Wanted! Novel lovers - especially for stories where negril is the setting!

[francis]

Curious about what Negril was like way back in the day when it all got started - even pre-Reggae?

ISLAND ODYSSEY is a novel set in the early 1970's in Negril, Jamaica, a pristine fishing village long before it became the thriving tourist resort that it is today. The international counter-culture generation that was seeking a simple life in a Garden of Eden paradise, found this beautiful jewel in the Caribbean and lived out their dreams. Their innocence, ideals, and money would influence and forever change the Jamaican people they had grown to love so much.

This was the era that gave birth to the worldwide influence of Reggae music and Jamaican culture, a phenomenon that attracted thousands of young people from around the globe to this beautiful island.

PURCHASE: Paper Back https://www.createspace.com/4258190
eBook Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/ISLAND-ODYSSEY.../dp/B005TVG54A

I am the author, making a pitch for all you folks who love to read while vacationing in Jamaica, or who want to take their minds back to that magical place.

Thank you for considering giving it a read!

Peace,
Francis

[johng]

Francis O. Lynn,

Although your book Island Odyssey is in many ways a nice read and love story, I find it quite shallow regarding Negril and its many attractions. You refer to caves on the cliffs and you refer to the island off Rockland point as being a mile offshore which clearly it isn't. Your use of "awesome" in dialogue diminishes the believability that the story was from that era. Ganja was there the sea was there but it isn't convincing that you the author was actually there as you use very few landmarks, people, to tell your story other than your Ghetto Flowers. I read this with anticipation that you would have more actual knowledge about Negril than it seems you do . You talk about people drinking Blue Mountain Coffee, False, Blue Mountains are 100 miles away and people always drank the instant coffee out of the glass jar in Negril because A. They didn't have BM Coffee and B. It was way too expensive. Another time you talk about the sun coming up over the mountain in Negril, again no mountains in Negril. As far as using this board as a launch pad to sell your book that isn't my call but Rob may have some opinion on that (Donating profits to the Negril Community perhaps?). In closing I found Island Odyssey to be a nice love story but the only thing about Negril in the book is it's name.

Cool Runnings (not awesome)

[Boogzy]

I've got news for you JOHNG. I sit on my front porch in Negril and watch the sun come up over the mountains each and every morning. Am I hallucinating? Help me out knowledgeable one

[Jim-Donna]

I absolutly LOVED this book. I laughed... and I CRIED........I wished I had found Jamaica when it was So Special~~

[johng]

Well Boogzy,

These are hills!!!
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I guess it all depends on what you call mountains, I suppose if you're talking about across the swamp toward grange hill, georges plain, little london way you are correct. The point I was trying to make was that Negril itself from the beach to the cliffs has no mountains. Are you hallucinating? That could very well be!!!!!

These are mountains!!!


"authorities regard eminences above 600 m (2,000 ft) as mountains, those below being referred to as hills."