THE BOOK THAT READS YOU: SURREAL SHORT STORIES - Softcover

Smale, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910734322 ISBN 13: 9781910734322

Publisher: emp3books, 2019

Synopsis

BIZARRE, CURIOUS, UNUSUAL AND UNMISSABLE

Just think what stories could be told by a book that reads its readers. This original and creative book tells what goes right and wrong in readers' lives as seen from a surreal point of view. This work challenges and entertains, stretching the realms of reason and imagination. It has sadness, pleasure and joy. It has the horror of crime and death and it shows the ironic destinies of fools.

I am the book that is reading you as you read me. I know your good and bad thoughts and your emotions. I share secrets with you about people you may recognise, including yourself.

My narratives divulge the shocking and the sad; the horrors of crime and death. I tell you about the joy and pleasure in people. And, you will also see the ironic destinies of the foolish.

I am the surreal book that challenges and delights, expanding the realms of the traditional and the imagination.

I have no idea how or why it happens. My first book could read its readers and I learnt a lot about them, as I have already learnt about you. You see, I do not read you word by word, page by page as you do with me. As soon as you start to look at my words in any form, printed or electronic, I know everything about you. If that scares you then it is too late. I now understand your feelings, your loves and compassion. And I also know all the bad things about people.

You see, you think you are reading me. You are, but I am also reading you. I am inside your head. It's a strange place to be, to be honest. What you say out loud and what you think are different. Your views are given to you by others. There is little that you have discovered or invented that is new. You process the flood of second hand information that has been planted in your mind.

Of course, you think you are reading these words but that voice that lives in you is actually reading this out loud to you. It is the voice you hear when you are thinking, but I can hear it as well. Others just hear your silence.

Go ahead, if you dare. Read me so that I can read more about you and your stories. In return I promise to be a closed book and I will never tell your story to others.

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Review

I was captured by this rich cocktail of humour, darkness, sadness and joy in the mix of stories told. I laughed and cried when I read the surreal metaphors that contain satire and entertainment and it was my pleasure to assist an unknown author in publishing this book.

John Smale, Managing Director, emp3books

About this edition

• Publisher: emp3books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1910734322
• ISBN 13: 9781910734322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132