Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 504 pages
- Published by: Bandito Books
- Edition: 1st Edition September 24, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0979711703
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0979711701
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches
- Weighs: 2 pounds
Product Review
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 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 19If 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 MagazineWith 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 MagazineAs 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 listsCan't You Get Along With Anyone? is a necessity for anyone who believes truth is indeed stranger than fictionand 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
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
Product Description
At the finale of his critically acclaimed first memoir, In Search of Captain Zero, Allan Weisbecker has found his paradise at the end of the road in outback Central America (Pavones, Costa Rica), and is working of the screen adaptation of the book, commissioned by Sean Penn and a major Hollywood studio. Can t You Get Along With Anyone? is the story of Weisbecker s paradise, its underbelly, his fall from grace with the powers that be in Hollywood and the publishing business, plus the near loss of his life due to the writing of the book; he exposes a double murderer and, more dangerously, the love of his life as a sociopath. Interwoven through the various catastrophes that test him on every level, are Weisbecker s reflections on the process of writing the book itself and the nature of nonfiction. Weathering his after-writing throes, writer s queasy gut, and hemorrhaging forehead (from staring at the blank page), Weisbecker maintains his sanity and perspective through his wry, sometimes wildly funny take on his own fears and flaws, and through retreat into the purity of the simple act of riding a wave.
Reader ReviewsYesterday my copy of "Can't You Get Along With Anyone?" was waiting for me at the doorstep when I got home from work. Began reading and didn't put it down until about 3am, after waking picked it up and read it through until it's finish this afternoon. It pulled me in and I needed to see what would happen next. I haven't had a book keep me up and make me drop kick the next day's resposibilities in quite awhile!! This one did. I loved both Cosmic Bandidos and In Search of Captain Zero but this work by Allan C. Weisbecker has real sand in my opinion, gritty and painfully real at times but sardonic, wry, and flat out funny too. 5 stars from me!
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