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At first, this book seems to be about a a man who lives alone in a tin house far removed from civilization. Then a woman suddenly appears and moves in. Why she appears and what compells her to arrive, move in and take up with this man isn't obvious.
It helps to suspend any sense of reality when reading this one since the author makes no attempt to explain how this man and woman keep their food supplies stocked, how they spend most of their time etc. Even so, I found this to be an original and engaging book about the "battle of the sexes" even in the most minimum, sparest of circumstances.
Also, when I stopped trying to make "sense" of the situation described here, I realized that this book isn't about the real world as much as how men and women see things differently and how even a simple tin house in the middle of nowhere can become problematical for them. Different from the author's first two books, but a worthy successor all the time.


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Three to See the King A Novel Magnus Mills 9780312306106 Books Reviews

Three To See The King is Mills' third novel and its also his strangest. While his first two novels have a definite setting and time period, Three To See The King does not. Instead the story revolves around a man living alone on a windswept plain in a house of tin. Alone until Mary Petrie arrives, that is. Through his introduction Mills explores male/female relationships and we see our unnamed narrator change his ways. As his friends begin picking up (literally, their tin houses and all) and moving away, the narrator begins to realize that he might be missing something. Indeed when he investigates the spot where his former neighbors have chosen to live, he finds them clustered together in a large community of tin houses. All following one man on his quest to accomplish the impossible.
This is a story that operates on a few different levels. Like his previous works, Mills plops a character in the middle of the setting without any explanation. But his first two novels were grounded in reality - realistic settings, action and characters (for the most part).
I agree with previous reviewers. When you pick this one up, suspend all perception of reality. Take it at face value and interpret from what you're given. It could be a fable, could be a religious metaphor, could be a comment on our dreams of a utopia that can never exist. Or it could just be a story about a guy who lives in a tin house in the middle of a windswept plain.
Mills' first two novels, "The Restraint of Beasts" and "All Quiet on the Orient Express", were both masterpieces of absurdist black humor firmly grounded in a rural landscape both recognizable and slightly akilter. In his latest work, Mills again sets up a decidedly odd situation, but this time in a terrain so briefly sketched that it moves beyond the bounds of the "real" world and becomes fable. Here, an unnamed narrator lives alone in a tin house in a desert, separated from his nearest neighbors (also tin house-dwelling bachelors) by several miles. He apparently once harbored dreams of living in a canyon, but now is content to live alone; listening to the wind play against his tin house and sweeping sand clear from his house. If this hermetic existence sounds vaguely biblical, what with solo mediations in the desert and all, it's probably because Mills is riffing on the Book of Genesis.
This is further developed when a sharp and shrewish woman arrives on his doorstep unannounced and declares her intention to stay a while. This, quite naturally, upsets the order of things as the narrator is forced to alter his lifestyle in exchange for sex-which is about all he seems to find worthwhile in this new woman. Presumably the reader is here supposed to recognize Adam and Eve. The plot thickens when the narrator's neighbors, Simon, Philip, and Steve, visit and start to talk about a wonderful and mysterious newcomer to the area named Michael. He is apparently the bee's knees, and more and more people start showing up on the horizon, making their way to see Michael. From here, one doesn't want to give too much away, but the plot seems to serve Mills' desire to comment allegorically on the nature of religion, fanaticism, the search for faith and the meaning of life, free will, civilization, and a parcel of other concerns. The parable of the man who builds his house on a foundation of sand (i.e. no faith), only to have it crumble, appears to be the book's main touchstone, but Mills' playfulness makes the exact nature of his take on the parable somewhat ambiguous.
Those who enjoyed Mills' two previous novels will certainly find much to recommend this one, however it's a bit more distilled and indirect than those, and thus perhaps less striking. It also seems to be one of those books that rely to a certain degree on the reader being fairly conversant with the contents of the Bible. In the end, one has to be impressed by how many ideas Mills' economical prose can pack into a slim novella.
Mills is enormously popular in Europe, considerably less so here. This is an easy read, and is very much in the quirky style so typical of Mills. It's both hard to put down and hard to recommend. I have read all of his novels and enjoy them, but he is definitely an acquired taste.
Three to See the King is a fable, an ambitious one at that, about two races of people, those who prefer the comfort of their tin houses, and those more daring, ambitious creatures who would like to venture out of their tin houses and make abodes made of clay. This conflict is Mills' way of retelling the book of Genesis; it's all here, the conflict between Adam and Even, the need for faith, the search for God, the treacly conformity of "true believers." I enjoyed this short novel, but prefer Restraint of Beasts and All Quiet on the Orient Express, two novels with both feet deep in the soil.
At first, this book seems to be about a a man who lives alone in a tin house far removed from civilization. Then a woman suddenly appears and moves in. Why she appears and what compells her to arrive, move in and take up with this man isn't obvious.
It helps to suspend any sense of reality when reading this one since the author makes no attempt to explain how this man and woman keep their food supplies stocked, how they spend most of their time etc. Even so, I found this to be an original and engaging book about the "battle of the sexes" even in the most minimum, sparest of circumstances.
Also, when I stopped trying to make "sense" of the situation described here, I realized that this book isn't about the real world as much as how men and women see things differently and how even a simple tin house in the middle of nowhere can become problematical for them. Different from the author's first two books, but a worthy successor all the time.