the entire time.One of my favorite lines of the book… “I am a young man with a dream most women can’t fathom to believe. Writing is my ONLY ticket out. And women only see writing as a hobby.”I’d like to take this moment to admit that I am, indeed, a 22-year-old, naturally born woman who has self-published multiple books. I’d also like to recognize JK Rowling, EL James, and Danielle Steel—all women, all billionaires, and all WRITERS. Ms. Steel is currently the bestselling author ALIVE and the fourth bestselling author of all time. So please, PLEASE, tell me how women ‘can’t fathom’ your precious, incomprehensible dream, sir…?So, after ranting and raving and chucking my copy of this book across the room, why did I give three stars to a piece I didn’t enjoy? Because I can see why others would like this. People like to be angry, they love hearing about the black struggle, how easy is it to jump on the bandwagon behind white cops abusing black victims? As a person of color myself, it’s all too easy. But I’m not so simple minded. I don’t like whiners or grumblers, I like to see people overcome and you just don’t get that here. Maybe others will love reading about how life just utterly sucks, according to Tavon. Maybe others will love discussing the unfair approach from the US government to Ebola.“How’s the Ebola virus so suddenly curable once it hits two Americans but as long as it was in Africa it was fine if they died from it?”—I guess that’s his insinuation that America didn’t care when Africans were dying, which only adds to the growing flame between blacks and whites in the US. Because, of course, only the White Americans didn’t care, right? And every disease in Africa is America’s responsibility to cure, right?I mean, we could just rejoice in the fact that Ebola is curable at all. But no, instead Tavon focuses on the negatives, nitpicking to a T—as he does throughout his entire book.From A Cold Dark Place is thought provoking but in the wrong way for me. It’s definitely a conversation starter and could even serve as a fine addition to critical thinking course materials. But it is not at all entertaining. If you’ve ever heard of Black Lives Matter, then you don’t need to read this book. If you’ve ever seen Fox News then you don’t need to read this book. If you’ve ever met a black guy working minimum wage complaining about how he can’t get a girlfriend—probably because he complains too much—then you basically have the gist of this book.So there…I’ve written my first negative review and I’m not ashamed because this book pushed me that far. But regardless of how I feel, I would actually recommend this book to others. I WANT other people to read it because I think this could start a fire across the nation. It’s just that annoyingly controversial, like Tavon wants to tick you off or rev you up. I obviously fell for the former. So I may not have liked it but I don’t think ‘making me like it’ was the author’s intention. In all honesty, I think Tavon would be happy to find someone who disagreed with him because, at the very least, it means I took in what he said and paid attention to his craft.Writing is not Tavon’s forte, it is his ability to conjure a reaction from his readers—whether good or bad—and I think that’s something worth a few stars.*I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. From a Cold, Dark Place, it Certainly is By Graham Downs Note: I use the Goodreads rating system, so my two stars means "It was okay".I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, but I was probably the wrong person for the author to ask. It's not really my thing.It's just a collection of random memories from the author's life (although I'm not sure how true they are), along with a couple of rather short pieces of fiction, and a poem at the end.From a cold, dark place, it certainly is, I'll give it that. Lots of depression, sex, and drugs. Some of the stories held my attention; others I couldn't understand. There's quite a bit of black American slang, and quite a few cultural references that I didn't get, because I'm not American, and I don't really have any experience with the lifestyle the author's talking about.I will say the narrator is very misogynistic, because descriptions of women as "bitches" and "bits" abound, along with the feeling that women only exist to provide pleasure to men. I can understand if the characters in the story feel that way, but then those references should be kept to dialogue. Since the author describes this book as true stories from his life, one can only assume that he personally feels that way about women, too... or perhaps felt that way about them at one time, but we don't know how many years ago these stories look place, and there isn't any personal development evident in the narrator.Race definitely plays a big part in this author's mind, too, because basically every character gets introduced, either explicitly by their race ("The Asian guy", "The black man", "The old white dude") or skin colour ("Skin darker than burnt chocolate"). There doesn't seem to be any reason why we should know most of these characters' races, and I can't abide that. To me, a person's race should at best be implied by a name or cultural reference, and only then, if it's absolutely essential to the story. Otherwise, it's irrelevant.The writing wasn't spectacular either, with incorrectly used words, and multiple consecutive sentences starting with "She" or "He" - very little variety in word choice.The fiction was a little better, but not great. I love flash fiction, but every story, no matter how short, should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and some form of conflict - many of these stories just felt like samples of larger works.Lastly, the formatting of my e-book edition left a lot to be desired. Sometimes it was double-spaced, sometimes it was single spaced, and there was no linked table of contents - which if you read many of my reviews, you'll know is a pretty big issue for me.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Short stories and essays covering the author's life By Whispering Stories **I received a free copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review**"From a Cold Dark Place", is full of short stories and essays about the author’s life.For anyone thinking about reading it I do feel the need to let you know that it is full of swear words and sexual language.In ‘I Envy the Homeless, and what They Represent’ – Michael talks of envying the homeless, and believes they are far more honest with themselves than those with a roof over their heads.I appreciate the author’s views on this matter, however I don’t believe everyone who is homeless is there by choice, some people have no choice but to lay their heads down at the end of the day on the street.In ‘Because I Look Like Donald Glover’ – Michael is going on a car journey with friends to a Caribbean carnival. They stopped the night at a friend’s place. A young woman that he used to fancy.He goes on to describe the party scene at her place in great detail, including the sexual encounter he had with his ‘friend’.In ‘Loathing in Loneliness’ – Michael talks of his fear of dying alone, of being jealous of couples and wanting a girlfriend of his own who understands him. I get a real sense of his loneliness through his words and felt his heightened emotions on the subject. I also felt sorry for him, and hope that his fears won’t come true.There are plenty more stories throughout including ‘A Beautiful World’, ‘Land of the Lost(Fiction)Act 1: Frankie “The Rolling Stone”‘, ‘When I Lost My Virginity’ (This was described in great detail), ‘The Lust for Love(Unfinished Fiction)’ and many more. All showcasing a poignant time in Michael’s life.The one story/essay which I enjoyed the most was ‘Four Letter Word'(Poem) – This is a poem about loving a woman. You can feel the love oozing from the words and I would say it’s his best work and the one that hit me the most.Throughout the book I got a clear picture of the author’s voice in every story. You could feel how raw his emotions were on each subject.If you like autobiographical books and can take the swear words, and at times extreme sexual language, then this is a book that you should read.This though, wasn’t a book I felt I could personally fully connect with and enjoy.Reviewed by Marcia at Whispering Stories Book Blog
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