Review: hellbound train, I'm on it's track; hellbound train, ain't no way of turning back (RECEIVED A FREE COPY TO REVIEW)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 9, 2012
(RECEIVED A FREE COPY TO REVIEW)Trains have been used in many a song: Traintime (Cream); Mystery Train (Paul Butterfield Blues Band); Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash); and Train Kept a Rollin' (Yardbirds, Aerosmith, and a raftload of others). Maintaining the metaphor for a three to seven minute song is one thing; the author does it for half of the book. But while Cash's train merely tortured him, the trains of Train to Nowhere more closely resemble Savoy Brown's Hellbound Train:Hellbound TrainThey serve as home, prison, and engineered salvation simultaneously. The characters' dystopia is more regimented than 1984 or Brave New World. Having abandoned any hope of a Messiah to rule them they instead allow self-appointed messiahs to control every area of life with a never ending series of lies and deception, a world created in their own image.