Bücher von Doug Rucker

"Doug Rucker's latest, and perhaps final opus, is a touching, thoughtful, and often-humorous compilation of "found" essays and poems about life, aging, the universe and the meaning of it all, presented as a lively conversation between old friends."

Cranthology is a collection of poems, cartoons, stories, excerpts, etc., chosen by the compiler, who is me, Roy Crandal. You will find dictionary poems, straight poems, arbitrary silliness, cartoons, six essays and one special Movie Matinee.

This book is a collection of essays and poetry on philosophy and psychology that I have discovered throughout my life. I have included descriptive prose for better explaination and subjects include, Soul, Love, Life After Death and Mindfulness.

It was long my contention that if anyone should take the time to write about 62,000 consecutive words (about the size of an average book) off the top of his/her head, a reader could learn a great deal about the writer and the writer could learn even more about him/her self. When I got into it, I discovered consecutive words turned into arbitrary essays, some humorous, some autobiographical, some philosophic. Since that's the way it came out I decided to leave it. The writing may not always be terrific but for me the essays are worth saving.

Catchall is a catch of all the variety of my past unorganized thoughts and philosophies. During the last-period of years, I've been writing myself letters and essays about what's gone on in my mind and what I think and believe with a little humor and a few dreams. However, such a variety of thoughts and ideas did not make a single simple topic that might make a single simple book. Pressed with new ideas that would now make a more cohesive book, I thought my former ideas and essays were important enough to be saved in this book. I couldn't see them wasting away in the computer or inaccessible in a notebook. I wanted to give them a life and let them be free to garner whatever brilliance or aversion is their due. In three articles, Body Surfing, Matusak and Raindrops on my Face, I have taken former prose and presented them.

Doug Rucker, in divorce proceedings while being madly in love with a mother of four, was also heavily involved in introspection and psychotherapy. With a persistent artistic temperament it dawned on Doug that if he did a series of drawings with no thought whatever, (No-Think) they'd give him access to his unconscious mind, thus leading him to quicker solutions to his problems. Fifty years later, Doug now makes a more detailed analysis of his daily drawings considering what each line, shape and color represents and sharing revelations he observed behind each separate piece.With over 150 striking, colorful pieces of art to contemplate and enjoy, Doug guides the reader through the meanings of each drawing's color and composition, explaining what they meant to him at the time. No-Think Drawings are meant to be a colorful collection of creative artwork and a personal view into the artist's unconscious mind, drawn by the artist himself.

Growing Edge is the third in a series of autobiography written by the famous mid-century architect, Doug Rucker. In his own words;After making eight, one hundred-page comedy books with cartoons and humorous essays and giving them to friends, and doing enough poetry to fill a four-hundred page book, I finally had the desire remember the past and think maybe I could write it. I'd tell myself the stories of my life. At the age of sixty-five and prompted by my mother's gift of three tattered family photo albums, I was reminded of the past and suddenly wanted to remember everything of that far distant time. I started with my birth. It should organize easily. The outline would be chronological. In remembering everything, perhaps I indulged myself too much, but you be the judge. When I finished the book after writing about graduating from the University of Illinois, I felt, perhaps my life story could not be told in a mere three or four hundred pages. It looked very much like there would at least be a LATER STORIES. ~ Doug Rucker

Learn about THE THROW-AWAY BOOK (If you want.)You might want to throw this book away right now! But again, you might want to leaf through the pages, then throw it away and mutter, "I don't have time for this!" However, you might be intrigued and see the true worth of this rare book, then throw it away. Or you might be sitting on a bench avoiding work while finishing a coffee-break and decide to be mildly amused. In fact, I thought of calling this book THE MILDLY AMUSING BOOK, but thinking again, that wouldn't do it justice. You might ask, "What is its justice?" It has no justice! It's unjustifieable. With this mild warning and before you embark on this remarkable adventure, I say, "Travel at your own risk!" Absorb the intelligence (or lack thereof) of whatever's in (or out) of this original copy of THE THROW-AWAY BOOK! (Then throw it away.)