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October 2009 
Note on the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series
Posted on Jan 28th, 2008
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Luke
Luke
The Adventure of an imaginary lifetime begins. Request your FREE copy today!
“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
“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
Sol Luckman
NOTE ON THE SERIES
The reader who likes words has come to the right place. You, my lucky friend, are pages away from encountering whole sentences, paragraphs, chapters and (for the intrepid) entire new books full of words! Some make sense, some almost do, some seem painstakingly selected, others appear to take wing and escape the net of editorial control, crosshatching these white sheets like crow tracks on snow: visually interesting but devoid of sense.
Allow me, Sol Luckman, or if you prefer, Luke Soloman—in any case the presumed “author” of the “novels” that make up the Beginner’s Luke Series—I say, allow me to be the first to break it to you you’ll find only words here. If by chance you happen to be one of those unfortunate readers who look for “real” people and situations in books, you’re hopelessly naïve, but that’s another subject.
More to the point, you risk becoming seriously disconcerted and coming down with a crippling case of narrative vertigo, as the personages and events depicted herein make absolutely no pretense to so-called reality, content as they are to dispense with the notion of reality once and for all and come to life, so to speak, in textuality.
This includes yours truly. I’m arguably the least real of all my characters, a state of affairs for which I make no apologies, being, indeed, altogether proud of the fact. I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have while, day in and day out, word by word and line by line, constructing a fictitious autobiography for myself in these pages. What follows, in six extraordinary books, is the uncut, uncensored and unbelievable true story of my imaginary life. Enjoy.
Allow me, Sol Luckman, or if you prefer, Luke Soloman—in any case the presumed “author” of the “novels” that make up the Beginner’s Luke Series—I say, allow me to be the first to break it to you you’ll find only words here. If by chance you happen to be one of those unfortunate readers who look for “real” people and situations in books, you’re hopelessly naïve, but that’s another subject.
More to the point, you risk becoming seriously disconcerted and coming down with a crippling case of narrative vertigo, as the personages and events depicted herein make absolutely no pretense to so-called reality, content as they are to dispense with the notion of reality once and for all and come to life, so to speak, in textuality.
This includes yours truly. I’m arguably the least real of all my characters, a state of affairs for which I make no apologies, being, indeed, altogether proud of the fact. I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have while, day in and day out, word by word and line by line, constructing a fictitious autobiography for myself in these pages. What follows, in six extraordinary books, is the uncut, uncensored and unbelievable true story of my imaginary life. Enjoy.
Copyright (c) 2008 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.
Who would you be if you could be anyone? go anywhere? do anything? Well, you can! Luke Soloman will show you how.
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. 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.
A respected New York publisher, whose authors feature a National Book Award finalist in addition to dozens of prestigious award winners, recently 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. One early reader confided, ”I've had quite a journey ever since you shared BEGINNER'S LUKE with me. I'm more careful, these days, when someone gives me a book. I haven't been the same since reading it, as if I contracted the disease of restlessness and have spent months reconsidering every facet of my life. Your novel changed me forever and I blame you for it.”
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“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
“BEGINNER'S LUKE is truly an experience that cannot adequately be described except to say that it is extraordinary and grabs one from the first word of the first chapter and never lets one go. Definitely a spiritual journey that you do not want to put down.” –Niama Williams, Ph.D., Host, “Poetry & Prose & Anything Goes”