Darwin Country: Or "How The Finch Stole Christmas" | 
 enlarge | Author: Frank Atwill
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 259
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0595263321
Dewey Decimal Number: 918
EAN: 9780595263325
Publication Date: January 7, 2003
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"I'm not sure what God cursed me with the idea of becoming a writer, among the most absurd and unlikely of dreams, right up there with motorcycle stunt jumper. Far more writers commit suicide then are ever published, even if you count poetry magazines only read by other, pre-suicidal writers. It has been calculated that instead of stringing words together, calling it "prose" and trying to sell it to someone you have a far better chance of getting rich if you simply write your name over and over again on sweepstakes entries. You have the added benefit of not having to go bonkers in a futile attempt at coming up with Great New Literature..."Darwin Country is my voyage from Santa Barbara, where wealthy ecologists live in vast mansions, to the Galapagos, where poverty-stricken Ecuadorians riot against environmental laws in one of the last untouched places on earth. It is a comic search for truth, a one-way E-ticket ride to a whole new way of looking at the world. "I do not promise happiness," said the Buddha. "Only the end to suffering." I don't promise either.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Sharp book but grammar and spelling errors abound June 17, 2004
MiBo (Scottsdale, Arizona USA)
I want to like this book, because the premise is humorous and so is the writing. However, I gave up on page 33. Maybe it's just me, but if the author doesn't care enough to check spelling, capitalization and punctuation, I feel like I'm being abused. It seems this book was dictated to a machine, because the spelling errors are due to homonyms: "are" for "our", "where" for "wear", "it's" for "its", "bazaar" for "bizarre". There is something wrong every couple of pages. If you can get past the defects, I think this might be worth reading, but I just kept getting annoyed.
 Laughing all the way April 6, 2003
J. Randall (northern Caliofornia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Darwin Country is a provacative and hilarious midlife search for meaning. It probes some colorful nooks and crannies of the author's privileged Santa Barbara life-style, while examining philosophical and environmental isssues which affect Ecuadorian peasants a world away. Scientists, movie stars, environmentalists, New Age hipsters, bellydancers, wealthy Santa Barbara elite all make appearances in this thought-provoking tale, which prompts us to examine basic ethical assumptions - while laughing all the way.
Darwin's Country March 23, 2003
john Randall (northern California)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Darwin's Country is a highly entertaining extreemly witty philosophical voyage through some of life's vexing questions; from true meaning to a captious look at the growth movements in California. The renowned Galapagos islands and the affluent-protected Santa Barbara provide a backdrop for incisive looks into the often muddled conservation movement and the search for meaning in a shifting universe. Personal, wry, witty and entertaining.
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