Review: Examining Existentialism
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2012
"The Followers" begs one to ask two questions:  Is it so bad to want to immerse oneself in fantasy?  What, if anything, is real?Evan Bollinger carries the reader along on a journey with an attuned child, and into his mind's farthest reaches.  He transports the reader into a world that only he, the child, sees.  It's a monotonous and mundane world that the child can't escape, but not from a lack of trying.  Bollinger relates every nuance of this world so effortlessly and almost flawlessly.  It's a somewhat warped world, indeed.  It's a world that so many of us might know.  It's a real world, only the observant child sees some very unreal things in it.Bollinger's use of simile is, in my opinion, superb, as he describes to the reader every nuance of the perceptive child's experiences throughout a day in his life.I hesitate to explain what happens in the story any further.  I fear ruining its ending.Inside all fiction lies at least one grain of truth.  It's true to me that "The Followers" is well worth reading.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Perhaps others will, too.