The Guardian Chronicles

Born in Duluth, Minnesota in , the son of respectable midwesterners, the Zimmerman boy grew up in a place of 'violent storms that always seemed to be coming straight at you and merciless howling winds off the big black mysterious lake'. There's nowhere that's more American. Lindbergh came from out of this north country.

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Dylan identifies strongly with these 'adventurers, prophets, writers and musicians'. The artist whose memory runs through Chronicles like a lonesome whistle echoing across the great plains is the folksinger Woody Guthrie, whom Dylan came to know and to idolise. When he listened to Guthrie, Dylan 'felt like I had discovered some essence of self-command A voice in my head said "So this is the game" I said to myself I was going to be Guthrie's greatest disciple.

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An ambitious and impressionable young teenager during the beat years, the skinny guitar-playing kid somehow scared-up an education in the European classics. It was inevitable that such a magpie reader would fall under the spell of Ginsberg, Corso and Kerouac. There are at least a dozen references to On The Road.

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It was 'like a bible for me', he says. The magical opening pages of Chronicles are a star-struck homage to the Neal Cassady generation.

On the one occasion Dylan hangs out with Bono they drink a crate of Guinness, discuss fame and swap Kerouac quotations into the night. Appropriately, it was the road that took young Robert to New York City in He used to claim he had ridden freight trains there but now, telling the truth of his arrival in the brutal depths of the city's winter, he writes, like Kerouac, of driving 'across the country from the Midwest in a four-door sedan '57 Impala - straight out of Chicago, clearing the hell out of there - racing all the way through the smoky towns, winding roads, green fields covered with snow, onward, eastbound through the state lines, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, a hour ride Was he fazed by the snow-packed arteries of the city?

There was no in between.

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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Gabriel James is a Guardian, a warrior gifted with special abilities to fight supernatural threats.

To make matters worse the Guardians soon find themselves facing a powerful new enemy, deadly hybrids that are powerful enough to wipe o Gabriel James is a Guardian, a warrior gifted with special abilities to fight supernatural threats. To make matters worse the Guardians soon find themselves facing a powerful new enemy, deadly hybrids that are powerful enough to wipe out the lycans and the Guardians.

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Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jan 22, Taryn rated it really liked it Shelves: I was also excited to see more of Alex, plus his scenes and dates with Gabriel were just so sweet!

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With Saint-Pierre dead and almost all vampire covens breaking the treaty with the Guardians, our group of Guardian friends are trying to protect the werewolf packs while to tracking down Saint-Pierre's mysterious partner. That being said, if you haven't read Dark Horizon , you might feel a little lost.

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The book does suffer from one aspect of 'fanfic syndrome', where you're expected to have read the first book and know all the characters and what happened previously. That being said, it definitely is a wonderful read and shouldn't deter you from reading it, although I do recommend reading Dark Horizon first, not only for the continuity, but because it is wonderful as well!

Jan 26, Richard Lewis rated it really liked it. This was a good followup to the first novel, with some more character development and a continuation of the storyline. I liked the direction some of the characters are moving and there was one totally unexpected interaction between two friends that made me laugh out loud when I read it.

Having said that, if you have not read the first book, you may feel a bit lost, ok, you WILL feel lost, but since the first book is totally worth the read, go get it first, then read this one: