The Bottomless Bottle of Beer

4.3/5 ( ratings)

On Kindle Since July 20, 2013

The story of a naive young man who trades his soul for a bottomless bottle of beer, but has a change of heart and tries to get his soul back.

The tale recalls such writers as Neil Gaiman, H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen Vincent Benét, Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Honoré de Balzac, Herman Melville, John Milton, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and more.

"A Hero of Our Postmodern Time!"

". . . a Bulgakovian satire carried out with aplomb . . ." Michael Geoffrey Chivers, Writer , UK

"What a fantastic story! Right on a par with Alice in Wonderland! A fine blend of the ominous and the hilarious, resonant of the great classics and contemporary theoretical fads. The illustrations seem just right -- humorous, with the proper amount of spookiness." - Ji-moon Suh, Professor of English Literature, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

"This is really quite marvelous. I liked it a LOT. The illustrations are super cool! I like everything about it. Very funny style, most excellent." - Pete Hale, Physicist, Lafayette, Colorado, USA

"I enjoyed the Faustian story very much. The illustrations are beautiful, very vivid and apt, reminiscent almost of Chagall." - Eli Park Sorensen, Professor of Humanities, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

"A brilliant idea, that, to expose scientism and postmodernism through a college graduate too ignorant to recognize the devil et al. when he meets them. Bravo." - John L. Heilbron, Professor of History, UC Berkeley, California, USA

"I liked the illustrations and the content. It was an intriguing book in every sense." - Seong-Kon Kim, Professor of English Literature, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

"I love the wordplay, a great story that gave me chills." - John Wells, Editor, The Official Size and Weight EBeer ENews, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA