I've published a book on Amazon! Yaaay!

http://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Aladdin-ebook/dp/B00CCITEE6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373586554&sr=8-1&keywords=Monkey+Aladdin

What is it about? Well... umm... crazy stuff, I guess. Here's the description I wrote for the Kindle store:

Based partially off the author's own dreams, 'Monkey Aladdin' is a madcap fantasy adventure set in a world that thrives on nonsense, and told in prose that delights in narrative absurdities. After performing the great composition 'Music that Describes the Beautiful State Capital Very Nicely,' dashing violinist Monkey Aladdin finds himself on an epic quest to defeat the evil Mr. G---. Will powerful weapons like the Psychedelic Digital Cucumber be enough to combat 'Julie's School for the Tap Dancing Monkeys?' Will allies such as Bric-a-lot and Grandpa be able to stand against the might of the feared Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeth(2,345)s? Will any of this make sense in the context of the book?

There's only one way to find out!

Part lighthearted satire, part miniature epic, part ridiculous comedy, and part inane experiment, Monkey Aladdin is a wild ride that's sure to leave you bemused confused and amused.

Here's some more info as well as an excerpt from the very beginning (although you can also read the first few chapters on the Amazon page linked above):

http://videogamepotpourri.blogspot.com/2013/04/monkey-aladdin.html

I've worked on it for about 7 years now, off and on. I guess it's more of a trip into my bizarre imagination than anything else. I have absolutely no idea if it's readable or enjoyable. But I figured it was time to inflict it upon the general public, given how easy it is to self-publish on Kindle.

So... yeah... I guess that's all I've got :P. Check it out if it sounds interesting to you!

I'm not sure my brain is ready for that level of unhingedness yet, but I applaud you for publishing a book. By the way, you should remove the [url] tags.

More strength to yer elbow, old thing, well done!

Congratulations! I don't even know you and I'm happy for you! Such an odd feeling. :)
I hope people enjoy your book!



http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CCITEE6

damn formatting... :P

I'll also add my congratulations! You're writing reminds me a bit of Christopher Moore whom I love reading ;-)

Huh. Sounds like I'll have to check him out!

Congrats on publishing! wooot!

How come?

"Download our application to read... text."
I'd rather not :p

..or are you asking why I'm sort of interested? A view into a fellow GOGers mind, wanting to know where it goes from that concert thing, etc. :D

Yeah, I was wondering why you didn't trust Kindle :)

I put up a newer version that fixed some of the formatting problems. So if you bought it, be sure to re-download. There were a few things I didn't catch when I uploaded it originally (thankfully, Kindle allows you to edit your books).

I'm reading with interest, but I'm having trouble relating to the violinist.

Something tremendous happens. A stranger then orders him into a rowboat, and he complies without question. They're together in the boat for hours. The protagonist doesn't ask about what has happened. He doesn't even ask where they are going. They don't speak at all.

Later, he hops into a seemingly-bottomless chasm without a moment's consideration.

He goes for days and days without food and then has a leisurely swim.


So the story is working for me as an interesting sequence of events, certainly. But it's a little bizarre that the prime actor doesn't really react to them.

I think my wife has a Kindle app, so I'll give the rest a look. Well done completing an entire book! I reckon that's a feat beyond most of us. Meaning me.

Yeah, the protagonist's unreasonable stoicism was intentional. The book is supposed to be kind of like some sort of bizarre dream. I don't know about anyone else, but I know that in most of my dreams, I don't have much in the way of motivation. I just progress. I don't really question what's going on, or try to act toward any particular goal (even if I have one in mind). Hence, he (the main character) is kind of just along for the ride. I've done a few re-writes over the 7 years I've worked on 'Monkey Aladdin,' and at one point I did experiment with trying to "explain" the protagonist's actions and give him some sort of motivation. But it didn't really feel right. The book lost something, at least for me. So, he went back to being an uninteresting pawn. Something similar happened with the prose. It's deliberately stilted. And at one point I tried to fix that, and the book lost something. So I made it stilted again. Which was actually a lot of fun. There are tons of stupid little puns or quirks hidden in the text (for instance, notice that "my eyes" is ALWAYS "mine eyes." As in "mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." Why? Because I've always thought it sounded hilarious).