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Summary: Sure to tantalize your senses
Review: Carey McCullough soul searching went way beyond his expectations when his path crosses and collides with Frances. Following backwards for this young beauty he also questions how deep his feelings can go. Understand he's never quite connected spirtually with another before. Only one obstacle stands in there way. You've heard the expression unequally yoked well it definitly comes into play. Is Carey ready to give up his new found beliefs for a everlasting love affair? You'll have to read to find out more.
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Summary: A TRUE DISAPPOINTMENT
Review: I don't know what Colin Channer was writing about in this book. It appears he might have lost a true love & is still sulking. Come on, Colin...MOVE ON...I LOVED WAITING IN VAIN...I was looking forward to another masterpiece. Sorry..this one didn't make it in my eyes.
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Summary: A Journey For The Soul
Review: Satisfy My Soul is a must read if ever there was one. This book can and will transport the reader to places they have never been both in and out of this world, and the journey I dare say will be different for each individual. Don't deprive yourself of this literary experience. Get The Book! Enduring77@aol.com
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Summary: A modern day shakespearan read with an African twist.
Review: This book is alive, I for one cannot decide what about this book holds me captive. The prose runs like poetry, the characters so real one can be forgiven into assuming he listens in on peoples conversations. Most western writers skim over Africa, in their writing it becomes glaringly obvoius they know very little about the continent. They visit, stay in urban areas, mix only with Africans who appear 'westernised' and leave without touching the core that is our motherland. I have always found it ironic that the 'white man' seems more willing to visit villages , sample local dishes, study customs and even take the trouble to study local languages; not so our African-American brothers who visit Africa but miss her true essence. Alex Hailey found our core. And I believe so did Colin Channer.
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Summary: Thanks for SAT. is. fye.ing My Soul -- I loved your book!!!!
Review: Thanks for SAT.is.fye.ing my Soul. I am simply dazzled and enthralled by your usage and command of the English language. Thank God for the first Amendment and the "write" to ik.spress yourself... I have run my hands over some of the pages of your well written and thoroughly research novel to grapple onto the words and your profound story of love, family, self, and betrayal. You write and tell a story so beautifully... Welcome to the literary world and continue to "give us all you've got!" P.S. The love scenes in all of your books leave me speechless --all I can say is that you know how to start a "Fire" and keep it going. I can't tell you how many times I have read one of your love passages, and closed your book, and closed my eyes, and said to myself, "wow, if I could only find someone who could care and love me like you present in your work." For now it is a FAN.tuh.see --Thanks...
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Summary: Somebody Help me satisfy my mind
Review: I personally tried to read more into the book because i couldnt get into this book. It seemed as though it was trying to set a point to the readers but for some reason i couldnt enjoy this book. It took my mind to Jamaica then to a cottage. It didnt have a set focus to me. I chose to read this book because it was in Essence magazine's book shelf. But i think they made a bad choice. This was the first book that i read from Colin Channer and i am really not satisfied with this book. I hope someone else can understand this book and tell me the motive behind it.
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Summary: I JUST DIDN'T GET IT
Review: I read some of the other reviews and was happy to see that someone understood this book. Personally, I just didn't get it. I always try to give a book the benefit of the doubt when it doesn't catch me from the beginning, but this book just didn't do it for me. It seemed as if CC wrote in riddle. As I said before, I am glad that someone else enjoyed this book, because I didn't.
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Summary: A big bag of Jelly Beans
Review: I like Jelly Beans. Well,I like most Jelly beans. If you ever get a hold of a bag of jelly beans that I have been munching on, you'll almost certainly find mostly black jelly beans left at the bottom, because I just do not like them. Satisfy My Soul, by Colin Channer reminds me of such an experience. I found the prose both full and entertaining, both in the midst of conversation between characters and in the description of scenes and actions. The actual flow of the plot seems to meander, and on occasion you find yourself wondering how the characters ended up where they did, because the segues were rather vague. The ending was a little dissatisfying, as the author rushed through the last 2 chapters to tie up some loose ends, disrupting the easy, leisurely pace of the book. Considering the twists, I would have hoped that Mr. Channer would have spent as much effort explaining the proceedings as he did with the vast majority of the book. All being said, there are several passages that are simply riveting. At the end of the booki found myself full off of the prose, and the outline and plot left in the bottom of the bag.
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Summary: More
Review: SATISFY MY SOUL is a compelling writing of the search for wholeness and meaning. Channer is a unique and refreshing author in his approach to romance, eroticism, mysticism and the very art of story-telling. Channer portrays romance as an adventure: it's fun and you have no idea where you'll end up! The female characters are participants in the romance, rather than "prey." The term "eroticism" doesn't accurately describe what Channer writes, but I cannot think of a better word! Typical "erotica" is designed, like all pornography, to arouse and excite, and focuses on competion (orgasm). Channer's focus is on the process. The writing is sensual and leaves one with a sense of lingering, lasting pleasure. Perhaps the best comparison between other erotica and Channer's treatment of this subject is the difference between shoving an American chocolate bar, with it's crumbling, waxy consisitency, into your mouth and swallowing - or purchasing a fine dark chocolate on the Champs-Elysess and savoring tiny bites as they melt on your tongue and surround you with the feel, taste and smell of bliss. This book treats mysticism/religion as an open subject (not a closed one). It makes you uncomfortable, causes you to question (all over again!) what you have chosen to believe and what you have chosen to not believe. SATISFY MY SOUL, while a pleasure to read (owing to Channer's lovely and sophisticated use of the language), is not "light reading." The subject matter, the depth to which he explores and the level of lingering discomfort one is left with make this a book to read when you have time to ponder. (It's a vacation book!) Perhaps the greatest pleasure in reading this book was seeing greatness in its infancy. Channer obviously has the potential to write at a level to which many aspire but few attain. I will read this book several times to understand it well and am looking forward to more from Colin Channer.
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Summary: MAN ON A JOURNEY
Review: SATISFY MY SOUL is the story of a man on an almost mystical journey, discovering himself in a previous life, meeting his soul mate and life partner, and then missing the connection. This book looks at how people view different religions and how they justify their own beliefs. It also looks at having a friend/mentor who may not be what he seems. This is a strange book written in a beautiful, poetic style, yet it had no main, continuing plot. Several portions were written out of order for effect like the relationship between father and son, then the effects of missing a scheduled flight; yet they seemed more to confuse issues than to illuminate them. And the ending (writing from the dead zone) appeared to attempt for a science fiction rating. If I could, I'd give SATISFY MY SOUL a 5 for beautiful phrases and mental pictures, but a 2 for story line and content. Somewhere along the road, in planning or in execution, the story got lost. Generally, I absolutely love this author's work. In this case, was looking for something equal to or better than Channer's first novel, WAITING IN VAIN, but I didn't find it here.
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