{"id":1210,"date":"2006-09-13T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/thr3e-by-ted-dekker.html"},"modified":"2021-12-30T19:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T00:00:04","slug":"thr3e-by-ted-dekker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/thr3e-by-ted-dekker\/","title":{"rendered":"Thr3e By Ted Dekker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>THREE by TED DEKKER P<\/a>ODCAST<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis blog post is sponsored by Divine Desserts Publishing, LLC. Come check out our Christian fiction titles at ceceliadowdy.com\/books<\/a>. The link is at the end of this blog post.<\/h1>\n

Okay, I’ll admit it. I finished this story the day before yesterday, and I
\ncan’t get it off of my mind. If anybody has read this book, will they
\nplease post comments to this blog? I want to discuss this book with
\nsomebody so bad that it aches. You know what I mean? I wish I was still
\nin a book club and this was the pick of the month!<\/p>\n

MAJOR SPOILER! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!<\/p>\n

This book had a surprise ending, an ending that I’m still trying to
\ngrasp and make sense of. Kevin, a divinity school student has suddenly
\nbeen plagued by disturbing phone calls by a man named Slater. Slater
\nasks a riddle, giving Kevin an amount of time to respond. If he doesn’t
\nrespond, Slater retaliates by setting off a bomb. Slater accomplishes
\nhis bomb threats in the book, and when the FBI gets involved, things get
\npretty heated since Slater does not want cops involved with his “game”
\nwith Kevin.<\/p>\n

Jennifer, an FBI agent, is attracted to Kevin. She finds his childlike
\ncuriosity, and his quiet nature to be appealing.<\/p>\n

As Jennifer works on the case, she encourages Kevin to try and uncover the
\nreal identity of Slater. Slater says he’ll stop his threats if Kevin
\nwill confess his sin. Kevin assumes Slater is a boy he knew many years
\nago, whom he’d left in an abandoned building to die. Kevin assumes
\nSlater is back to get revenge on him since he tried to “kill” him by
\nleaving him in the building with no means of escape. Kevin did this act
\nonly to save his best and only friend Samantha(Sam). Sam also comes to
\nKevin’s rescue when he contacts her, telling of how his car exploded.<\/p>\n

Sam and Kevin have deep feelings for one another, but they never
\npursued a relationship because they don’t want to mess up their
\nfriendship by having a romance.<\/p>\n

After many twists and turns, threats by Slater, and probing by Jennifer
\nand Samantha, it’s discovered, over a four-day period of time(and a
\nlittle over four hundred pages) that Kevin, Slater, and Samantha are all
\none person! Kevin has multiple personalities and he assumes that Slater
\nand Samantha are people he’s known from his past, but they actually
\ndon’t exist.<\/p>\n

I keep thinking about this book because I’m trying to piece together
\nhow plausible it was to have such extended scenes and conversations
\nbetween Sam and Kevin and Kevin and Slater. It’s hard for me to picture
\nthis, however, I guess, once the truth has been revealed, the reader
\nwould just need to assume that all of the details of the events happened in
\nKevin’s head. I know this type of mental disorder does indeed exist, and it’s hard for me to imagine seeing people, having conversations with them for extended periods of time, and they’re really not there. I guess it’s kind of like when you are dreaming, it seems real, but you wake up and know it’s a dream. With this type of mental disorder, I’d think it would be like you were dreaming, except it happens when you are awake, and you are not aware that the people you are talking to are not real?<\/p>\n

This story reminded me of a Sidney Sheldon title I read years ago
\ncalled Tell Me Your Dreams<\/a>. In Sheldon’s book it was a woman who was the main character, and she had two other personalities. There is a string of murders involved in this book. It’s hard for me to remember all of the details of this book clearly since I read it several years ago.<\/p>\n

If anybody reading this has read Thr3e, feel free to post your comments.<\/p>\n

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Until next time,
\nCecelia Dowdy
\nwww.ceceliadowdy.com\/books<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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