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Morphametosis (ebook) : Have you ever finished something, only to begin it all over again? Have you ever stared death in the face, only to realize it was actually life? Follow our protean Hero's epic, but no less comical, Adventure of being human to the ends of the earth in Book VI of the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series in whose conclusion nothing is really concluded--which is precisely the point.Read MORPHAMETOSIS in its entirety athttp://www.scribd.com/doc/10325757/Morphametosis-Book-VI-of-the-Beginners-Luke-Series

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The Accidental Gringo (ebook) : Have you ever wanted to become someone else? Have you ever actually tried it? Follow Luke Soloman, “the ultimate iconoclast” (Apex Reviews), on the Experience Trail in this suspense- and laughter-filled interlude that starts in Paris and ends in Rio as he transforms yet again--this time into perhaps the unlikeliest character of all: the author. “A modern-day ALICE IN WONDERLAND, where anything can come alive when you start with a blank page … [Luckman] shows the reader that as individuals, we, too, have choices and potentials. There are no boundaries or rules to limit us.” —Reader ViewsRead The Accidental Gringo in its entirety athttp://www.scribd.com/doc/9836503/The-Accidental-Gringo-Book-V-of-the-Beginners-Luke-Series

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Crow Rising on Blogtalkradio : Welcome to Crow Rising Transformational Media on blogtalkradio, home to the internationally acclaimed and bestselling writings of Sol Luckman--author of CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD, editor of the popular free ezine DNA MONTHLY, and cofounder of the Phoenix Center for Regenetics. NEXUS NEW TIMES called CONSCIOUS HEALING, which was recently translated into its third language, a “paradigm-reworking book” that introduces a “revolutionary healing science that’s expanding the boundaries of being.” In addition, Sol is author of the groundbreaking BEGINNER'S LUKE Series of seriocomic novels that hilariously explore the role of consciousness and imagination in creating reality. Luke’s signature obsessions with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious, and life-changing, point: CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination—for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world.

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Portraits (paperback) : A Recent Review of PORTRAITS:First off, what the heck is PORTRAITS OF AN IMAGINARY YOUNG MAN? Okay, it's a book–let's start simple. It's a story (still simple). But it's also a self-referential autobiography of a fictional character written by an imaginary author. Now we're getting closer … Not being used to writing reviews, I will concern myself not with the literary content of the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series, of which PORTRAITS is Book III of VI, but the subjective experience of reading it.Having read postmodernist (God, I hate these pigeonholes) materials from Hunter S. Thompson, Chuck Palahniuk and more, I thought my mind would be quite prepared to take on this Series. Before starting, I was also quite convinced that I was sane. However …Every chapter in the Series takes a less-trodden road than its parent chapter, and trust me, Chapter 1 of Book I is already WAY out there. The reader is taken on a fantasy magical mystery tour through the damaged (?) mind of a person who does not exist. Worst of all, it all makes sense, and on a very personal level. Hence I believed I was sane. The Series proves otherwise.Fueled by the reader's cognitive dissonance, the fictitious author has created a tome which is in essence the cure to the disease it carries and transmits to the reader. The only way to process the information in any given chapter is to move on to the next, which DOES in fact heal the damage done–yet creates its own new damage to the reader's internal equilibrium which again is cured by the next chapter … ad infinitum (or at least to the end of the Series).In short, the sweet, sweet madness of the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series proves that books are indeed better than needles–but only just!LoKi HeimdallLisbon, PortugalLimited-time Offer: Download Books I-III of the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series absolutely FREE at http://www.beginnersluke.com/page7.html …

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The Toy Buddha (paperback) : WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE BUDDHA SUDDENLY REAPPEARED? WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF HE SUDDENLY DIDN'T?The Adventure of an imaginary lifetime began with BEGINNER'S LUKE, an instant "underground classic" that has met with rave reviews worldwide. Now Luke is back and better than ever in this stand-alone, mock-epic, enlightening spoof of all things held sacred in American culture.COMPLETELY UNBELIEVABLE PRAISE "Let me shoot you straight: Luke Soloman is one ecstatic dumbsaint of the brain. Can you dig it?" —Jack Kerouac "The author may not have much sense of plot, but he's got some serious huevos." —Julio Cortazar WARNING: May cause vertigo, euphoria, lunatic laughter. May cause you to get angry, see things in a whole new way, ask questions, quit your job, slug your boss, cheat on your spouse, screw the IRS, expose the truth behind 9/11 because we all know they did it. May fundamentally alter you so the old rules no longer apply, so it's okay if clothes become optional, okay to make love not war, okay to set fire to your country club, dig up your neighborhood golf course, plant an organic garden and build your new community one puff at a time ...Visit http://www.beginnersluke.com/page7.html to download your FREE copy of THE TOY BUDDHA today!

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The Toy Buddha (ebook) : WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE BUDDHA SUDDENLY REAPPEARED? WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF HE SUDDENLY DIDN'T?The Adventure of an imaginary lifetime began with BEGINNER'S LUKE, an instant "underground classic" that has met with rave reviews worldwide. Now Luke is back and better than ever in this stand-alone, mock-epic, enlightening spoof of all things held sacred in American culture.COMPLETELY UNBELIEVABLE PRAISE "Let me shoot you straight: Luke Soloman is one ecstatic dumbsaint of the brain. Can you dig it?" —Jack Kerouac "The author may not have much sense of plot, but he's got some serious huevos." —Julio Cortazar WARNING: May cause vertigo, euphoria, lunatic laughter. May cause you to get angry, see things in a whole new way, ask questions, quit your job, slug your boss, cheat on your spouse, screw the IRS, expose the truth behind 9/11 because we all know they did it. May fundamentally alter you so the old rules no longer apply, so it's okay if clothes become optional, okay to make love not war, okay to set fire to your country club, dig up your neighborhood golf course, plant an organic garden and build your new community one puff at a time ...Visit http://www.beginnersluke.com/page7.html to download THE TOY BUDDHA today!THE TOY BUDDHA: The Road from Experience to ... Wisdom?Alyce Mooreland, Los Angeles, CaliforniaI told myself I wasn't going to write a second review of the Beginner's Luke Series, by my old buddy Sol Luckman, but here I am again after being thoroughly taken by Book II, The Toy Buddha.Part of what I am is just plain nostalgic for my undergrad days in Chapel Hill, which Luckman calls in mock-homage to Thomas Wolfe Pulpit Hill. I, too, remember when "Pulpit Hill" was just a sleepy little university town, when there was always a free parking space and traffic jams were things cities had--the pre-Ben Fold's Five days when the Pressure Boys and Snatches of Pink ruled weekend nights at Cat's Cradle …But I digress. The Toy Buddha is honestly quite beyond any other novel I've ever read, though it has certain affinities to the sustained high-wire performances of novels like Tom Robbins' Another Roadside Attraction and Robert Coovers’ The Public Burning. Luke and Billy's hallucinatory and madcap pursuit of the peripatetic Buddha, who suddenly and briefly reappears in 1987 in Pulpit Hill, as central as it is as a plot device, becomes virtually a sideshow compared to Luke's by turns hilarious and merciless introspection in this imaginary novel-memoir that at times reads like a crazed voyeur's wet dream.Not that Luke is going crazy, though he could, and perhaps should, be--with a faux friend like Billy inviting a crackup to make F. Scott Fitzgerald weep in the wake of one betrayal after another. Admittedly, the jury remains out as to what Billy, a.k.a. William Morocco, ultimately represents. Is he a friend or a fiend? a visionary or a lunatic? Perhaps the most we can say is that he seems meant to mirror an older and more jaded version of Luke back to himself as a “cautionary tale” of the imagination gone sour.In a word, The Toy Buddha serves up a trenchant critique of the alarming tendency most people have to look outside themselves for meaning, be it spiritual or political--whether they're giving away their power to a religion, a guru, an elected official, a savior, or the Buddha himself now back on the loose in these unprecedented pages."The Road of Experience leads to the Palace of Wisdom," wrote Blake. Luke certainly finds himself disabused through his "experience" with Billy and the Buddha. The question is will this ultimately produce "wisdom"? I'm willing to bet it will, eventually, at least a little, and I can hardly wait to sink my teeth into Book III, Portraits of an Imaginary Young Man.Download THE TOY BUDDHA today!

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Beginner's Luke (ebook) : Introducing the paperback edition of the contemporary "underground classic" Beginner's Luke. Since its ebook release last June, this eminently readable yet highly experimental novel has already attracted a sizable following in cyberspace, drawing favorable comparisons to A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and On the Road. The novel's eponymous protagonist is more than merely self-conscious. Luke is sui generis, literally believing himself into being. Beginner's Luke is the first novel in a series of six madcap adventures that, collectively, make up the imaginary life of this lovably irreverent modern-day Walter Mitty. "This is the sort of book that could easily have self-destructed in a lesser author's hands," writes one reviewer, "but Luckman makes it sing. You'll like Luke often; you'll want to wring his neck on occasion. But what you won't do is forget him." Read more reviews. A respected New York publisher, whose authors feature a National Book Award finalist in addition to dozens of prestigious award winners, offered the author a contract (subsequently declined in favor of an experiment in self-publishing) for the Beginner's Luke Series, which made it out of a yearly "slush pile" of nearly 8,000 manuscripts.While titillating in the rambunctious tradition of Henry Miller, this extraordinary literary debut equally impresses as a work of unsurpassed visionary art. Luke's signature obsessions with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious, and life-changing, point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination--for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world.Currently, the author is still giving away the ebook version of Beginner's Luke. To take advantage of this completely FREE offer, or to order the paperback, click here. Whatever you do, be sure to give yourself the gift of Luke!

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