The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer edition by Michel Bruneau Literature Fiction eBooks
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“My casket shall be filled to the rim with 2005 Saint-Émilion.” So read the first line of the specific instructions for Keene’s funeral—a funeral that nobody would attend, since he had no friends or family. This had to be a mistake. Carmina’s ex-husband had never been one inclined towards such exuberance—“he was a boring engineer for Christ’s sake.” Besides, she didn’t want to have anything to do with this sordid story—they hadn’t spoken to each other for more than a decade. A story that would have her treasure hunt for junk, with a suicidal, pyromaniac kid in tow, while being courted by the shyest lawyer on earth. Keene didn’t have friends, but he sure had quirky acquaintances; each of the eight Carmina has to visit holds a piece of the puzzle.
With its palette of quirky characters, imaginative developments, and unusual perspective on life and death, "The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer" is an inspirational journey that captivates, entertains, and provides food for thought to those of us who happen to know someone who might die someday (rare as it may be).
The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer edition by Michel Bruneau Literature Fiction eBooks
I had been recommended this book by a friend of mine who was all praises for Michel Bruneau. I would like to admit that I had never read any of Bruneau's works and I was looking forward to reading The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer. Moreover what caught my attention was the title of the novel. Another story on the lines of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman? A story on how death frees all from the bondage of life? Needless to say, I was intrigued. And by the time I finished reading the novel, I realized this book is so much more.The author has given a rather captivating beginning to the story. Keene Mason, the engineer whom the title of the book refers to, is already dead and he has left a very peculiar request as his last wish. "My casket shall be filled to the rim with 2005 Saint-Emilion," says the document, which an irritated funeral director reads out to Mason's rather confused ex-wife. The outlandish request, which also describes the method of filling the casket with the wine, leaves even Mason's ex-wife Carmina wondering about what she had missed that led to the transformation of the 'boring engineer' she knew to a seemingly insane person during her absence in his life for more than a decade. The narrator mentions at one point, "True eccentrics would have left to others the aggravation of dealing with how to execute their Daliesque last wishes. But engineering and eccentricity aren't even close to being synonyms." If not eccentric, as evident from the final wish, what was the `boring engineer'?
The story grasped my attention from the first pages. What a strange character! I needed to know how he changed from being "boring" to weird. So, I follow the journey of Mason's ex-wife who tries to unravel the mystery behind his transformation; unravelling facts about him, each more absurd than the previous. Carmina meets his acquaintances, all of whom are unique and quirky. The author has portrayed brilliant characterization and created a canvas of excellent plot and equally marvellous characters.
The story is a journey that is inspirational and captivating with various interesting perspectives on the ideas of life and death. I would recommend The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer to everybody who wants to read something entertaining and worthwhile.
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The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer edition by Michel Bruneau Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Keene Mason is a man who has devoted his life almost exclusively to his career as an engineer. A fan of careful planning, mathematical restrictions, and with little interest in friendships or love affairs, Keene would appear boring to most people. Naturally it comes as a surprise that upon his death his funeral arrangements should involve items as eccentric as a casket filled with wine and lengthy letters concerning his views on numerology. Keene's ex-wife Carmina is left to take charge of the mess he has requested in what leads to a treasure hunt of sorts that, thanks to Keene's careful planning, he is able to control from beyond the grave.
For her part, Carmina is a woman whose life is built around her own career. Working for an organization that deals with difficult children she spends her working life doing her best to get the most undesirable of kids into foster care. Initially reluctant to play her ex-husband's games, she is eventually drawn into the affair thanks in part to a suicidal twelve year old with a love of setting fires and a bumbling attorney who is too shy to express his true feelings. As this oddball team sets about the task of making sense of Keene's last wishes, they build a portrait of a man that few knew in any complete way.
Zany with occasional moments of seriousness, the international romp set up by a dying engineer has its shares of ups and downs. The author's dense prose style allows for a good deal of extended metaphors and over description. Though frequently comical, such a style can prove tedious. "The open door revealed a disheveled, bearded man in sandals, khaki shorts, and an over-sized t-shirt covered with psychedelic patters; he looked like a fallen guru without charisma and followers, in so far as spiritual gurus could go bankrupt and survive collecting unemployment insurance benefits."
The author's success at humor will likely depend on the reader's tolerance of a twelve year-old boy who likes to set fires and whether or not it is funny to design a new religion around watching football.
While the people of Keene's past that Carmina encounters do not always prove incredibly interesting, Carmina herself emerges as a likeable character amongst all the kookiness. As silly as it is to miss someone who has both engineered the idea of filling their coffin with wine and expressed lengthy complaints about the anonymity of engineers in modern society, it is more or less the kind of irrationality that makes love memorable.
Though the story concludes with a somewhat bizarre climax, seeing a relatable protagonist such as Carmina navigate through a stream of kookiness makes the book worthwhile.
Reviewed by Collin Marchiando for IndieReader
The title may be misleading - the engineer in question is anything but boring. Instead he is well-read, thoughtful, poetic, eccentric, and dead. We hear his voices through the complex set of instructions he's left his ex-wife, who needs to comply in order to get the money he's left behind to save her floundering organization that helps high-demand children find foster homes. The quest spans the globe, unfolding one section at a time, based around numerological ruminations and philosophies of number (interesting in itself). The plot is held together by banter, the addition of romantic interests and colorful characters, and wit, but the true gems of the book are found in the reflections of the engineer upon his own imminent death. My only complaint is that it is sometimes too witty characters make intelligent connections or understand far more than they should be able to. I liked reading the book because it made me feel clever about myself for getting it (a little like "Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance"?), but that's not to say this is a dry or philosophical book. There is a lot going on and plenty for the average reader to enjoy.
I had been recommended this book by a friend of mine who was all praises for Michel Bruneau. I would like to admit that I had never read any of Bruneau's works and I was looking forward to reading The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer. Moreover what caught my attention was the title of the novel. Another story on the lines of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman? A story on how death frees all from the bondage of life? Needless to say, I was intrigued. And by the time I finished reading the novel, I realized this book is so much more.
The author has given a rather captivating beginning to the story. Keene Mason, the engineer whom the title of the book refers to, is already dead and he has left a very peculiar request as his last wish. "My casket shall be filled to the rim with 2005 Saint-Emilion," says the document, which an irritated funeral director reads out to Mason's rather confused ex-wife. The outlandish request, which also describes the method of filling the casket with the wine, leaves even Mason's ex-wife Carmina wondering about what she had missed that led to the transformation of the 'boring engineer' she knew to a seemingly insane person during her absence in his life for more than a decade. The narrator mentions at one point, "True eccentrics would have left to others the aggravation of dealing with how to execute their Daliesque last wishes. But engineering and eccentricity aren't even close to being synonyms." If not eccentric, as evident from the final wish, what was the `boring engineer'?
The story grasped my attention from the first pages. What a strange character! I needed to know how he changed from being "boring" to weird. So, I follow the journey of Mason's ex-wife who tries to unravel the mystery behind his transformation; unravelling facts about him, each more absurd than the previous. Carmina meets his acquaintances, all of whom are unique and quirky. The author has portrayed brilliant characterization and created a canvas of excellent plot and equally marvellous characters.
The story is a journey that is inspirational and captivating with various interesting perspectives on the ideas of life and death. I would recommend The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer to everybody who wants to read something entertaining and worthwhile.
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