Mike's Thoughts about Tiny Eden
"Hi! My name is Mikey Martins. I am 17 now. I have read the original Tiny Eden and have been lucky enough to read the re-edited version long before it went back to the printers.
The 3rd edition just "rocks"!
The
book is amazing! I often wonder if
Günter has used the term "fiction" as a joke. The story is so
real! As a teenager the stories are for me amazing! They show me a
world so real and so void of the "B.S." of modern society. Stories
about love and forgiveness. About the environment and harmony with
nature. Stories about solutions rather than problems.
What is so amazing about Tiny Eden is its
"prophetic nature". Mind you that Günter wrote this book way
before the tragic events of 9/11! When he says he published it in late
1999, it meant that he had it written and finished the book way before
this date.
What also impressed me so much was the
understanding that "politics are always personal". Tiny Eden shows that
a personal decision can have a world wide impact. It kind of holds the
mirror to society and one self.
I have urged Günter to post a few excerpts
from the book on this web-site. He let me choose the ones I liked most.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and do.
Mind you, this Tiny Eden is just the 1st of a
total of 8 books of this series. I had read the other 2 that are soon
to be published. They are even better than the 1st! I also seen the
remaining books in their various stages of being written.
Günter writes with the idea that even us
teens can understand the stories and find stuff that we can take from
them and make them a part of our daily lives. I often re-read the
stories that had had such a big impact on my life. When things go
wrong, I go back to reading Tiny Eden and somewhere in the many stories
is the solution that I am looking for.
I hope you enjoy it as much as my friends and I do.
Mikey