Dutching the Book Review by Blitz-Berger
I just love it when an author gives you enough empathy to care about the characters right from the beginning. This book starts very dramatically and you are immediately drawn to the characters. So much so, that it's hard to put down. Then again, it's the kind of book that you don't want to end, wanting to know so much more.
Blitz-Berger March 10, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Accomplishments
My simple formula for life is:
"wake up in the morning looking forward to the day and
go to sleep at night feeling like you accomplished something."
I cleaned out my garage today. :)
"wake up in the morning looking forward to the day and
go to sleep at night feeling like you accomplished something."
I cleaned out my garage today. :)
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Pigeonholes and blackholes
The cliche of the last twenty years has been think 'outside the box' but we are constantly rewarded by being inside the box. We are pigeonholed, demographic'd and stereotyped into convenient little statistical niches so we can be target marketed, zeroed in and classified and dealt with economically and effectively. How nice.
Of course, that makes it easy for us as well, the consumer of goods, art and expression, as we cope with the plethora of material and content. Since they shrunk the day to only twenty four cramped hours (effective day one), we have only a fixed amount of time to digest the input. So we carefully discern what goes in and what stays out. Hence, we pigeonhole as much as our more powerful corporate brethren. Each of us has our subliminal list of goes-intas and goes-outas.
So we have somehow evolved to a society of lazy thinkers-somehow afraid to explore, afraid to get lost, afraid to miss one of our regular pigeonholes we consume so readily, for the sake of something new.
Doesn't fit you? Perhaps. How many times have you tried a different route to a regular destination? A route you had never taken before...a route that you are unsure of where, or how, or if it, will get you where you wanted to go?
Let me know when you do.
Of course, that makes it easy for us as well, the consumer of goods, art and expression, as we cope with the plethora of material and content. Since they shrunk the day to only twenty four cramped hours (effective day one), we have only a fixed amount of time to digest the input. So we carefully discern what goes in and what stays out. Hence, we pigeonhole as much as our more powerful corporate brethren. Each of us has our subliminal list of goes-intas and goes-outas.
So we have somehow evolved to a society of lazy thinkers-somehow afraid to explore, afraid to get lost, afraid to miss one of our regular pigeonholes we consume so readily, for the sake of something new.
Doesn't fit you? Perhaps. How many times have you tried a different route to a regular destination? A route you had never taken before...a route that you are unsure of where, or how, or if it, will get you where you wanted to go?
Let me know when you do.
Monday, February 20, 2012
The genre of life
I get bored easily
So every author needs an identity, a style, a genre, a subject, a signature--to be pigeonholed neatly into holes with the other like pigeons. Unfortunately, or the contrary as I see it, my style is multiple styles/subjects/genres which I have rationalized to be my mega-genre of life.
Yes, while some authors reside comfortably in square one of column A of the menu, I like the variety of the entire menu. It's what I have to say drives my writing. So I may write a satire on advertising and consumerism and how the little guy and gal (that's us) has zero power against the corporate machine (TWEET) . Or I may write a quasi fictional account of horse playing and gambling in 1960's Brooklyn (DUTCHING THE BOOK). Or, in a completely different direction, write about the funniest and most relevant book ever about how to make relationships work (POINTS: women have them, men need them--ps written under the pseudonym Glebe).
So don't look for sequels or a series-instead look for eclectic musing from life. That's where the words come from. So in my pipeline are two new books which should be released the next whenever--a non-fiction satire on making it in the corporate world (UP THE CORP) and a suspenseful tale about a Native American lawyer who uncovers the secret that would change history (THE BIG EMPTY).
Can't help it, it's just my right brain taking control after all these years.
So every author needs an identity, a style, a genre, a subject, a signature--to be pigeonholed neatly into holes with the other like pigeons. Unfortunately, or the contrary as I see it, my style is multiple styles/subjects/genres which I have rationalized to be my mega-genre of life.
Yes, while some authors reside comfortably in square one of column A of the menu, I like the variety of the entire menu. It's what I have to say drives my writing. So I may write a satire on advertising and consumerism and how the little guy and gal (that's us) has zero power against the corporate machine (TWEET) . Or I may write a quasi fictional account of horse playing and gambling in 1960's Brooklyn (DUTCHING THE BOOK). Or, in a completely different direction, write about the funniest and most relevant book ever about how to make relationships work (POINTS: women have them, men need them--ps written under the pseudonym Glebe).
So don't look for sequels or a series-instead look for eclectic musing from life. That's where the words come from. So in my pipeline are two new books which should be released the next whenever--a non-fiction satire on making it in the corporate world (UP THE CORP) and a suspenseful tale about a Native American lawyer who uncovers the secret that would change history (THE BIG EMPTY).
Can't help it, it's just my right brain taking control after all these years.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Luck-incredible
The new show Luck is incredible--great acting, writing, directing about a subject that we never go inside. Love it. That's why I wrote Dutching the Book--to penetrate a world so close yet only from the outside. Of course, it will probably be cancelled.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Dutching the Book-a ten year project
After 10 years: DUTCHING THE BOOK has been just released.
A NYC Fireman out-schemes the track in DUTCHING THE BOOK, Ritch Gaiti's new novel about 1960's Brooklyn.
**"Mesmerizing historical fiction...Bravo!" The Kindle Book Review
Based on real people and events, this is about a world many of us touch but don't go inside. But these guys were inside--they bent the rules and when the rules changed--they bent them again. Dutching the Book is about lifelong friendship, gambling, creative betting schemes and one man's quest to be the best in the game. The epic, which was based on real people and actual events over several decades, is a tribute to the people who really lived it. I knew them all.
Available as an ebook and paperback.
Buy Dutching the Book on Amazon
A NYC Fireman out-schemes the track in DUTCHING THE BOOK, Ritch Gaiti's new novel about 1960's Brooklyn.
**"Mesmerizing historical fiction...Bravo!" The Kindle Book Review
Available as an ebook and paperback.
Buy Dutching the Book on Amazon
Sunday, February 5, 2012
The sandbox
After most of my life in the left brained corporate world, I decided to shift to the right brain. not that I don't love my left brain-but it is very structured. I needed to expand and check off things on my list. So I write-three books thus far; I paint; ethereal paintings of the west and horses; I am developing a social networking platform/game.
My left and right brain are like two kids fighting in a sandbox.
Play nice kids.
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