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Product Description RESISTANCE IS FUTULE! by David BoyneEssays on When the Shift Hits the FanThis is the fourth book in the Kindle series, I COULD BE WRONG, BUT... COLLECTED ESSAYS OF DAVID BOYNE. Other Kindle books in the series include, HAPPY ACCIDENTS, TRAVELS IN MY THREE POUND UNIVERSE, and X MARKS THE SPOT. Book DescriptionQuietly hilarious and deceptively meaningful essays of ordinary events. The fast-moving, sardonic dialogue of HOW WOULD BUDDHA DRIVE? explores the mystery, How can a guy meditate blissfully, then drive like a mad man? In the memoir piece, IF I HAD A HAMMER, we ride along with an intense, erratic college student as he pilots a motorcycle through a snowstorm in Maine, on his way to make a life-changing purchase. And before we know it, we have passed with him through Manhattan's Alphabet City and East Village, San Francisco's Nob Hill, and come to a stop a dozen years later somewhere on a suburban porch in Portland, Oregon. In the essay, OWNING UP, we buy a house. Or do we! ? By the end of a fast montage of reflections on the false-reality of owning stuff we somehow wind up inside the movie, Midnight Cowboy, where we learn what we each truly do own. In the story, BREAKFAST WITH ANNIE, sharing a meal with a foul-mouthed, cantankerous 80-year-old neighbor leads us into bearing witness to the long and lonely decline of an anonymous life. In the set piece, KILROY WAS HERE, we start off with a not-too-bright kid growing up in Connecticut but certain he's being raised by a cult of koan-dispensing Zen masters. Yet, by the end of the journey, we wonder if that not-too-bright kid may have had it right, after all. Then it's off to nibbling stale cheese and guzzling cheap read wine at a literary event, in the essay, IN MY OPINION, which somehow manages to tie up in a neat little bundle, being a writer, receiving angry emails, drinking organic coffee, and learning how to use an AK-47 assault rifle.Talk about mood swings! Yet. In these and the other ! essays of this collection, there is something going on and com! ing acro ss. A theme, or a running joke, or an message encrypted in the white space around the words. There is an unmistakable undercurrent to these biploar sardonic-serious, sad-hilarious, slapstick-heartache essays. Even if it is never put directly into words. But what is it? Whoa! Hold on thar, Baba Looey! What's the title of this here book again?Praise for I COULD BE WRONG, BUT... COLLECTED ESSAYS OF DAVID BOYNE on Kindle"Like those other two Davids, Dave Barry and David Sedaris, David Boyne analyzes life's minor truths and comes up with the uncomfortable (some might say, absurd) questions that may not topple governments, but do make life richer."--Ken Callaway, Screenwriter/Composer "These essays brim with profound insight. They are tales of ordinary life, extraordinarily observed. And they're funny. So funny you hardly know he's making you think 'til you catch yourself doing it."--Patty Kadel, Cartoonist (PattyKadel.com)"These stories take you on a sardonic ride as cu! rvy as it is bodacious. Sardonic, curvy, bodacious. Yeah, that's what I said." --Julie Ann Weinstein, author of Flashes From the Other World (JulieWeinstein.com)"Beautifully crafted, poignant, and humorous. Essays by David Boyne capture the magic in daily life, if we stop and pay attention. He reminds us that happiness, indeed, is not an accident."-- Paula Margulies, author of Coyote Heart (PaulaMargulies.com) "These essays are poignant, funny and intellectually charged." -- Traci Foust, author of Nowhere Near Normal, A Memoir of OCDProduct Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #376493 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-10-23
- Released on: 2011-10-23
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
