Have you ever Googled your own name and wondered about the people that you share it with? Well, Chris Eaton has and the result is a work of fiction centered around the lives of various male and female Chris Eatons along with a few other quirky characters.
Perhaps we all know, have met, crossed paths with, a Chris Eaton in our own lives? I know I have, he's a charming Englishman who works at our Sydney head office and briefly worked with me in Queensland a few years ago.
You won't find a linear story here, but what you will find is your life paralleled with one of the Chris Eatons within the narrative. Encompassing a broad spectrum of lives lived, this is by turns a funny but thought provoking novel. At various points I did think that I was re-reading Moby Dick with the amount of facts and figures being presented on a multitude of topics, whether true or not I'm not sure as I don't think that the narrator was altogether reliable at times, but some of it was very interesting.
I did, to my surprise, find myself really enjoying this book. It was very well written, and I was interested in many of the topics (punk rock, salt ...... otoliths). I could not believe the book included the obscure otolith! These little buggers are dominating my life at the moment, causing me severe vertigo at their worst and light headedness at their best, and no-one around me has ever heard of them, yet here they were speaking to me from the page (Kindle) LOL.
There were many thoughts, feelings and interactions in this novel that I could identify with, and it made me realise that we are ALL THE SAME. We don't need to share the same name to experience the same hopes, fears, loves and life lessons.
This really is something different to read, and I can recommend it as a well written thought provoking independent novel.
Maxine
Maxine
