Three to See the King: A Novel
by Magnus Mills
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Read in July, 2008
Pure genius and it was so close to home I'm sure he wrote it just for me. It's about a man who lives in a desert in a house of tin because he wants to get away from the world and listen to the rain hammering on his rooftop. This and that happens, and it turns into a cautionary tale about leadership. You have a vision and you build it on your own at first, then people join you and it's great for a while, but the more successful you get, the more people join, and they all make demands on you, and ...more
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Read in January, 2008
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Davidrecommends it for: weirdos like myself
This is a strange book written in a self-satisfied yet charmingly self-aware kind of shorthand. The spartan yet starkly intimate prose barrels you into odd almost sci fi parables of how people look to each other for philosophical clues and can quite naturally glom into societies around those who seem to have answers. By the ending (and its very nice payoff) you recognize that the classic storytelling has been there right along. I will have to read more from Magnus Mills.
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Read in July, 2007
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People are very strange, and by putting them in strange yet almost familiar environments Mills brings out our inherent strangeness beautifully. I could spend ages speculating about the symbolism of tin house vs. brick houses, and the sandy plain vs. the canyon, but I won't.
People are very strange, and by putting them in strange yet almost familiar environments Mills brings out our inherent strangeness beautifully. I could spend ages speculating about the symbolism of tin house vs. brick houses, and the sandy plain vs. the canyon, but I won't.
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GOD. Do not waste your time on this painfully slow, pointless book. It's like Mills had some indescribable and ridiculously long dream and tried to describe it blow-by-blow.
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Good spare writing. Nicely placed between a fable and a dream. Sort of existentialist i suppose.
Good quick read for a rainy afternoon.
Good quick read for a rainy afternoon.
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One of Mills more quirky books - if that's possible. Like all Mills' books - a quick and very entertaining diversion.
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