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Who would you be if you could be anyone? go anywhere? do anything? Well, you can! Luke Soloman will show you how.

Luke is more than merely self-conscious. He 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.

While titillating in the rambunctious 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.

“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 Views

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CrowRising 6 days ago

Below, I've included some of the glowing feedback BEGINNER'S LUKE has received from fellow writers over on the online writing community Authonomy. A number of these writers are already established--which makes their praise all the more valuable.

*** Reviews by Fellow Writers ***

I felt as if I was way back when and reading Tom Robbins for the first time!

Obviously, from the feedback below, nobody knows how to critique this, because they can't. It doesn't follow any of the rules, so there's nothing to compare it to.

Greetings … I salute the master. You've just made my day. I ... have learned by reading this book I know nothing about writing.

Your name is apropos to your fantastic use of words. Sol Luckman, the lucky man with the magic pen. You captured me and had me under your spell for all thirty-five hundred words. I came here to quickly scan through your book and fell right into your trap. All I can say is you are a genius in the making, a master story teller and a whole hell of a lot of fun. This kind of writing is going to make you rich and famous.

From your first paragraph, you've got me. This book is fabulous, it's been polished and fine-tuned, reads like a dream. Not only is it incredibly humorous, it's intelligent … I could keep writing on the pleasure of this book all day. Let me pause to shelve it now, and assure you this work is grand.

Once in a while I'm blown away by some book I've sampled here: this is one of them. Criticism would be superfluous--you know you've written something good. You've already had some success with it and a good following. You also have the confidence to say that it is part of a series. Add me to the list of its fans/supporters.

This was fabulous. So different from anything I read, but it kept me enthralled the whole time.

This is fall over funny. Your wit, tongue in cheek-isms, and downright pulling the mickey is so darn refreshing and delightful!! And you do it all with such aplomb, brazenly flaunting a fabulous vocabulary, writing a captivating story, but it's soooo delicious! This is the kind of book that makes me suck my fingers and announce, scrumptious!, I'll have a second helping!

A very polished, original take on the comic coming-of-age story.

I suppose the references to Kerouac and Miller were what attracted me in the first place--and indeed the book started very much in Kerouac's style. I would have been content with that, but you then moved on into a totally new dimension. Exhilarating stuff.

This book needs to be up there in the charts. Period.

Obviously you’ve got real talent. It’s a great story, a fabulist sort of yarn told in a great voice.

Miller? Kerouac? No, Luckman. You have a very personal style and I feel comparing you to those two authors takes away from the BRAVO I want to give you. Very special, very funny, weird, crazy, delicious.

CrowRising 5 months ago

All six Books of this Series are now available on Scribd: BEGINNER'S LUKE, THE TOY BUDDHA, PORTRAITS OF AN IMAGINARY YOUNG MAN, LUKE IN EXILE, THE ACCIDENTAL GRINGO, and MORPHAMETOSIS. Enjoy the Adventure of an imaginary lifetime!

CrowRising 10 months ago

I was recently surprised to learn that a quote from this my first novel was included in the “Sunbeams” section of the popular THE SUN magazine devoted to arts and culture–under a quote by a literary hero of mine, Jack Kerouac, no less!