The Muse and the Mechanism
The Muse and the Mechanism by Josh Davis
By all means, stick with this book. It is very much worth reading.
Apr 15, Katherine rated it it was amazing. From multiple soaps to Christmas with the family, this book gives the reader a sense of absurdity over the most mundane of human ceremonies. Fell's world, he seems to be the most reasonable character, until his own growing self awareness reveals his flaws. Great for a reader of any age, but probably most meaningful for those who are around Charlie's age twenty-somethings.
Dec 13, Joshua rated it it was amazing. Pretend Genius rated it it was amazing Apr 01, Julie Simmons rated it it was ok Jan 23, Stephen Alexander rated it really liked it Jul 08, Marcia rated it it was amazing Dec 29, Nicole Wiegand rated it really liked it Aug 01, Jess Davis added it Jul 04, Jane marked it as to-read Jul 23, Verbiwhore added it Apr 30, Along the way, we will watch his friends drink, fight, smoke innumerable cigarettes and less licit material. This outline of the fallen man recurs throughout the novel.
Its meaning is never clear but its power is significant and it is one of the motives that tie the book together despite the sprawl that results from the Kerouac influence. Lola is the young woman who lives with Charlie. For Charlie this is a progressive disaster as he finds himself less and less in sympathy with her and torn with the difficulties of making a reasonably painless break from her.
Her pursuit of him overlaps his pursuit of Grace, a young woman of great loveliness and what Charlie regards as serendipitous compatibility.
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That he deludes himself in this regard is proved by her rejection of him that takes the form of rather mean-minded evasions and self-centeredness. His love for Grace generates a series of letters, poetic insights and even a poem that adds enormously to the sum of his experience and makes the reader believe in him as a writer. His shorter, less intense but equally unsuccessful pursuit of Cassandra leaves him in isolation and he imagines at the end the sense of liberation that this gives him.
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Showing of 4 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Here is a book that is about living nowhere, trying to name unnameable fractures, being young and feeling old, spinning and swirling until you fall down. You should read it, not because it is about any of these things, but because it is young, because it feels old, because you probably don't read enough books these days, because you almost certainly don't read enough books this stumblingly graceful, and because it might make you fall down. Though the back jacket insists this is the author's second novel, Davis writes with all the confidence of a seasoned veteran.
His characters team with life and depth, each racing around the idiosyncrasies of their age mostly twenties with an all-too-familiar realism.
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His central character, Charlie Fell, is a classic literary idealist portrayed without much back story, or even a trace of a job, but is instead a strict present tense wonderer bent only only? He and his friends engage themselves in a seemingly endless series of domestic adventures, experimenting with the usual suspect substances, and handling romance as if it were a china dish at one moment, and a lit stick of dynamite the next.
By the closing chapters of the book, everyone seems to have become involved with everyone else, and the small town backdrop of Alton begins to stir with a palpable volatility. Starkly human, often funny, and thoroughly beautiful, this is not your average novel; rather it's a young author's imagination edging ever closer to the ideal. One person found this helpful. If you like Kerouac, If you've ever made a rug angel, If you've ever danced with abandon, If you've ever made a journey of the soul, If you've ever looked at the world through a haze of clarity Author josh davis certainly has a muse within