The Agnostic

INTRODUCTION Before you begin reading this book, I would like to specify exactly what kind of book it is... "The Agnostic" is meant to be a Metamodernist and Maximilist novel... If you like books with an extensive array of words and figures of speech, this book will almost certainly tickle your fancy... You will notice within the first few paragraphs that I use a rather extensive vocabulary to describe what's going on, both in the...
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INTRODUCTION

Before you begin reading this book, I would like to specify exactly what kind of book it is...

"The Agnostic" is meant to be a Metamodernist and Maximilist novel...

If you like books with an extensive array of words and figures of speech, this book will almost certainly tickle your fancy...

You will notice within the first few paragraphs that I use a rather extensive vocabulary to describe what's going on, both in the scenery, and inside the minds of the characters.

"The Agnostic" is meant to be read like a Metamodernist epic poem, like "The Odyssey" or "The Iliad," but with a modern context, modern circumstances, and modern characters.

If you like novels that are challenging and a little crazy in the scheme of things, you will almost certainly enjoy this book, though difficult it may be at times.

However, if you like authors such as James Patterson or Stephen King, this is probably not the book for you.

"The Agnostic" is a novel written for poets, bohemians, intellectuals, and artists...

It is a novel with many technicalities and flights of fancy: mostly stream-of-consciousness...

The prose is meant to be surrealistic... the more you read into it, the more you will discern what it actually all means.

In reality, "The Agnostic" is made up of sixteen parts, each of them written in a different literary style, as I demonstrated in the table of contents just above the introduction... much like Ulysses but in a 21st century context.

I estimate my vocabulary to be somewhere between 180,000 unique words and 480,000 words altogether, including pluralizations, adverbs, and different tenses.

My justification for this rather large lexicon is that I believe that 'the more you expand your vocabulary, the more you expand your mind.'

Nevertheless, I believe that it is worth the investment of time that it will take you to read it all the way to the end...

This volume of The Agnostic contains:

-DR. ALCATRAZ
-THE BOHEMIAN
-UR-AMLETHUS
-AMLETHUS (I-VII)

MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW:

Erudite, iconoclastic, and truly exceptional, The Agnostic documents author Carl Melanson as an astutely gifted and imaginative novelist with an impressive command of language. As imaginative and unique as it is entertaining and thought-provoking, The Agnostic is a very highly recommended read...