Book Review :
"The Seeker In Forever" By Alan Fox

Published By "The Electric Review"

Reviewed By Miranda Orso
January/February 2008 Issue  

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ORSO’S RECOMMENDATIONS

As we move head-long into 2008, Miranda Orso, contributing writer to "The Electric Review," offers these recommendations for New Year's stocking-stuffers:

THE SEEKER IN FOREVER. Alan Fox. StoryFocus Communications.

Be forewarned -- you may need a tab or two of Dramamine to navigate through the mind-bending world that’s been created by novelist Alan Fox in "The Seeker in Forever," as this flight through the imagination requires a full and complete appreciation for the raw, elemental beauty of the human experience.

In "The Seeker in Forever," Fox builds a surreal yet engrossing series of poignant characters that tell an enchanting story of a young man and woman as they are thrust into a world gone weary with corruption (the "he-being" Miles Roark and the "she-being" Daphne Fox left alone to defend themselves against the unknown and its vast ‘unreality’).

Throughout the story, the duo’s fight to understand reality is a struggle strewn with brutal physical exchanges and philosophical feelings, as well as with moments of enticing sexuality – the audience introduced into a whirlwind of life’s pleasures and pain as seen through the eyes of two searching specters.

For example, at one point in the story, Miles, in the company of his deluded mentor, Scofield, questions the idea of existence itself; and Fox writes:

"Difficulties, slaps, and knocks, blows. Hammerholds and hammering death. Troubles…this was where the trip took on its full force gale. And all of the people in this world. All of the people, in this whole wide world . . ." (Page 91).

As the story unfolds, Fox directs us down a path where every twisting turn results in visceral reactions from mind and body – it’s almost as if the author is waiting for the audience to stand up and say: "Here’s to being wild! Make every moment come alive. . . . Here’s to being wild as wild can be!"

And there’s no doubt that life and its journey (as told by Fox) are anything but boring; the lucid landscape he paints in this book creates an engrossing fantasy-world that tells the tale of battles being waged in both the internal and external world.

Ultimately, it’s a story that has no end.

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Miranda Orso is a freelance writer and avid sport’s fan currently residing in Philadelphia. She graduated from Penn State University in 2002 with a degree in Journalism. Reach her through "The Electric Review."