Non-fiction book

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by drcy

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]

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]

Originally Posted by drcy

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]

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]

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]

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