“A rollicking rollercoaster of a romp. In Luke Soloman, Sol Luckman has minted a Walter Mitty for the millennium.” —James Thurber

“Three thumbs up!” —Eugène Ionesco

“Curious. Very curious.” —Mark Twain

“Curiouser and curioser.” —Lewis Carroll

“Luke Soloman does what all of us secretly desire: he throws up everything, vomits cell, capillary, marrow, tissue, organ, thought and belief, cleanses himself of all the toxins that have numbed him into sleepwalking through someone else’s life. And he does it cold turkey—no Prozac, no patch, no inhaler, no gum. That stuff’s for sissies.” —Samuel Beckett

“Marvelously irreverent and irrelevant.” —Allen Ginsberg

“Mythical!” —Joseph Campbell

“A tour de farce!” —Oscar Wilde

“Most people are only young once, but in these pages Sol Luckman clearly experiences a second adolescence.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One can certainly appreciate the author’s libidinous minuteness, if nothing else.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“No one knows better than Luke Soloman that fictional characters are living creatures. Perhaps they’re less real than us, but they’re far more true. All that matters is that they live, truly live in their imaginations—which is to say, in ours—committing as much of their nonexistence to paper as possible.” —Luigi Pirandello

“There was a time when novelists’ lives were more intriguing than their novels. Then for a while neither the novels nor the lives was very intriguing. And now with Luke Soloman, we seem to be entering a phase where the novel is the life. But is it art?” —Charles Bukowski

“Beginner’s Luke, what immoral hand or eye did frame thy wacky asymmetry?” —William Blake

“You call this a life? I call it a nightmare!” —William Makepeace Thackeray

“By contrast, Tom Jones seems a dignified man.” —Henry Fielding

“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