Max Mr D M Mitchell Books
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"There’s been so much happen to me, so many strange things. Terrible things. My mind is in a whorl, confused as to what I should relate first. Where to begin? I must describe my cell. After all, it has become my world. Strange, that I who once had the entire globe to choose from, am now confined within a twelve feet by twelve feet boundary." So writes Philip Calder. He is being kept a prisoner, alone, on a remote Scottish island. His life is shrunk to the stifling confines of his small room, a courtyard surrounded by high walls, and the sterile company of two uniformed guards whom he ironically names Morcambe and Wise. He is only allowed a pen and paper to break the monotony. So he writes. He writes about how he came to be there, starting at the beginning, when Maxwell Stone first came into his world. He relates how his world was altered forever when Connie Stone and her ten year old son Max moved into the small mining town of Overthorpe. It's the 1960s, and Connie causes a stir amongst the locals, for wearing bright lipstick, short skirts, and, the worst of all, being a single mother. Calder is at once captivated by her. Philip becomes friends with her son, but it is a strange, volatile relationship. Max is unfathomable, unpredictable, often violent, and as they grow older both Philip and Max vie for one young woman's attention - Ruby. But it's Max's strange fascination with wanting to be Philip Calder, to have his life, his identity, that triggers a series of unpredictable events that will lead to Calder's imprisonment. Gavin Miller is a successful author. He is in possession of Calder's manuscript, having been handed it by the manager of a nursing home called Overton Hall. He knows he must destroy it, because in it is laid bare his own dark secret. In it lies the seeds of his own ruin and why he is irrevocably tied emotionally and physically to the enigmatic Mrs Randolf. But who exactly is Gavin Miller? Who is Mrs Randolf? What is the truth behind Philip Calder's bizarre imprisonment on a remote Scottish island? Max is a brooding novel that twists and turns through the decades to explore the dark workings of a troubled friendship, a diseased mind, and the jealousies and hatred that leads ultimately to madness, deceit and murder. Will you be able to determine what is real, what is not? The clues are all there, if you know how to read them. Guaranteed to keep you guessing to its shocking and unexpected end, Max is Daniel M. Mitchell's darkest exploration of the human psyche yet.
Max Mr D M Mitchell Books
"Max" by D.M. Mitchell is a thriller that has all the ingredients you'd expect: A set of characters well distinguished of each other, a secret in the past that links at least two of them closer than they would like to, several crimes that may or may have not been committed by one of the main characters, and a remote and dramatic setting for some of the scenes.Philip narrates the story - or, rather, his side of it - from a first person singular perspective. His childhood was a very ordinary working class one during the 1960s in a small mining town in Yorkshire.
When he is 10 years old, a single mother and her son move to the neighbourhood, and nothing is ever going to be the same again: Connie, the mother, is different from any other women the boy has known so far; she dresses well, laughs a lot, loves music and life, in spite of it not having been all that good to her. Her son Max, whom she adores, is the opposite - often brooding, sometimes aggressive to the point of being violent, and not willing to conform to any of the rules of school and community life the other boys accept without questioning.
Philip is fascinated with Max, and the unlikely pair become something that from the outside looks like best friends. But as they grow up and Max reveals how he really feels about the other boy, things become decidedly darker.
The book switches from one character to the other, and often between past and present, with each chapter. How much of what the reader is told has really happened, and how much has only ever taken place in the imagination of the narrator? Have people in Max' way been killed or were their deaths the accidents or suicides they appeared to be at the time? Is the narrator now in danger of not only losing his freedom forever, but even his own life?
The switching between characters, times and places certainly kept suspense alive until the very end of the book. I found it well written with only a few errors that could have been discovered with thorough proof-reading, but it was free on Amazon's kindle shop - I can't complain about its overall quality and really did enjoy it.
The author was completely unknown to me, but should I come across more of his work, I know it will be worth my time.
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Max Mr D M Mitchell Books Reviews
Similar to Pulp fiction in the way the story is told, Max is what it is described as, a psychological thriller. With all the twists and turns I had no problem keeping up, I knew who a person was even if they had not been mentioned for several chapters. There was no time that I had to stop and think "I know that name, Who was that again?" the characters were memorial and fleshed out enough that you couldn't forget even the least of them. Max was an excellent book that I would have rated higher if I had not been disappointing with the ending. Whenever I thought I had the story figured out, or thought that I had the mystery solved I would be proven wrong with the next chapter, that at least kept me reading. Anyone who was a fan of the television show St. Elsewhere can probably guess what kind of ending this story had.
I could not stop reading D.M. Mitchell's "Max". His writing style is as original as his story. I admire his ability to use words to capture emotion. I've never quite experienced anything like it. It reached into emotions I had forgotten I had and pulled them to the surface. The chapters are not chronologically ordered which adds mystery to an already highly creative book. The past, present and future expressed out of sequence throughout the book adds to the tension and suspense and draws the reader in more fully adding a dimension of nightmarish quality to the novel. I loved how he teased the reader with the mystery inherent in the book and his mysterious style. He has become my newest favorite author. Thanks for the inspiration.
Leah
This was my third D.M. Mitchell book. After reading Mouse and the Soul Fixer I was really looking forward to Max. What a disappointment! I made myself trudge through it just to see what the author was trying to do. The entire book is written from the perspective of someone who turns out to be crazy placed on a background of the real events. But the reader doesn't know that so you are left reading endless pages about people who seeme to have no relevance. Then just to add to the confusion one of the main characters name is changed to the same one as a character earlier in the book. That is what this book should have been titled Confusion. I may give his books one more try with the hope this one was just an experiment.
I didn't know what to expect from this book as the reviews seemed to be wide rangeing. It was a little confusing in the beginning, but I perservered and I am so glad I did as I really enjoyed this book. Would have given it three and a half stars, but I don't know how to do a half. Mitchell has written a dark tale about two young school boys and their complex friendship.There are a few clues and loose threads throughout the book which Mitchell tidies up nicely in the end. For the price I paid I consider it very good value.
The very beginning of this book really confused me. I was completely lost for quite some time. It's not that the book was bad, I found myself getting interested every once in a while and in other spots being totally confused. I kept hoping that I would be drawn in to this book by finding out why this man is locked in a room on an island. The problem was that the story was so broken up that I felt I was reading two separate stories that keep pulling you out of one into the other and left me wondering who all these characters were.
I kept reading anyway as I hate leaving a book unread. The story comes together and the twists are reveled it finally picks up. I never saw it coming and it definitely was a better ending than the book was as a whole. It is not the kind of "can't put it down till finished" book.
"Max" by D.M. Mitchell is a thriller that has all the ingredients you'd expect A set of characters well distinguished of each other, a secret in the past that links at least two of them closer than they would like to, several crimes that may or may have not been committed by one of the main characters, and a remote and dramatic setting for some of the scenes.
Philip narrates the story - or, rather, his side of it - from a first person singular perspective. His childhood was a very ordinary working class one during the 1960s in a small mining town in Yorkshire.
When he is 10 years old, a single mother and her son move to the neighbourhood, and nothing is ever going to be the same again Connie, the mother, is different from any other women the boy has known so far; she dresses well, laughs a lot, loves music and life, in spite of it not having been all that good to her. Her son Max, whom she adores, is the opposite - often brooding, sometimes aggressive to the point of being violent, and not willing to conform to any of the rules of school and community life the other boys accept without questioning.
Philip is fascinated with Max, and the unlikely pair become something that from the outside looks like best friends. But as they grow up and Max reveals how he really feels about the other boy, things become decidedly darker.
The book switches from one character to the other, and often between past and present, with each chapter. How much of what the reader is told has really happened, and how much has only ever taken place in the imagination of the narrator? Have people in Max' way been killed or were their deaths the accidents or suicides they appeared to be at the time? Is the narrator now in danger of not only losing his freedom forever, but even his own life?
The switching between characters, times and places certainly kept suspense alive until the very end of the book. I found it well written with only a few errors that could have been discovered with thorough proof-reading, but it was free on 's kindle shop - I can't complain about its overall quality and really did enjoy it.
The author was completely unknown to me, but should I come across more of his work, I know it will be worth my time.
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