Great Stuff From Walter Mosley -- As Usual

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	• The Tempest Tales Walter Mosley Black Classic Press, 2008 - 190 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Will hell be his keeper?

Tempest Landry, Is a man in the wrong place at the wrong time with doing things he shouldn't he shot down by mistake.He shows us how he is not going to hell and how he fights to show that he is not a sinner. I love how angel come in and take over and how his life chance. A good reading its different.

The Wages of Sin

Tempest Landry was at the wrong place at the wrong time when he was fatally shot and killed by the police. Which was a mistake of identity.

Standing in line to be judged by the man upstairs. Tempest discovers his sins and explains that he did what he did for the love of his family and friends. He is condemn to hell by St. Peter. Not taking his fate lightly he refuses to be sentence to eternal damnation.

Three years later, Tempest reappears back on earth in another body not recognized by his friends and family. Also sent with him is the accounting angel Joshua who is there to monitor his progress and to help reexamine the circumstances of his past life. Constantly, debating over the issues of right and wrong, Joshua tries to get Tempest to admit that he is a sinner and deserves damnation, but he is not giving in. He brings in a 3rd party name Bob who represents Lucifer and the story gets really interesting.

The Tempest Tales is a novel that I couldn't put down. Its gives you a glimpse of the after life and a sense of what you can expect. Also you will get the do's and don'ts of having eternal life and/or damnation. This is my first read of Mr. Mosley's work. He is an excellent writer, and I will be reading more of his books in the future.

Tangerine, Reviewer
Reader's Paradise Book Club

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Tempest Tales

Excellent! Great page turner that confronts the Heaven vs hell as never before. I hope to hear more from the cagey and witty Tempest.

Great Stuff From Walter Mosley -- As Usual

Usually I review nonfiction business and career books in the "Bud's Books column on my ezine. However, I just read a great novel by Walter Mosley, and I felt compelled to feature it in the latest edition and to post it here.

The Tempest Tales is the story of Tempest Landry. As the story begins, Tempest is mistaken for another man and shot and killed by the police. When he gets to the Pearly Gates, Saint Peter sentences him to hell for his sins. However, Tempest takes exception with Saint Peter's definition of sin. He refuses to go to hell and explains that his "sins" are merely things he had to do - for his family, friends and love - and to survive.
Tempest gets sent back to earth - with an angel, whose job is to convince him to accept his sins and his judgment of eternal damnation.

This is when it gets interesting. Tempest and the angel spar over the notion of right and wrong. Tempest does his best to convince the angel that acts, in and of themselves, are neither good not sinful. They must be viewed in context. The angel is very perplexed by the notion of shades of gray. Things are black and white in his world.

I like this book for a couple of reasons. First, like all Walter Mosley books, it is well written. Second, it makes an important point about human relations. No one should presume to judge another human being until he or she has stood in the other person's shoes.

In my new book, "Straight Talk for Success", I point out that successful people, among other things, are interpersonally competent. If you want to become interpersonally competent, you need to develop empathy for your fellow human beings.

Things that may seem strange to you, might be perfectly logical from another's perspective. In The Tempest Tales, Walter Mosley takes you for in interesting and enjoyable ride as he goes about proving this point.

If you're the kind of person who doesn't read fiction thinking that it is a waste of time, pick up and read a copy of The Tempest Tales. You'll see that helpful career and life success messages can, and often do, come in novels.

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Tempest Landry, an everyman African American, is ?accidentally? killed by a cop. Denied access to heaven because of what he considers a few minor transgressions, Tempest refuses to go to hell. Stymied, Saint Peter sends him back to Harlem, where a guiding angel tries to convince him to accept Saint Peter's judgment, and even the Devil himself tries to win over Tempest?s soul. Through the street-smart Landry, Mosley poses the provocative question: Is sin for blacks the same as it is for whites? And who gets to decide?

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