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(May 17, 2011) Goodreads Members: The first five people who write to me today will be sent the Kindle version of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
Please send me your email address so I can gift you the Kindle version of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled. I will only gift the first five Goodreads members who write to me today. (May 17, 2011)
Bert Murray
Author, Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
Bert Murray
Author, Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
For a limited time Kindle copy only 99 cents on Amazon
Dear Goodreads members,
For a limited time, the kindle version of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled is available on Amazon for just 99 cents.
Thanks,
Bert Murray
Author, Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
For a limited time, the kindle version of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled is available on Amazon for just 99 cents.
Thanks,
Bert Murray
Author, Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
Lindsay Edmunds' 4 stars Goodreads review of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
Rating: 4 stars
Easy, breezy, and sounds true. College student Colin Preston studies, parties, works out at the gym, argues with his father, and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Jasmine, hoping that this love will magically cause his life to make sense. He loves the Beatles. He is a likeable guy with no special powers, dark secrets, or twisted family ties. This is refreshing.
This novel is good at capturing the mixture of child and adult in college-age kids. It has quite a few recognizable moments. A light, fast read.
Easy, breezy, and sounds true. College student Colin Preston studies, parties, works out at the gym, argues with his father, and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Jasmine, hoping that this love will magically cause his life to make sense. He loves the Beatles. He is a likeable guy with no special powers, dark secrets, or twisted family ties. This is refreshing.
This novel is good at capturing the mixture of child and adult in college-age kids. It has quite a few recognizable moments. A light, fast read.
Amanda Welling's 4 stars Goodreads review of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
Rating: 4 stars
The author writes beautifully, and this was a completely pain-free novel to breeze through. 4.5 stars and will be recommended to all of my college buddies.
As a college student, it was easy to relate to the characters, and it was also interesting to see college life through the eyes of a young man (something I think, every young woman wishes she could do once in awhile.) I laughed out loud at the authors use of wit and humor and had a very difficult time putting this book down. Excellent job!
The author writes beautifully, and this was a completely pain-free novel to breeze through. 4.5 stars and will be recommended to all of my college buddies.
As a college student, it was easy to relate to the characters, and it was also interesting to see college life through the eyes of a young man (something I think, every young woman wishes she could do once in awhile.) I laughed out loud at the authors use of wit and humor and had a very difficult time putting this book down. Excellent job!
Five stars Amazon review of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled by Porter H. Warren, M.D.
Sensitive Sophomore, February 5, 2011
Rating: Five stars
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Young Colin Preston is not a happy sophomore. Although nineteen and handsome and loved by women, he is sensitive and sincere and when hurt has only The Beatles and other Rock stars and their songs for consolation. He has attended a prestigious private school before college and receives everything he needs from his Upper East Side parents except the one crucial thing, total acceptance. He longs for this, and gets a considerable amount from his best guy friend and his beautiful girl friend until he encounters a disaster. His music tapes and a Visiting Professor from Spain enable him to barely survive. His story is beautifully told using the short-hand expressions of his time. He is such a "noticer"that the tale is intricate and penetrating. One eagerly turns the page completely caught up in the ways Colin will use the methods of coping with life expressed by the artists from the Beatles to Frank Zappa. It is a story rich in romance, intensity, sexuality and psychology- a winner.
Rating: Five stars
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Colin Preston Rocked and Rolled (Paperback)
Young Colin Preston is not a happy sophomore. Although nineteen and handsome and loved by women, he is sensitive and sincere and when hurt has only The Beatles and other Rock stars and their songs for consolation. He has attended a prestigious private school before college and receives everything he needs from his Upper East Side parents except the one crucial thing, total acceptance. He longs for this, and gets a considerable amount from his best guy friend and his beautiful girl friend until he encounters a disaster. His music tapes and a Visiting Professor from Spain enable him to barely survive. His story is beautifully told using the short-hand expressions of his time. He is such a "noticer"that the tale is intricate and penetrating. One eagerly turns the page completely caught up in the ways Colin will use the methods of coping with life expressed by the artists from the Beatles to Frank Zappa. It is a story rich in romance, intensity, sexuality and psychology- a winner.
Lindsay Edmunds' Four stars Amazon Review of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled, May 17, 2011
Easy, breezy, and sounds true.
College student Colin Preston studies, parties, works out at the gym, argues with his father, and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Jasmine, hoping that this love will magically cause his life to make sense. He loves the Beatles. He is a likeable guy with no special powers, dark secrets, or twisted family ties. This is refreshing.
This novel is good at capturing the mixture of child and adult in college-age kids. It has quite a few recognizable moments and some poignant ones.
(From Lindsay Edmunds' Four stars Amazon Review of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled, May 17, 2011)
College student Colin Preston studies, parties, works out at the gym, argues with his father, and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Jasmine, hoping that this love will magically cause his life to make sense. He loves the Beatles. He is a likeable guy with no special powers, dark secrets, or twisted family ties. This is refreshing.
This novel is good at capturing the mixture of child and adult in college-age kids. It has quite a few recognizable moments and some poignant ones.
(From Lindsay Edmunds' Four stars Amazon Review of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled, May 17, 2011)
Rachel's Five stars Amazon review of Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled, May 28, 2011
Highly recommended
Five stars
Great book! It's a quick read, lighter and more fun than Prep. I loved experiencing college firsts with Colin, including his first love, and his friendships off the beaten path with a jock, a college professor and a social misfit. The book will having you rooting for Colin, and hurting for Colin, as he makes his way through his year at Elerby. The Beatles references are right on. Perhaps have your itunes ready so you can hear the soundtrack that plays in Colin's mind... I'm waiting for the sequel!
(From Rachel's Five stars Amazon review, May 28, 2011)
Five stars
Great book! It's a quick read, lighter and more fun than Prep. I loved experiencing college firsts with Colin, including his first love, and his friendships off the beaten path with a jock, a college professor and a social misfit. The book will having you rooting for Colin, and hurting for Colin, as he makes his way through his year at Elerby. The Beatles references are right on. Perhaps have your itunes ready so you can hear the soundtrack that plays in Colin's mind... I'm waiting for the sequel!
(From Rachel's Five stars Amazon review, May 28, 2011)
Author Meredith Sue Willis on Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
Meredith Sue Willis's
Books for Readers # 139
February 10, 2011
MSW ON COLIN PRESTON ROCKED AND ROLLED
COLIN PRESTON ROCKED AND ROLLED by "Bert Murray" is a novel that does a wonderful job of capturing the voices and lives of a certain time and place. The use of music– both music contemporary to the characters and Colin's beloved Beatles (already, of course, at the time of the novel, classic)– works especially well. Instead of using words, Colin, when in the grip of a strong emotion, puts on an appropriate song. Overall, the compactness of the story and the ease with which one identifies with Colin and his situation create an inevitability about the events that has an almost tragic quality as well as a strong structure. I felt I experienced it all with Colin, and it was a pleasure to read.
About Meredith Sue Willis:
A well-known speaker and writer about the teaching of writing, her own novels include A Space Apart, Higher Ground, Only Great Changes, Trespassers, and Oradell at Sea. Her short story collections are In the Mountains of America and Dwight's House and Other Stories. Her work has been praised in periodicals like The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The San Francisco Chronicle, and many other periodicals.
She has won major awards including literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the arts, and her fiction has won prizes like the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and the West Virginia Library Association Award (1980), as well as the Chaffin Award for fiction.
Books for Readers # 139
February 10, 2011
MSW ON COLIN PRESTON ROCKED AND ROLLED
COLIN PRESTON ROCKED AND ROLLED by "Bert Murray" is a novel that does a wonderful job of capturing the voices and lives of a certain time and place. The use of music– both music contemporary to the characters and Colin's beloved Beatles (already, of course, at the time of the novel, classic)– works especially well. Instead of using words, Colin, when in the grip of a strong emotion, puts on an appropriate song. Overall, the compactness of the story and the ease with which one identifies with Colin and his situation create an inevitability about the events that has an almost tragic quality as well as a strong structure. I felt I experienced it all with Colin, and it was a pleasure to read.
About Meredith Sue Willis:
A well-known speaker and writer about the teaching of writing, her own novels include A Space Apart, Higher Ground, Only Great Changes, Trespassers, and Oradell at Sea. Her short story collections are In the Mountains of America and Dwight's House and Other Stories. Her work has been praised in periodicals like The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The San Francisco Chronicle, and many other periodicals.
She has won major awards including literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the arts, and her fiction has won prizes like the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and the West Virginia Library Association Award (1980), as well as the Chaffin Award for fiction.
Author John Altman on Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
"Bert Murray has produced a novel that is simultaneously absorbing, moving and funny - a character-driven page-turner that captures lightning in a bottle, and preserves a moment in time for eternity. I found the Beatles (and especially John Lennon) material compelling on several levels - as a fan, yes, but more so as a symbol of a generation gap, a figure for a grasping adolescent (or adult) to use when trying to figure things out, and as a touchstone - something every character and situation can be informed by."
- John Altman, author of The Watchmen and A Gathering of Spies
- John Altman, author of The Watchmen and A Gathering of Spies
Free Kindle Copy To The First 10 Goodreads members who send me their email address (June, 2011)
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Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
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Colin Preston Rocked and Rolled
Colin Preston Rocked And Rolled
Write to me (Bert Murray) on Goodreads or send me an email to bertmurray2@gmail.com
Please provide your email address so I can send you a free Kindle gift copy from Amazon
I only ask that you rate the novel on Goodreads & write a short review (just a couple of sentences is fine)
Colin Preston Rocked and Rolled
