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A Doghouse Tale released!
(19 Sep 2010 21:30)
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Description :
Case Devries, a cadet midshipman at the US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point NY, is earning some beer money in Eugene Stein's textile warehouse on Saturday afternoons. Rosanne, Eugene's sexy little Italian secretary, picks him up from the Academy gate and drops him off each Saturday, and this leads to the inevitable - a relationship doomed to fail. Or does it? It is in any case it is the upbeat to an adventure that eventually takes Case and his buddy Brian O'Malley years later from their home away from home – the Seamen's Church Institute, otherwise known as “the Doghouse”, to India by way of a speck in the Ocean called Eniwetok, and from there to the ship graveyards in Kaoshiung with a ramshackle rustbucket of a freighter called the S.S. Flower Power. Aptly named for the era in which this adventure takes place and even more so the termination of the era as the Flower Power meets its final destination at the close of the sixties. The motley crew manning the good ship Flower Power couldn't have been more colorful had they been hand-picked by a madman. They range from the utterly chaotic captain Peachfuzz, to the straight-laced day-man George the Marine or the forty-five year old three hundred pound John Aruda, an able bodied seaman and a flower child who rises to every occasion . Such as organizing the marriage of George the Marine and his Filipino bride on the high seas with Peachfuzz having been bribed to perform the ceremony in order to legalize the stowaway bride brought aboard in Manila with the help of just about the entire crew.
And then there is the mysterious container stowed aboard and buried underneath the load of chemical fertilizer they are carrying to India. What is in it, and is it true what Case learned in Eniwetok about its contents and origin? The contents of the container and the wheeling and dealing around its getting back to where it belongs eventually brings Case back into contact with Eugene and Rosanne; the two people he least expected to cross his path again. But after all was said and done it no longer surprised Case that things went the way they did – it was all meant to be this way and it all happened because it had to happen; it was in the cards and even if events are separated by years, it all makes sense in the end. He was the catalyst to start the series of events rectifying an anomaly in this particular space-time continuum; a messenger, a tool of convenience to make the pieces of the puzzle fall into their proper place.
But prior to this philosophical note, A Doghouse Tale is the hilarious story of a motley crew sailing a ship held together by baling wire, paint and a prayer. It touches on the deplorable condition of the U.S. Merchant Marine in the sixties of the twentieth century, when a nation at war which should be able to rely on the best material for the massive logistic operations that all wars require, but in fact presses old battle wagons such as the Flower Power into service, making it the laughing stock of the maritime world. It is also a moving story in that it shows that when the chips are down, no matter what background or grudges the individual crew members may have towards one another, they band together as one to come to the aid of a shipmate.
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The Signature - Volume II released
(17 Aug 2011 02:51)
a political thriller
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Fascinating Folktales of Thailand
(16 Aug 2011 11:13)
The most interesting folktales of Thailand ever written by the Thai author. Retold and translated into English.
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The Signature - Volume I released
(15 Aug 2011 05:16)
In the Signature two extremes are on the cards: one the insignificance of a signature given by a celebrity or and author, two and more importantly is the signature, the seal of agreement, between oppr
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POD books NOW available in print!
(15 Aug 2011 02:38)
Burnt Out in Bangkok, Indochina Chronicles & Deadly Forgery are NOW available in print.
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(12 Aug 2011 21:40)
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Nate’s Thai Education
(12 Aug 2011 02:59)
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(08 Aug 2011 06:04)
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Naga Harvest Festival - Burma
(07 Aug 2011 01:57)
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Bangkok Baby - Loving the Loveless Ladyboys of Bangkok
(03 Aug 2011 11:59)
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Indochina Chronicles (1974-1975)
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Deadly Forgery & A 100 - Carat Diamond
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Top 101 Adult Jokes
(19 Jul 2011 07:07)
Volume 1 of the finest adult jokes compilation will give lots of laughter towards your everyday boring life.
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The Kiss of the Dragon released!
(05 Jul 2011 21:58)
Ex Detective Sergeant Danny O’Brien is back on another case in Thailand, but this time it is personal and he needs help from an old friend.
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