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drcy 06-03-2014 09:42 PM

Non-fiction book
 
My short non-fiction book Return Trip was named a Finalist for the 2014 Eric Hoffer Award. It has nothing to do with sports cards or memorabilia.

I Only Smoke 4 the Cards 06-04-2014 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by drcy (Post 1283816)
My short non-fiction book Return Trip was named a Finalist for the 2014 Eric Hoffer Award. It has nothing to do with sports cards or memorabilia.

Congrats, David. I read the Amazon page and would like to know more about the book. Do you have a more detailed description?

drcy 06-04-2014 02:50 PM

It has academic material but is not an academic book in the traditional sense. It's a book of important philosophical and cognitive science ideas written in a highly personal and idiosyncratic (and often comic) style. If you require a movie and novel to be linear and formulaic, it's not for you. Due to the off beat rhetorical style and content, readers either call it a piercing work of genius or say "What the Hell was that?"

The book's only 117 pages. If I summarized it further, the summary would be longer than the book.

Runscott 06-04-2014 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by drcy (Post 1284004)
It has academic material but is not an academic book in the traditional sense. It's a book of important philosophical and cognitive science ideas written in a highly personal and idiosyncratic (and often comic) style. If you require a movie and novel to be linear and formulaic, it's not for you. Due to the off beat rhetorical style and content, readers either call it a piercing work of genius or say "What the Hell was that?"

The book's only 117 pages. If I summarized it further, the summary would be longer than the book.

Several reviews said they thought it could have been done in only 116 pages.

drcy 06-04-2014 06:51 PM

People question my sanity, but never my intelligence.

Only a true genius can pull off explaining aleatoricism in art and making a joke about his dog peeing in a freezer on the same page.

steve B 06-04-2014 08:59 PM

Had to look that one up. Not a common thing for me. (And maybe more a statement about my reading habits than my vocabulary)

Looks like an interesting book.

Steve B

Jlighter 06-14-2014 12:51 PM

Sounds interesting, and short, enough. I'll check it out.


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