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The Novel PUVI is essentially a meeting between East and West in a multicultural country, Malaysia. The book is set in 1967. This is the journey of a teenager Puvi, who experience enlightenment and goes beyond it. It is about his adventures with friends, as well as adults. The content is filled with human weakness, strength, friendship, bonds, feelings, successes and above all it celebrates life. As Puvi says: "Don’t make up, wake up!"
- Sales Rank: #1902191 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-07-14
- Released on: 2015-07-14
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Teck C. Neo was born 1956 in Malaysia. He is an artist, designer, dance choreographer, practitioner of meditation and martial arts. He just finished his first Novel "PUVI - Buddha Highway" and is currently working on two more novels: "1000 Faces of Major Lin" and "Shu". He lives in Berlin, Germany.
Learn more at: teckchengneo.com
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Needs professional editing
By Connie
The author has good intentions with this story, about a soon-to-be 14-year-old boy Puvi (short for "Pure Virtue") who meets the king spirit in a vision who eventually guides him to monkhood. But until Puvi becomes a Buddhist monk, he spends his summer days with his friends doing what boys his age do: they ride their bikes around their area villages to spend time with their peers and to spend time along the ocean. This is the nice part, as the author describes the tropical surroundings as they were in 1967 Malaya.
But there is a disconnect and the story comes across as choppy and full of gaps. Sometimes Puvi's observations sound like those of a wisened adult, but then he'll turn around and comment on his friend's unexpected erection, or he'll mutter an expletive. The sudden changes in mood and voice feel stifled and take away from the author's intent to impart some Buddhist philosophies. It is Puvi who is the center of all the characters in this story, and the relationships he has with some of the English and Scotsmen are revealed slowly as the chapters move on.
The other disconnect is the other story in this narrative, of the wealthy Britons in Malaya who fear for their safety as another "Emergency" has been announced. The main English characters here, Peter, Stella and a few others, all come across as one-dimensional. There is no character development or steady plot and too many people appear who have no other appearances in the story. The "East meets West" thus feels contrived and not well-connected, although there are some nice parts where the Christian English mingle with the Islamic and Buddhist locals. One learns that "a champion is always a 'he'" through dialogue with Puvi and his friends. Malaya history is revealed as it unfolded during World War II. Not all the native speak is translated for the reader, which is another hurdle to overcome.
The biggest weakness, however, is the poor grammar. English is clearly not the author's native language. A few errors wouldn't bother me, but there are glaring grammar, syntactical and semantical errors all throughout this read. In fact, this story needs a professional editor to smoothen the narrative out as the intent of the author gets sidetracked by the gaps in the story and the poor English.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A book for specific tastes, badly in need of a lot of TLC
By J Bryden Lloyd
Book Review: Puvi – Buddha Highway
by Teck C Neo
Reviewed by J Bryden Lloyd
Note: I was gifted a copy of this work for an honest read and review. The following review, as with all reviews, is my personal opinion of the submitted text.
Writing Style – 2.5/5.0 (Average)
It was hard to find the underlying structure of the story, as the book seemed to ebb and flow in a rather haphazard manner.
I can only really attribute this to the author’s first language NOT being English, as the effect on both narrative and dialogue was to produce a very jerky, sometimes clunky, sometimes over-formal text.
In fairness, it is clear that the author does have a good grasp of English, but the translation of this knowledge into written English is not of a particularly high standard, which does have a huge effect on the structure and readability.
The dialogue did not read very well, especially for the characters who were supposedly British. Terminology was often wrong, as was the vast majority of sentence structure, meaning that it was too easy to lose track of who was saying what. In fact, I found a good number of the conversations and exchanges between characters to be empty and without purpose.
At later points in the book, capitalised repetition of words and terms in the dialogue feel very childish and definitely unneeded. By this stage, I will admit I was losing interest in the book.
Character Development – 2.0/5.0 (Poor)
Although there are some very likeable characters, I really did not feel that any of them, beyond Puvi himself, really got chance to develop.
A lot of emphasis seemed to be placed on giving several primary and secondary characters very elaborate back-stories; the problem was that, for the most part, they were very difficult to follow and mostly unnecessary for the story, or served to give you information at very odd times.
I struggled to relate to any of the characters, and often got lost when one of a plethora of very random, unnecessary characters suddenly appeared in discussions or event descriptions. Indeed, the actual relationships between the characters (although explained) are far too complex to be arbitrarily dropped onto the unsuspecting reader, but this seems to be the norm throughout the book.
For me, this felt like a character-driven story with too many incidental characters being dropped into it (either by being present or just mentioned by name, with no explanation) and this stifled the read too much.
Descriptive – 3.5/5.0 (Good)
The big thing with the descriptive is that, when it was there it was very good, especially for the locations and atmospherics which were often excellent in their vivid detail.
Without doubt, the author showed a mastery of scene building throughout the read.
Unfortunately, beyond the opening few chapters, that mastery is never applied to the characters.
Occasionally, the scenes shifted in and out of what I would describe as ‘ethereal sequences’, where Puvi conversed or met with either other deities, or with characters. To me, these sequences seemed almost devoid of anything other than the conversations, thoughts or actions of one or two characters, and very often this switch was instantaneous within the read, which made everything feel a little confusing.
The descriptive revolving around the relationships between the characters often felt awkward, also.
There were a number of scenes where things felt broken, or when the timeline jumped back and forth, which made things far too complicated.
On occasion, it felt as though the author was holding back key details about the scene and the characters but keeping less important detail at the forefront, reverting to telling a story, rather than allowing the reader to feel their way through the plot and become involved.
Language & Grammar – 2.0/5.0 (Poor)
The biggest problem here goes back to the translation from a knowledge of spoken English, to very haphazard written English. A commonly used example is the word ‘munching’, for eating… a very childish word used by the author throughout. The occasional use of ‘mom’ and ‘mum’ by the same character in the same conversation.
There are a number of places where you see tiny evolutions in the writing; about a quarter of the way through, very incorrect contractions begin to appear, as if this has been a badly misunderstood grammar lesson.
But equally, the author uses random terms and phrases from his own culture without any form of explanation, which has the likely impact of confusing the reader.
Kuala Lumpur is referred to as ‘KL’… perfectly fine if you know what (or rather, where) ‘KL’ refers to, but baffling if you don’t, as it is never explained, but mentioned eventually at the end of the read.
As I mentioned earlier, the command of English is clear, but the knowledge to write it is lacking. Punctuation is too often incorrect. The text is littered with small, disjointed sentences which should clearly be part of the main body of the previous sentence.
The issues with incorrect tense, words and spellings are continuous throughout, and although you can attribute some of these, again, to the translation from broken, spoken English to the written page, it does have a huge effect on the readability of the book as a whole.
With direct reference to the dialogue, irrespective of the decade, Scottish people simply do not speak in the way depicted by the author, and as a very proud people, nor do they often act in the ways these few characters were portrayed.
This skewed view was incredibly off-putting, and spoiled what should have been strong, resilient characters, just to bring them into line with a doctrine they would not have been wired to understand.
Plot – 3.5/5.0 (Good) – VERY MINOR SPOILERS
I had to work hard to follow the plot and distinguish the central story from the many, varied sub-plots, as these seemed to crash into the main plot and pull the reader’s attention away from it.
As the story follows Puvi along the path of enlightenment and into the wondrous destiny awaiting him, a lot of time seems to be spent building his background. Indeed, the book takes place within a reasonably short timescale, as Puvi comes to understand and accept his destiny. This is not a negative, though I freely admit that I am not of a religious inclination and so did not understand whether the speed of this acceptance was exceptional or not, but there are times where you feel the read is becoming a chore, because some details are over-done due to the large cast of characters, which only ever seems to grow and become ever-more complex.
By the time the story actually moves to the monastery, the story itself seems to have already been eternally long, and where I had hoped the plot would settle, instead it turned to a more theological viewpoint, which in itself became very, very repetitious and (again) was a major distraction.
Sudden shifts in scene, from meetings with people to meetings and discussions with celestial beings and gods, is just one of a number of things which I found very confusing in the early part of the read, but eventually they seemed to have a purpose.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the first few pages of Chapter 27, which felt juvenile and awkward.
Although I realise the story is aimed at those who wish to be led into such doctrines, my personal feeling was that the ‘story’ simply stopped with Puvi’s arrival at the monastery, and although everything following this is clearly there for the purpose of ‘enlightenment’, unfortunately it did not resonate with me at all. My guess would be that there was too much Buddhist-specific terminology I was unfamiliar with.
Where the story itself seems to pick up again, in the last couple of chapters, felt very much an anti-climax to the read.
General – 3.0/5.0 (Okay)
This is most definitely a book aimed at those seeking spiritual answers and enlightenment through the story of Puvi. In that respect, I am certain this is an excellent read, which can be fully appreciated and experienced by those readers.
For me, this was a very interesting story but one which seemed to fall away as a story, and turn into something far more involved on a totally different level.
For all of the reasons above, I struggled massively with this book. It really wasn’t my thing at all and although I read each and every line on each and every page, by the end of the book I didn’t feel that I had read a story at all, as so many things were promised and never materialised.
For those with genuine interest in the content, I am certain this will be a brilliant read.
For me, unfortunately, it was not.
3 Stars… with apologies to a clearly hard-working author.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A delightful "We are all Buddhas" story
By Iris McGowan
Wow, Teck ... Thank you! I just finished the book and I must say that it has put me in a state of Joy. The main character was pure love and it made me so happy to be with him on the pages of the book. I feel that this young boy placed his hands upon my head (as he did to some in the story) and has filled me with light. I want to keep this feeling with me and shall remember to meditate more on unifying the light.
The ebb and flow was fine for me. It fit in with the way the story alternated from the character of an innocent boy in the physical world playing with his friends to the Puvi who slipped easily into a meditative world with spiritual masters gaining more and more wisdom for those who wanted to listen.
Thank you for another way of looking at light and darkness, desire and ignorance, and enlightenment ... Om Mani Padme Hum ... I believe I must read it again ... iris
PS ... I believe the story line builds and builds ... keep reading ...
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