Fellow Kovacs fans!
It seems counter-productive, on some level, to plug one of my best sellers. It's almost the same anti-logic that crops up at supermarkets, the ones that have special displays for dogfood and toilet paper.
Why do you need a special display for items that people need and would be compelled to search out anyway... even if those items were at the back of the store, under camouflage, with an electrified fence around them?
Not to compare Ernie's Journeys to dogfood, or multi-ply buttwipes.
Its full title is ERNIE'S JOURNEYS: A SOMETIMES WAXING, SOMETIMES CRITICAL, MUSING APPRECIATION OF ERNIE KOVACS.
The title may give you a clue what the book is, but it may also be easier to describe what the book isn't.
A definitive Kovacs biography?
No, not by any means... there are other much larger books that are better candidates for that.
Another re-re-rehash of Kovacs's genius?
Yes and no... again, you can read that "sermon" all over the Internet. This is more a collection of esoteric essays of how he changed our perception of the medium, not just its cosmetic evolution.
Have you ever wondered what Ernie would have done with the advances that came along after his death, which he influenced? What would he make of the Internet? Were there meaningful comparisons, and points of commonality, between Ernie and say, Buster Keaton? Or Lenny Bruce?
This book attempts to respond to these and other slanted, intriguing questions.
Available in e-book format and paperback, Ernie's Journeys is a launch point for anyone who has newly discovered Ernie for themselves and wants more, more, more... and a provocative brain jump for veteran Kovacsphiles!
Already have Everything Ernie in your library, from books to DVDs? This is the icing on the cake; a capstone addition to your Kovacs Kollective!
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