Infinity: An Anonymous Biography, by Nico Laeser
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A seven-year-old boy is hit by a car and momentarily separated from life. When his eyes reopen, he can no longer discern the boundaries between reality and delusion, or perhaps between this life and the next. After a childhood spent battling mental illness and nightmares that blend with waking life, he will spend the rest of his life within the periphery of society, displaced, discarded, addicted, and desperately searching for a place in this world, fighting against an intensifying downward-spiraling current.
Infinity: An Anonymous Biography, by Nico Laeser- Amazon Sales Rank: #1333878 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-25
- Released on: 2015-03-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Infinity - It seems like such an incongruous word in a world that strives ... By IAN D. MOORE Infinity - It seems like such an incongruous word in a world that strives for order, a world lead by technology that shapes our very lives to the point that it can change the way we eat, sleep and work. Nico somehow manages to take the lead character, a seven year old boy, doing what ordinary seven year olds do and from there, create a truly mesmerising account of his troubled life - seemingly after death. The narrative is beautifully created in such a way that emotions felt by the boy are transferred to the reader, in doing so, the different levels upon which this story is created become apparent. There are so many layers folded neatly upon each other that this novel will have you thinking about it long after you have put it down - and that's not easy to do. Such was my captivation with this book, the need to follow the harrowing young life as it unfolds into violence from his father, ignorance and denial from his mother, to an almost natural state of progression spiralling downward, that I found myself reading well into the night. I cannot say that there is a definite turning point where my perception of what might come began to peak, I can though, state hand-on-heart that this book is quite profound in it's perception of life, of it's true meaning and of the notions and expectations of redemption that we place upon higher powers. Viewing the world through the eyes of first the young boy, mistreated and made to feel worthless, right through to the teenager and young man, there were many times when I would have jumped head-long into the story to save him from further harm, to guide him. Having now finished the book, I can see that my actions would have been futile - not least because from the very first line, the young boy is already on the path to saving himself - it's just that we, as the reader, don't have the perception to figure that out at that point.The ability of the author to depict scenes in the readers mind's eye is nothing short of staggering, I could see the artistic impressions that emanated from somewhere deep inside the lead character, impressioned upon stretched canvasses, as if I were looking over his shoulder at the finished piece. The feeling generated by the descriptive chapters about the effects of narcotics upon the younger boy, coupled with the inevitable growth to stronger, more addictive substances sees him hit rock bottom to the point where I thought there might be no recovery but then, as the story begins to morph with subtlety, we find that the beginnings of enlightenment find their way into the readers mind until BAM! I finally realised what the journey was about and it left me completely in awe.This novel is nothing short of fantastic, it epitomises everything I could hope for in a story and yet, there isn't an explosion, sex scene or overly oppressive character in sight, save for the spider. I have Nico Laeser's Skin Cage primed and ready upon my Kindle and I'll be getting to that with great expectation having been blown away by Infinity. This author just earned himself another dedicated fan - justifiably so.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful, poignant, truthful, unforgettable By Lesley Hayes Just occasionally I read a novel and feel that the author already lives inside me – that they have travelled the same journey as me, and seen the things I’ve seen and know the things I know: not just ordinary things, but deep things, painful things, strange things, paradoxical mind-altering things – the things that can only be known by falling deep into the dark mysterious heart of what it means to be human. That’s how I feel about ‘Infinity’. It’s one of the most beautiful, poignant, truthful novels I’ve ever read, and one that I won’t forget and will almost certainly read again, if only for the sheer poetry of the language. Nico Laeser is a consummate artist of the written word.“I searched all around the room for somewhere to hide the truth seeping from my eyes...” says the anonymous narrator of this novel in one of the earliest chapters. And a little later on: “I stepped inside with the learned stealth of small prey among large predators...” We read the heartrending account of his young life, from his near death experience on the first page through a distressingly abusive and neglectful childhood, all the way out to a troubled, perverse kind of escape and beyond in his adolescence and early manhood.The imagery is just beautiful. To attempt to describe it would be like trying to sum up a huge canvas by a master like Chagall. It sang. It throbbed. It scared me and delighted me. This is writing at its lyrical, faultless, image-rich best.I wanted at times to climb inside the pages of the story and rescue the child, and then the bewildered child still inside the almost man, knowing that it was already too late, and the best I could offer was to bear witness to his suffering. At the midpoint of the book is a poignant quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, which is an explanation, in part, for the whole premise of the novel:‘Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.’In the second half of the book the narrator’s story takes another direction – or perhaps the same direction viewed from another perspective. There are so many layers in this book that you take from it what you will, as a reader. It is, on one level, a journey of the self towards enlightenment and fulfilment in the same tradition as Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5.Some may find the eventual ending tragic; some may see it as transcendent. I was deeply touched by it, and a little awestruck. Nico Laeser is a writer who deserves acclaim, who makes the label ‘indie author’ one to be proud to carry. I will be reading every book he writes, and already have ‘Skin Cage’, his second novel.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A work of art is never finished By SGS Infinity is a surreal and slightly strange book. In some ways it is a saga about death, in four parts. These represent the four journals that the main character writes and leaves behind as his legacy. If this sounds morbid, it is only because the main character has been waiting to die, and toying with death since he was seven years old. Those early life memories seem otherworldly and surreal.Book two represents his pre-adolescence, in which his persona appears sometimes disassociated with real life. The story is told in his journal in the first person perspective, so as a reader you become aware that events are actually happening in his life of which he remains consciously unaware.Book three represents his conscious decision to further remove his conscious awareness from life through the habitual use of heroin. The analogy he uses is chasing the dragon. You get a glimpse of the dragon in your first high, and you spend a lifetime, and a waste of your life forever chasing it, in order to recapture that feeling once again. Just like Parsifal who gets a glimpse of the Holy Grail in his youth, lets it slip away, and spends his life try trying to return to the same lost location. Here, the main character is in full realization that he will never ever get that close again unless he takes a life threatening dosage of the drug. The character of panda infuses the third book like a ghost. We have excerpts read from his own journals, and constant reference to his sage words. He was most welcome character who I liked and related to even though we only ever know him after his death. He adds an existential reasoning to the story through his interest in quantum realities and bespoke philosophy.By the fourth book, you realise that the main character has consumed the consciousness of panda and talks and thinks in a similar way as he rehabilitates his life after kicking his habit. He points out the Gnostic belief that no matter how bad life might seem, you should remember that you have actually chosen this very life. In the same manner that a virtual reality game player re-enters a game just before the point in which he is killed, in order to master the lesson and move past it. My favourite line however was a quote he remembers from Leonardo de Vinci which is very relevant... “a work of art is never finished just abandoned”.I very much enjoyed this book, for its rich language and quality of writing. I write too, and tend to describe scenes very visually. Nico Laeser on the other hand, describes scenes very much through feelings and sensations. He doesn’t want you to merely see it, he wants you to feel it and experience it.I am unsure whether by strange coincidence or by design, but Infinity is really a counting book. I discovered early on that the chapters are actually percentage markers; they mark the % of the book you have read. Hence chapter 68 will mark exactly 68% through the book; and it is the same for every chapter. The chapters also mark the percentage that the main character is through his life. I figured where he was taking me as I got closer to chapter 100 & 100%.
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