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Title: The Train Set

Author: Michael L. Eads

Narrator: Michael L. Eads

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-12

Publisher: Red San Publishing, L.L.C.

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Mark is the new kid at school who is ridiculed for his Midwestern tone and pants that are so short, the kids say he must be waiting for a flood. The only thing he knows for sure is that he hates everything about his life.

Then, one morning a few days before Christmas, he notices a rectangular shaped box under the Christmas tree. He starts to feel better knowing soon he will have something to help him escape reality.

Christmas morning finally arrives and Mark methodically puts together The Train Set piece by piece. He plays with his train set every available minute and it becomes his friend.

The Train Set is how an awkward, troubled boy and his father grow to understand each other. Mark realizes the greatest gift ever was the one he already had - the love from his father.

Members Reviews:

A Few Too Many Typos and the Random Bit of Preaching Thrown in Three Quarters in to Rate it Any Higher

The Train Set is a flashback to early stages in the narrator's childhood up to the year after he received a Train Set for Christmas and realised life wasn't all about his problems. The current era for the narrator is when the Vietnam War is still happening. The narrator is not a member of the popular groups at school, not helped by the fact that his father moves the family to Indiana, then back to Seattle a year or so later simply because it's too hot there for him. His flashback to the Indiana days revolves around his somewhat even more socially challenged friend, the good days and the bad after he relayed the news he was moving back to Seattle. Of course the final quarter of the book revolves around a train set he had bugged his father to get him for Christmas, hence the title.

It was a pleasant enough read, nothing great though, takes about twenty minutes to get through. The Train Set is unfortunately though riddled with typos such as principal being typed twice in a sentence, once correctly the other as principle. There's also random out of place words that just turn up in the middle of a sentence every now and then. Also it seems as if the author must have shares in Kmart, as that name is dropped a few times, such as he saw the train set on display in Kmart and in a completely different city he is in a Kmart car park when trolleys start moving by themselves. Then you've got God suddenly being preached three quarters of the way through. Adds nothing to the story. Without the typos, blatant Kmart promotions, and preachy sentences I would have rated the story three stars.

the train set

Very fun to read. Took me back to the "good old days" when you didn't need money to have fun as a kid. You made your own fun. Grat book five stars from me.

A fun quick read

Brought back some thoughts of my own childhood...I enjoyed the author's easy writing. I do wish it was a longer story.

Good read

I enjoyed the book as I was in many ways easily able to relate to it and the things that went on in it. Good solid characters, a good message and an overall fun read. Thanx!