The Bell Maker: A True Seeker's Tale

by Chris Bowen

Wanted and Welcomed. Seekers of all kinds. Come take a little comfort and refuge from the Great Age of Sound. Discover what the ancient bell makers knew. Find what all people once knew. Travel yourself for a few hours and you may find it to be still true today. Sadly, the bell makers, over time, were replaced by noisemakers. They peddled work with little purpose and great distractions to fill what they called the emptiness inside. No one before then knew it was called empty. Folks then, saw it more as the vast endlessness of possibility. But soon, the people were so filled with noise, they could no longer hear themselves. They could no longer hear the voice within. The people became so filled with noise and distraction they had no room left inside for even one more clear, radiant note from a bell. This began The Great Age of Sound. But, before The Great Age of Sound, there were bell makers. And they were magic. This is the story of one such man.

194 pages, Paperback

First published May 27, 2014

Reviews

[Adolfo Lopez]

The book The Bell Maker by Chris Bowen is an amazing book. The book goes through a kid who tries to forget about his fantasy and his magic as he begins to grow up. The kid goes through a bunch of twist and turns. I gave this book 4 stars because there was some parts that got me lost but overall it was a good book. I recommend this book to people who likes magic and fantasies.

[Bailey Canham]

The novel "The Bell Maker: A Seeker's Journey" by Chris Bowen is a wonderful book that was insanely good. The main reason why I liked this book so much was the story line. It was very interesting to think about a "perfect" society where everyone is in perfect sync and solves their problems together as one. I wish our world worked like that. The other reason I liked the book so much was the amazing descriptions that Chris Bowen included in his book. I felt like I was really in the town and was experiencing the same things as the Bell Maker. I loved this novel from the first page to the last chapter and would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys good dystopian stories.

[Amy Brown]

I recently read The Bell Maker by Chris Bowen. I really enjoyed this book. A young man who is trying to mature and give up on all this magic and fantasies experiences the loss of his grandfather. His one question evolves a wonderful bell that just suddenly isn't in his grandfathers home. As he is trying to give up on this all and avoid truly feeling the death of his grandfather magic strikes. He gets a series of notes from his grandfather and gains something big. He journeys on this grand exploration of learning about his grandfather and who and what he did. He receives a story, that changes his new journey in life. I really enjoyed this story and the lessons thought of and explained.

[Jonathan Esparza]

i loved the bell maker. it tells us about how we can live without modern "needs" like for example, you don't need tv, or internet, radio, or cars. you can live happily without these modern appliances really like and the way it is written its as if YOU are the bell maker or if you are the person reading it in the far future.

[Antonio Becerril]

The Bell Maker: A Seeker's Journey by Chris Bowen is about a grown man that used to live with his grandfather when he grew up however he became less consistent when it came to visiting.| Mainly because he was giving up his belief in magic, when he was a boy he believed in magic and he later started to lose his belief in magic which resulted no longer wanting to stay inside the cabin in the woods with his grandfather.| He later learned his grandfather was actually magic and he believed that you shouldn't have more than what you need which is why he only owned a few things and lived in a small cabin, however he believed that the little bell he had everyone needed it.| He finally succumbs to his reality and he follows his grandfathers path of being a hippie(more or less )| This was a great overall book I would recommend it to any body and I am not just saying this because my teacher wrote and I am trying to get extra credit.

[Joseph]

In The Bell Maker, by Chris Bowen, I like the theme of being thankful. Although you may not take the elderly serious, this book can show you another perspective. Don't get me wrong, the elderly can be a pain in the butt. But this book represents the back story behind every item.

[Sebastian]

In the book " The Bell Maker: A True Seeker's Tale" by Chris Bowen, there is a boy whose grandpa had gone missing and he was given a note that said 'find the shovel' and he found the shovel. He started digging immediately and he finds a letter that explains how the village was really christian. Then the village leader decides that he with being christian. After a while the boy decides to tell the story and he finds out that his grandpa was the bell maker.