This is my web page explaining my thoughts on the brilliant but
sometimes complicated "I am the cheese"
by Robert Cormier (see photo top left). It is a novel that delves into
your most subconscious mind.
It has so many twists and turns it makes a pretzel look simple.
The whole book is written in a very weird and unusual
style. But the way that it is written you will understand why when you
finish the book. It is written the way that Mr. Cormier chose to write
it in that particular style.
It deals with a troubled young man by the name of Adam Farmer.
We are with Adam as he rides his bike from Monument,
Massachusetts towards a hospital in
Vermont where his father is. The bike ride is sometimes an exhausting and
sometimes frightening trip. Then you hit the really odd part about the
book and that is that tapes are being put together between Adam and a person
named Brint. We find out that Adam is being heavily medicated and this
Brint is trying to find out about a Mafia case that Adam's father was involved
in. Through these tapes that Brint puts together with Adam we find the
horror that has existed for Adam and we learn of his eventual fate. His
memories are full of
gaps and that this interviewer, for reasons of his own, is helping him
work his way through those
gaps. Eventually we learn what the interviewer recommends for Adam's future.
Which is not good at
all.
Once you get through the book you find out that the whole scenario
with the bike ride was just a figment of adam's wild imagination. The bike
ride actually takes place outside of this hospital. In this hospital is
everyone and everything that he meets along his ride. I would really recommend
this book to someone who really likes to read odd books about absolutely
nothing.