What is Beginner’s Luke? Quite simply, like nothing you’ve ever experienced before!

Characterized by Reader Views as a “modern-day Alice in Wonderland” and by Apex Reviews as a “mind-bending journey through the mind of the ultimate iconoclast,” Beginner’s Luke is also, as literature professor Niama Williams has written, a “spiritual journey that you do not want to put down.”

These short cinematic segments from the Adventure of an imaginary lifetime are like eating a birthday cake laced with acid. You think it’s just cake—but then your mind is altered!

“It all began with a mysterious fire in my belly, a burning desire to go everywhere, meet everyone, see and do everything. It began with a life-or-death decision to remove the Needle of False Security from my arm, turn away from the Medusa of Routine, part the Veil of Bogus Guarantees and pass on into that vital place where, regardless of the question, all you have to say is yes.” —Luke Soloman
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TOTALLY INCREDIBLE PRAISE

“Three thumbs up!” —Eugene Ionesco

“A quarter memoir, a quarter ars poetica, a quarter social satire, a quarter self-parody, a quarter mind-expanding hallucinogen, a quarter pornography, Beginner’s Luke is more than the sum of its parts—and much more than the reader has bargained for. Fasten your seatbelt, brave soul!” —Hunter S. Thompson

“A tour de farce!” —Oscar Wilde

“Marvelously irreverent and irrelevant.” —Allen Ginsberg

Introducing BEGINNER’S LUKE: Manifesto for a New Fiction
Introducing BEGINNER’S LUKE: Acknowledging Acknowledgments
Introducing BEGINNER’S LUKE: Note on the Series
BEGINNER’S LUKE I: New Age City
BEGINNER’S LUKE II: Perver City
BEGINNER’S LUKE III: Herbal Delight
BEGINNER’S LUKE IV: From New Age to Stone Age
BEGINNER’ S LUKE V: The Penthouse Palace
BEGINNER’ S LUKE VI:Blue

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“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.” —Júlio Cortázar

“I should like to know more about this Luke Soloman’s mother.” —Sigmund Freud

“A literary legend in his own mind, engaged in a metaphysics of self of megalomaniacal proportions, Luke Soloman is either a lunatic or a genius. Or both.” —Jorge Luis Borges

THE TOY BUDDHA I: Say Goodbye to Kansas
THE TOY BUDDHA II: Downstairs, the Party Rages
THE TOY BUDDHA III: Spirit of Jefferson Street
THE TOY BUDDHA IV: Solo Man
THE TOY BUDDHA V: Vanessa
THE TOY BUDDHA VI: A Profound Riddle

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Who would you be if you could be anyone? go anywhere? do anything? You can! Luke Soloman will show you how. While titillating in the tradition of Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac and Tom Robbins, this visionary debut equally impresses as a work of literary 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 ourselves and our world. “Beginner's Luke to a conventional novel is what an animated film is to a documentary. It is creative, imaginative, humorous and very distinctive” (Reader Views).

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