Can't You Get Along With Anyone?
A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise
By Allan C. Weisbecker
In Search of Captain Zero and Cosmic Banditos author's new writer's memoir.
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Allan C. Weisbecker's Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise exploded into print in the U.S. on October 1st, within a week garnering 60-plus 5 star Amazon Reader Reviews (based on the UK edition) and breaking 1,000 in sales ranking. Word of mouth.
Word of mouth. Here's some from Amazon:
But it's not so much the near unanimous 5 stars. It's what they say. (link opens in a new window)
More Advance Praise for the New U.S. Edition
"With In Search of Captain Zero and now Can't You Get Along With Anyone? I believe Allan Weisbecker is the greatest memoirist of our time."
--Mary Sands, Jack Magazine
"Can't You Get Along With Anyone? is a writer's book about writing. And when I say writer, I mean Writer. I've already compared Weisbecker's writing with Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's, and now I'm going to compare it to Mark Twain's. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn is a Writer. Mark Twain is a Writer. And Allan Weisbecker is a Writer."
--James Maclaren, Ink 19 Magazine
Can't You Get Along With Anyone? takes the gloves off and delivers a punch that transcends memoir. It speeds forward like a train wreck of a psychological thriller."
--Eric Blehm, The Last Season
"As his sanity, health and existence are simultaneously mangled, Weisbecker somehow manages to solve a murder, wrestle the dark side of paradise, and wind up on multiple third world hit lists… Can't You Get Along With Anyone? is a necessity for anyone who believes truth is indeed stranger than fiction… an entrancing, thoughtful and darkly humorous calamity."
--Surfer Magazine
"If you're looking for Hunter S. T's and Kerouac's lost cousin, look no further. In terms of brass balls and lunatic schemes filled with desperadoes, delusions, and dirt roads, Weisbecker goes toe-to-toe with Neal Cassidy/Dean Moriarity any day."
--Jay Sweet, Paste Magazine
Can't You Get Along With Anyone? is a vividly confrontational must-read for anyone who has friends in jail or in the movie or record businesses.
--Jimmy Buffett
"I encourage you to stay (in Central America) until something that resembles death."
--Sean Penn to the author in their last communication
"In all its brutal, dark, hilarious truth, Can't You Get Along With Anyone? belongs in the pantheon of Hollywood memoirs right next to William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade and Which Lie Did I Tell. If Allan Weisbecker were Job, the only woe not heaped upon him are the boils."
--David M. Evans, writer/director/producer (Radio Flyer, The Final Season)
Why are readers and reviewers (plus Sean Penn) reacting this way?
This is how Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise begins. Then it gets confrontational.
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if they're not sold out again (if they say "4 – 6 weeks" to ship, they sold out). |
See Bandito Books' Can't You Get Along With Anyone? online magazine. Subscribe. It's free. There's nothing like it on the Web.
If you're a writer, wannabe writer, or someone who enjoys a great read, it's inevitable that you're going to read this book. Might as well get on with it.
By the way, here's a passage about you. It comes about halfway through the book, after the author's life had taken some dark turns:
A Final Author's Note
This book nearly killed me to write. Three times.
Please read it.