The Cave

This is very different plot for a story.
You have a good imagination for this.
I don't think I've ever read something like this. It is different writing style and story plot.
Nice job with the pitch.
Good work!

Shelby Z./Driving Winds

P.S. Please take a look at my pirate adventure Driving Winds.

The Cave.
I have to say this is a very unique book. Not just in the storyline but in the way its written too.
I love the way it begins with the amusing arguement. The way they are called the the first, the second etc
The descriptions of the girls on the plane were brilliant. I like the humorous bit about Brad Pitt.
Its such an adventuress and a surprising story, and the reader's not quite sure what's going to pop up next.
Its excellently written and a book to remember.
Highly starred Junetee(Four Corners)

A legend, a cave, a tantalising secret. One man, three witches and a hell of a lot of sex, magic and… steak.
Rejuvenation? Eternal youth? Immortality? Maste went in search of the ultimate secret and – vanished. Now three tantalisingly beautiful Polish witches are trying to find him.
Their epic adventure leads them (by plane, boat and broomstick) across four continents, via time and space, through dreams and reality, over fire and under water.
They meet a rich cast of seekers, gurus and guides – some real, some unreal , some bearing an uncanny resemblance to characters from popular media. By the time they finally reach the summit of their quest, high in the remote Himalayas, all three have changed their bodies and minds – into… other things entirely. But have they discovered the ultimate Truth?
Magic and science. Enlightenment and egocentrism. Love and sex. Whiskey and hash. Firewalking and shapeshifting. Short leather skirts and very long legs. Welcome to The Cave.
“The Cave is a total delight, a metaphysical masterpiece, and Marek Stefanowicz is an extraordinary writer. As the world latches onto the need for a spirituality grounded in everyday unreality, I strongly suspect his books will become cult classics.” Jane Alexander, author of Spirit of the Home

I’ve been waiting impatiently for The Cave to be translated into English for some considerable time. It’s a novel about the hunt for eternal youth and immortality that also includes lashings of humour and sex. So, really, what’s not to like?
Maste has vanished. His wife Margarita (yes, Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita inevitably comes to mind) begs her friend Natasha to help. Natasha is a psychologist and a fortune-teller but, most important of all, she’s a witch. Her sisters, Olga and Irene, also highly intelligent (and equally beautiful) witches, agree to join Natasha on a wildcap quest across the world (each part of the book is set on a different continent) to discovert what happened to the missing ‘madman’.
It’s an unusual book, quite different from Marek’s previous titles, the semi-autobiographical Symphonic Bridges and the elliptical Pro-vocation, written in ‘real time’ on the website Authonomy. The Cave is a Rabelaisian, almost Milesian, romp, using humour to offset the deep spiritual and philosophical deliberations of the novel. Its language veers from the pedantically anal to the rhetorically extravagant (or, as it has been described, ‘grotesquely flamboyant’), playful, humorous and sometimes joyfully crude - as wild as a broomstick ride across the skyline of Manhattan (in lieu of Moscow) by night. It enjoys the same love of language as Symphonic Bridges but is, I suspect, more accessible with its strong characterisation and surprising shifts in location and pace.
What’s it about? Really? Well, everyone sees something different in a book, of course, but to my mind it’s about life, about consciousness, about the stormy search for Self. Each sister undergoes a profound personal journey in the course of the book, changing into…something else? Olga takes the slow ‘baby steps’ route to enlightenment, becoming the Mistress of Breath while Natasha metamorphoses into the miraculous Mistress of Light. But perhaps the most appealing character is the bawdy, hard-living, tough-talking, no-nonsense Irene. She scoffs at her sisters’ increasing spirituality and sticks firmly to her regime of whiskey-swigging, fag-smoking, steak-eating and casual sex (with the strict proviso that one night is always enough). She’s an every(wo)man, a modern-day pilgrim navigating the world in black leather and high heels. A head-turning heartbreaker, she is undoubtedly a Mistress of Sex who may eventually become the Mistress of Love.
Ah, love. Love. It’s the bottom line, of course. And I love that The Cave makes us ask questions. Who are we? What are our limits? Do we actually have limits? What is conscious living? How far can science or gurus provide us with answers? What is the purpose of life? What is the one question? Is Love the answer? The reason?
Then, just when your head starts spinning (or turning into a pumpkin) there’s another shift and you’re eavesdropping on Friends in New York or sharing a group hug with the cast of Lost, diving into bed with an animagus or getting high with a snorkel in the bath.
Which (witch?) is just as it should be. For I don’t believe spirituality needs to be po-faced and dour, worthy and hairshirtish. Far from it. The Cave is a total delight, a metaphysical masterpiece. There’s even a cat – called Behemoth of course.
Marek is an extraordinary writer and, as the world latches onto the need for a spirituality grounded in everyday unreality, I strongly suspect his books will become cult classics. :)

This is like Macbeth meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy after Michael Crichton mixed their pages together and rolled around naked on them.
Interesting. A little weird. You lose me with your theory a little...not because of your writing, though. I'm okay with very basic physics. Very basic.
I'd like more descriptive writing in the Macbeth portion of this, by which I mean the three sisters having their orgasmic fire. I'm assuming it's the fire that's orgasmic. Their conversation is a little hard to get to the bottom of. Not that it doesn't read easily: It does. But obscurity and cliffhanger are two different things. I want to be intrigued; I was just lost. And the pilot? Was he Japanese?
Still, I have the urge to keep reading. Your writing style is pretty unique and I can't even begin to guess where you are taking this. Which is, I suppose, intriguing by definition.

THE CAVE
This is an interesting story. I like the argument among the characters in the opening scene as to what “possibly” meant. Sets an amusing tone to the story. I had a little trouble with your vocabulary as it’s a lot more extensive than mine, but at base, that didn’t matter. The combination of the overly learned professors and your amusing observations make a good contrast; kept me reading. A small thing, but I wonder why you use a single ‘ for conversation instead of “, but okay, again. Didn’t really make a difference. I’ve highly rated this and added it to my shelf. Wanttobeawriter: Who Killed the President?

Just read the first couple of chapters.
I found the very opening a little hard to follow with names like First, Second etc. Even so, I soon got into it when the story began as proper.
What I have read so far has been good and original and it will be interesting to see how it all builds. The language and style of your writing is very good (in my opinion anyway).
Good luck with it.
Cheers,
Mike.
(Rudolf Goes Bananas)

Hi Justin

Will definitively have a nose through this as I have a few spaces on my book shelf and WL. Would you be so kind as to have a quick look at my book - The List. Feel free to leave a comment.
ta very much.

David J Baron