Humor

A lengthy book, and pleasant to hold in the hand. What is inside it? Hmm ... stanzas, each in the seventeen syllable form of a haiku: yet constituting informative writing in clear and simple prose (like this description you are reading, which is in the same stanza form). What is it about? The cover says: satire on life and religion. Is it funny, then? Sometimes, and sometimes a good deal worse than funny. There are passages, a few, that bring you up short. What were you thinking? About what you met in your life, and what you thought you think about God. (You know, that God, the most hilarious being in the universe.) The book is built of brief discourses, that seem like s ...

When asked to describe what the book is about, I wanted to say 600 pp, going for the laugh. But there are laughs a'plenty in the book, so here is the serious answer. Ultimately, it is about ambition, hope, leadership, and resilience; of doing the right thing and remaining true to one's self, and of extraordinary achievement, both in the private sector and the Republican political arena. The real life incredible stories in the book run the gamut from the stark poverty of the writer's first dozen years to his disciplined approach in turning his extreme shyness into an extroverted personality before your eyes. On the political front, view first hand as Ron takes 3 unwinnable gubernatoria ...

The concluding installment in the Doyce Whisanant narrative, culminating in genetic mutations, cigar shop curmudgeons, international corporate skullduggery, weird phenomena, and general Florida strangeness. Printed on glossy stock, featuring fifty original full-color illustration plates. Volume thirty-one of the Whisanant Mythos.