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Post by rogerbuck on Dec 16, 2019 16:19:55 GMT
The Gentle Traditionalist Returns - along with shameless, self-promotion!
And yikes! I have only just heard from my publisher that it may be tomorrow - not Friday as I thought!
I hope no-one here may object to my starting this thread ... with Mal's most kind and generous review:
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Dec 16, 2019 16:40:03 GMT
The Gentle Traditionalist Returns - along with shameless, self-promotion! And yikes! I have only just heard from my publisher that it may be tomorrow - not Friday as I thought! I hope no-one here may object to my starting this thread ... with Mal's most kind and generous review: Best of luck with it, Roger! And feel free to promote the heck out of it here! (P.S., that also goes for anything else any other member wants to promote!) It's a great book and I hope it has all the success it deserves. |
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Post by Tomas on Dec 16, 2019 20:03:26 GMT
This will be a wonderful Christmas parcel 2019!
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Post by rogerbuck on Dec 17, 2019 20:07:57 GMT
And feel free to promote the heck out of it here! Mal, I do believe I shall take you up on that! ; - ) Thanks! And warm thanks to you Tomas. : - ) For the book came out a few hours ago! You can see it at Amazon here: mybook.to/GentleTradReturnsAnd if anyone here orders it through that link, I will also get a small commission from Amazon on the book, plus any other purchase during the same checkout. Dare I say I could use this ... (The same also applies for using my Amazon Author link in my signature down below.) And here is the cover!  |
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Dec 18, 2019 10:07:48 GMT
And feel free to promote the heck out of it here! Mal, I do believe I shall take you up on that! ; - ) Thanks! And warm thanks to you Tomas. : - ) For the book came out a few hours ago! You can see it at Amazon here: mybook.to/GentleTradReturnsAnd if anyone here orders it through that link, I will also get a small commission from Amazon on the book, plus any other purchase during the same checkout. Dare I say I could use this ... (The same also applies for using my Amazon Author link in my signature down below.) And here is the cover! Roger, that link just seems to bring me back here... |
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Post by rogerbuck on Dec 23, 2019 22:46:46 GMT
Aargh. Thank you, my friend!
Here is the real link for anyone who wants to revel in this masterpiece of sheer unadulterated genius and help me rake in the millions ... 
mybook.to/GentleTradReturns
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Post by rogerbuck on Dec 24, 2019 15:18:19 GMT
Well, I was in a very, very SILLY mood when I wrote the above, something which happens when I'm exhausted ... I thought I was signing off for Christmas, but a first review just appeared on the American Amazon page and I'd like to paste it here. Very grateful indeed to Peter Kwasniewski for this ... As noted above, earlier links in this thread don't work. This one should: mybook.to/GentleTradReturns |
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Post by Tomas on Jul 10, 2020 14:06:50 GMT
The final chapters and Afterword gave the whole sequel story a good weight in bringing up like two allies "the New Age mindset" and the Globalist "Powers To Be". This was a book that made one think again.
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Post by rogerbuck on Jul 12, 2020 22:41:44 GMT
The final chapters and Afterword gave the whole sequel story a good weight in bringing up like two allies "the New Age mindset" and the Globalist "Powers To Be". This was a book that made one think again. Tomas, warm thanks for this! Yes, this is indeed a key point to the book that New Age spirituality naturally supports Globalism and globalist consumerism, whereas Christianity, real Christianity, genuinely threatens it. Or as the Gentle Traditionalist himself says in the new book: I'm very glad you saw what I was getting at, Tomas. IMHO, so many conservatives and traditionalists are hardly aware of the New Age as the "natural" spirituality of Globalism, which is a major reason I wrote the book. I shall now (ahem, cough, cough) stoop so low as to placing a global Amazon link to the book, in case anyone reading this wants to check it out:
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Post by Séamus on Oct 2, 2020 11:57:28 GMT
As I have never to date managed internet purchases I have only now managed to get a copy of The Gentle Traditionalist (although I was aware of it being available in Melbourne before this) and hope to post any personal reflection when I manage to complete this. If Mr Roger doesn't mind.
The particular Irish context ties in with a headline I just noticed "Europe On Edge [over Caucasus]"...it's not (or not just) that the modern and wealthy Muslim nation of Azerbaijan and the ancient Christian state of Armenia have had tensions flare up- I would have imagined that Azerbaijan had become something of a pre-Erdogan Turkey to western secularists, especially since the 2011 Eurovision- a forward thinking non-Christian holy grail. But whatever it is has brought no era of peace to the area and now the EU is concerned.
The same region produced Aram Khachaturian, considered the old USSR's greatest composer. Was it strange that his signature piece was used as a soundtrack for a western drama during the height of the Cold War? Or is it a vision of which things can indeed cross barriers?
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Post by rogerbuck on Oct 16, 2020 21:46:16 GMT
As I have never to date managed internet purchases I have only now managed to get a copy of The Gentle Traditionalist (although I was aware of it being available in Melbourne before this) and hope to post any personal reflection when I manage to complete this. If Mr Roger doesn't mind. No, of course not - and thank you so much Seamus, both for this and other things you've said, that I fear I haven't responded to as well as I'd like. I'm finding internet fora - even this truly fine one (never known a better one!) - difficult right now, for reasons I may explain or at least indicate in another thread. And I will just add that, indeed the various sympathies with faraway Caucasus seem hardly faraway from Ireland at all . . . |
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Post by Séamus on Oct 20, 2020 2:10:21 GMT
As I have never to date managed internet purchases I have only now managed to get a copy of The Gentle Traditionalist (although I was aware of it being available in Melbourne before this) and hope to post any personal reflection when I manage to complete this. If Mr Roger doesn't mind. No, of course not - and thank you so much Seamus, both for this and other things you've said, that I fear I haven't responded to as well as I'd like. I'm finding internet fora - even this truly fine one (never known a better one!) - difficult right now, for reasons I may explain or at least indicate in another thread. And I will just add that, indeed the various sympathies with faraway Caucasus seem hardly faraway from Ireland at all . . . Very well done Mr Buck. And I had no idea who the main protagonist was until the end. For me, the freshness of the book lies in the way you synthesized the whole modern situation, from morality to depleting Catholic practice to lack of cultural and national awareness (concentrating mostly on Ireland there) to consumerism,with this effecting the environment. Any time is appropriate to read it but I kept thinking of the current situation in the American Supreme Court,losing a judge who championed everything Mr.GT sadly mentioned, with hopes of a very different successor. Kissing frogs wasn't as exaggerated as GT supposed. A relation of my own (I'll say 'was'...she's far from back as a confirmed Catholic) was going through an Anna O'Neill-stage and attended an homoeopath-of-sorts in South America for a bad leg;he used a mild dose of poison-arrow frog toxin which brought her to death's door (and hopefully taught her not to consent to amphibian poisons again). As we also had the feast of St Margaret Mary last weekend,the role of the Sacred Heart devotion was timely reading for me also. Our traditional mass chaplain used a simple vestment with the Sacred Heart image made by a Carmelite nun who, although she's in an ordinary form monastery,is happy to include maniples and burses,which are rare today on a universal level. And an antidote to all the confusion (apart from poison-arrow frogs) is spelt out in the story's end,with the happy couple dedicating themselves to their own calling. Anna could do no more or no less;she'd probably been around a bit too much to really consider a traditional vocation,but the heroic victims of this world can be out of reach for emulation- the simple Annas can teach others to trod along doing what we can in 2020. |
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Post by rogerbuck on Oct 28, 2020 11:48:32 GMT
Very well done Mr Buck. And I had no idea who the main protagonist was until the end. For me, the freshness of the book lies in the way you synthesized the whole modern situation, from morality to depleting Catholic practice to lack of cultural and national awareness (concentrating mostly on Ireland there) to consumerism,with this effecting the environment. Any time is appropriate to read it but I kept thinking of the current situation in the American Supreme Court,losing a judge who championed everything Mr.GT sadly mentioned, with hopes of a very different successor. Kissing frogs wasn't as exaggerated as GT supposed. A relation of my own (I'll say 'was'...she's far from back as a confirmed Catholic) was going through an Anna O'Neill-stage and attended an homoeopath-of-sorts in South America for a bad leg;he used a mild dose of poison-arrow frog toxin which brought her to death's door (and hopefully taught her not to consent to amphibian poisons again). Wow . . . I'm grateful for your confirmation that line in the book, which was meant as just a joke. Apparently not! As we also had the feast of St Margaret Mary last weekend,the role of the Sacred Heart devotion was timely reading for me also. Our traditional mass chaplain used a simple vestment with the Sacred Heart image made by a Carmelite nun who, although she's in an ordinary form monastery,is happy to include maniples and burses,which are rare today on a universal level. And an antidote to all the confusion (apart from poison-arrow frogs) is spelt out in the story's end,with the happy couple dedicating themselves to their own calling. Anna could do no more or no less;she'd probably been around a bit too much to really consider a traditional vocation,but the heroic victims of this world can be out of reach for emulation- the simple Annas can teach others to trod along doing what we can in 2020. Thank you very, very much Seamus for all these kind words, and just for "getting" what I'm trying to do here about tradition as well as looking at modernity through the lens of Ireland. I will just add I am hoping to find some time for this important forum. I think there are some new members on board and I think it might help if there were a greater variety of posts and posters evident here for new folk to see. So I want to find time to give a bit more energy here. Though time is ever the problem . . . |
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Post by Tomas on Aug 10, 2023 8:07:07 GMT
Will there be a third installment in the Gentle Traditionalist series to be hoped for?
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Post by rogerbuck on Mar 16, 2024 1:09:58 GMT
Tomas, sorry I never see this! Just finding social media increasingly difficult these days . . .
But I'm very grateful for your interest.
And as I managed to reply to you elsewhere I do tend to think there will be . . . one day.
I imagine it being bigger, maybe considerably bigger, far more complex and needing to deal with how complex, dark and difficult the 2020s have become with the virus, lockdowns, vaccine, Ukraine, Gaza and etc.
I still struggle to understand many of these things. I'm in quite a learning curve especially re NATO since the Ukraine war.
But I'm not finished learning and when I've struggled enough and got clearer, I do imagine a 3rd book will eventually come.
And again thank you and bless you for your interest!
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