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33 kirjaa tekijältä Doug Rucker
It was long my contention that if anyone should take the time to write about 62,000 consecutive words (about the size of an average book) off the top of his/her head, a reader could learn a great deal about the writer and the writer could learn even more about him/her self. When I got into it, I discovered consecutive words turned into arbitrary essays, some humorous, some autobiographical, some philosophic. Since that's the way it came out I decided to leave it. The writing may not always be terrific but for me the essays are worth saving.
After making eight, one hundred-page comedy books with cartoons and humorous essays and giving them to friends, and doing enough poetry to fill a four-hundred page book, I finally had the desire remember the past and think maybe I could write it. I'd tell myself the EARLY STORIES of my life. At the age of sixty-five and prompted by my mother's gift of three tattered family photo albums, I was reminded of the past and suddenly wanted to remember everything of that far distant time. I started with my birth. It should organize easily. The outline would be chronological. In remembering everything, perhaps I indulged myself too much, but you be the judge. When I finished the book after writing about graduating from the University of Illinois, I felt, perhaps my life story could not be told in a mere three or four hundred pages. It looked very much like there would at least be a LATER STORIES.
If you are comfortable with off-the-wall dream-poems, scribbly diagrams suggesting meanings, several Maps to the Right Brain, and explorations into the depths of a man's soul, this book is for you. Apparently the author thought organization and planning expendable. It seems whatever drifted into the author's head was suitable for posterity. Who else would mix dream poetry, art, cartoons, weird essays, scribbly diagrams, and Maps to the Right Brain in one book? This "piece of art" is held together by lack of continuity. Read the neurotic efforts of a temporarily confused author, Doug Rucker, who, in addition, has come up with the puzzling title, CRANDALICUS? Good reading
Father Kokomo is a biblical character that thinks he knows everything. It's strange, but sometimes you have to admit he actually might. (Effective love is unconditional) His friends include Mr. and Mrs. Parsimonious, their 13-year old daughter, Globula, her sister, Suzie and boyfriend, Chester, Globula's wise-cracking friends, dogs, cats, birds and angel, Gloria, who loves Father Kokomo no matter what. All are in the process of becoming all they were meant to be. Read it only in The Philosophic Adventures of Father Kokomo.
What's in this book?Detective Bunny leaps into action after the crook who stole the North Avenue Bridge. Someone doesn't get it in the adventures of Abraham, and it may be you. Enter eternity's door with Tom and Bernie in Shortcut to Nowhere. Just another bank hiest has a global twist in The Stick-up. Everyday Stuff with Jorge and Merle is mildly amusing, as is the non-verbal, Conversation between Hector and Globula. Ruth Guilless and Roy Crandal continue to interview to interview weirdow for Station KRUD and filling in the spaces are Acquired Taste Cartoons having no specific theme.What's in this book? Episodes only friends could love.
About this book...Less thancomprehensive, perhaps, but discusses: When to corbell? Living with an eccentric bldg. Beam notching. Just a fad? The positive side of a negative moment. Psychology of the abnormal load. Passive-aggressive earth prewwure. When to risk horizontal Shear. This and more in Over-Simplified Engineering.
Bonk and what's next is a brilliantly conceived collection of illustrated stories, inventions, observations and miscellany by Roy Crandal (a pen-name for the author Doug Rucker), last years winner of the Pulitzer Surprise. Read between the lines and the author's mental state readily emerges, and, GOOD NEWS, it's not catching Read this book and you'll say as other have, "Hey Cowabunga, dude "
It is my belief we create memories to suit our survival and comfort needs at the time of remembering. That we rarely recall the truth on what took place, but based on those events, we rearrange, reorganize, embellish and change our recollections in the way we need or want them to be. These new remembrances and images then become the reality forming the basis of our new actions. What follows is my truth. I can readily accept the idea that it wasn't the same truth to another. Forgive me if I have left anything out or have not seen or expressed what might be another truth. Doug Rucker
TALES OF THE WORTHWHILE DOGRUCKER'S FOREWORD: Can you imagine how tough it is for a dog to learn to write a book? I know I worked with him a whole year to teach him how to hold a pen in his paw, to roll his eyes to the ceiling in thought and chew on the eraser, to keep his paws and tail off the paper and so forth. If it hadn't been for me I don't think old Worthwhilecoulda' pulled It off. And how do you like that for a name anyway, WORTHWHILE Give me a break. WORTHWHILE'S RESPONSE: Rucker didn't help me at all I practically did the whole thing myself. Maybe he helped me on the paste-up, but for that I've got to give him credit in my book? I'm the one who has my own doghouse WITHa library. In the bottom drawer of my file cabinet I keep my notes and observations on silly activities of humans and it is these contents I wish to share with you in TALES OF THE WORTHWHILE DOG.
The 3 in 1 Book(1) - BOOK OF THOUGHTS - You will see the absurd complications of a client & psychiatrist, difficulties of a certain customer, the needless adventure of the scooter and squirrel, written tales of random humanity and simple hassles of chopping down a tree.(2) - COMPLETE BOOK OF FACKS - You will learn everything that's known in the world including Freedom is Ignorance. How to Avoid Reality, mathematics, music and facks like how a cold-water shower makes you smaller.(3) - THE LEFT OVER BOOK - You will thrill to Private Eyes, with Soxon Dunderwear, Lacy Lingerie and wonder dog Barf. You will be awestruck at Dictionary Poem Number One and another episode of Detective Bunny and his nerves of steel. Quiver and tremble to the audacity of Lorna Langleberry in Murder She Write, and be in love with The 3 in 1 Book