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There and Back There Again
Introduction
Welcome to my book, There and Back There Again by Andy Alsup ~ Village Savant.
My story has a few themes:
- technology
- music
- culture
- Seattle
- religion
- Aspergers
- schizophrenia
- psychic musings
I write a lot about my daily experience. It primarily revolves around my ongoing conversation with a variety of voices I hear in my head. I call this experience a couple of things. It is psychic. It is a network of identities. It is public. It is hilarious.
This is an introduction to give you an idea what I’m talking about with the conflict oriented stuff I write, and what I call chipmunk.
I hear voices. They are best described as auditory hallucinations. Sometimes they’re identifiable. Sometimes they’re words in my thoughts that don’t have sound, they don’t belong there, and they’re clearly someone else’s words.
I have called them a psychic phenomenon. I believe these are real people. They sometimes identify themselves. Sometimes I can hear who they are. Almost always they lie about their identity. They are always consistently wrong about people I know. They attempt to be identified as these people for a variety of reasons, but mostly to try to establish credibility because they have none and to attempt to manipulate.
I always tell the voices I will not accept them trying to do that.
I call the voices chipmunk because they sound squeaky, clown car because it’s one after another, and douchebag because they’re intrusive and self satisfied losers.
The reality is that the attempts to manipulate are trying to control me or lure me into doing something for reasons they are never honest about.
The voices are abusive, hostile, immature, and nonstop nonsense. They are factually wrong about everything. They lie about their motives, their information, their coordination with each other, and people that I know are not how the voices describe them.
The voices constantly attempt to indicate they are interfering in my life or are people I would want to have input from. They do this for a variety of reasons but it comes down to stupidity and probably people just wasting their time who have nothing better to do.
Sometimes they describe this as entertainment. They say they watch me either through their computer, or that they experience the same phenomenon I do in their head, and they see me remotely. I don’t know what that is like. I do sometimes see people doing things, and I can sometimes hear their thoughts.
I have the ability to give them words I make them say. I can also give them thoughts, or make them do things.
I sometimes smell or feel things that are also psychic.
The voices are real people behaving badly.
~~~
sa·vant saˈvän(t),säˈvän(t) noun
a learned person, especially a distinguished scientist.
synonyms: intellectual, scholar, sage, philosopher, thinker, wise/learned person
~~
People have asked me about the choice of the word savant for my Facebook page.
I'll put it this way. Genius doesn't cover it. I'm beyond that.
Savant indicates epic level wisdom in an area that also accompanies a deficit.
My savant is people.
I can see your soul at a glance. I can write and speak words on every day topics that make you stand with applause. I can talk you under the table with logic. I can explain the universe in a few words. I can make science deliciously funny, 12 hours in the brisket lab with a pbr. I have done it all with technology, and I can take you into the future. I am fluent in music and film that people resonate with, but can't remember why. I think things that happen because I think them. I can change your words in your mouth. I know what to tell you to freak you out or calm you. I can describe you to yourself in ways you know but never knew.
I'll need your help to meet a girl.
~ Andy ~ Village Savant ~ The Smartest Guy On the Planet
https://www.facebook.com/villagesavant/
Welcome to my book, There and Back There Again by Andy Alsup ~ Village Savant.
My story has a few themes:
- technology
- music
- culture
- Seattle
- religion
- Aspergers
- schizophrenia
- psychic musings
I write a lot about my daily experience. It primarily revolves around my ongoing conversation with a variety of voices I hear in my head. I call this experience a couple of things. It is psychic. It is a network of identities. It is public. It is hilarious.
This is an introduction to give you an idea what I’m talking about with the conflict oriented stuff I write, and what I call chipmunk.
I hear voices. They are best described as auditory hallucinations. Sometimes they’re identifiable. Sometimes they’re words in my thoughts that don’t have sound, they don’t belong there, and they’re clearly someone else’s words.
I have called them a psychic phenomenon. I believe these are real people. They sometimes identify themselves. Sometimes I can hear who they are. Almost always they lie about their identity. They are always consistently wrong about people I know. They attempt to be identified as these people for a variety of reasons, but mostly to try to establish credibility because they have none and to attempt to manipulate.
I always tell the voices I will not accept them trying to do that.
I call the voices chipmunk because they sound squeaky, clown car because it’s one after another, and douchebag because they’re intrusive and self satisfied losers.
The reality is that the attempts to manipulate are trying to control me or lure me into doing something for reasons they are never honest about.
The voices are abusive, hostile, immature, and nonstop nonsense. They are factually wrong about everything. They lie about their motives, their information, their coordination with each other, and people that I know are not how the voices describe them.
The voices constantly attempt to indicate they are interfering in my life or are people I would want to have input from. They do this for a variety of reasons but it comes down to stupidity and probably people just wasting their time who have nothing better to do.
Sometimes they describe this as entertainment. They say they watch me either through their computer, or that they experience the same phenomenon I do in their head, and they see me remotely. I don’t know what that is like. I do sometimes see people doing things, and I can sometimes hear their thoughts.
I have the ability to give them words I make them say. I can also give them thoughts, or make them do things.
I sometimes smell or feel things that are also psychic.
The voices are real people behaving badly.
~~~
sa·vant saˈvän(t),säˈvän(t) noun
a learned person, especially a distinguished scientist.
synonyms: intellectual, scholar, sage, philosopher, thinker, wise/learned person
~~
People have asked me about the choice of the word savant for my Facebook page.
I'll put it this way. Genius doesn't cover it. I'm beyond that.
Savant indicates epic level wisdom in an area that also accompanies a deficit.
My savant is people.
I can see your soul at a glance. I can write and speak words on every day topics that make you stand with applause. I can talk you under the table with logic. I can explain the universe in a few words. I can make science deliciously funny, 12 hours in the brisket lab with a pbr. I have done it all with technology, and I can take you into the future. I am fluent in music and film that people resonate with, but can't remember why. I think things that happen because I think them. I can change your words in your mouth. I know what to tell you to freak you out or calm you. I can describe you to yourself in ways you know but never knew.
I'll need your help to meet a girl.
~ Andy ~ Village Savant ~ The Smartest Guy On the Planet
https://www.facebook.com/villagesavant/
157 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 28, 2018
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July 1, 2018
I actually won a KINDLE copy of this book through a giveaway the author had here on Amazon and the following is my honest opinion.
There are some remarkable people out there, who are capable of exhibiting abilities that surpass those which you and I might possess. These areas include, but are not limited to, mathematical prowess, visually creative or musical prowess, or when it comes to someone like me a prowess in creative writing [me = romance].
I found Mr. Alsup’s essay writing to be best described as being assertively poignant which touch upon the challenging occurrences of his personal life and balanced with a few of the more pleasant ones. However, to reach an understanding of what this author is attempting to communicate, one needs to get by trying to distinguish between his writing about the real people in his life from the ones which happen to be imaginary.
The essays themselves are quite delightfully thought-provoking; and although one might not know anything about this author on page one, by the end of the book one comes to realize most of this author’s life has been rather appalling.
For having given his readers an insight into his personal private life through the writing of these essays, I’ve given this author 5 STARS for his intelligent endeavor here.
There are some remarkable people out there, who are capable of exhibiting abilities that surpass those which you and I might possess. These areas include, but are not limited to, mathematical prowess, visually creative or musical prowess, or when it comes to someone like me a prowess in creative writing [me = romance].
I found Mr. Alsup’s essay writing to be best described as being assertively poignant which touch upon the challenging occurrences of his personal life and balanced with a few of the more pleasant ones. However, to reach an understanding of what this author is attempting to communicate, one needs to get by trying to distinguish between his writing about the real people in his life from the ones which happen to be imaginary.
The essays themselves are quite delightfully thought-provoking; and although one might not know anything about this author on page one, by the end of the book one comes to realize most of this author’s life has been rather appalling.
For having given his readers an insight into his personal private life through the writing of these essays, I’ve given this author 5 STARS for his intelligent endeavor here.
October 23, 2018
Interesting and unique read
July 24, 2018
When I began reading this book, I wasn't sure if Andy was a little on the cracked side or if this was fiction. I kept reading. Then I started researching. By the end of the book, I still don't know if Andy is a little cracked and sees parts of reality the rest of us blur over, or whether he's a genius that sees parts of reality the rest of us blur over. Either way, he's pretty entertaining. The reason I only gave this book three stars is that I ended with more questions than I started with. Perhaps I'll Facebook him and ask him my questions. Perhaps I won't. It's actually more fun not knowing than being fully satiated.
If you decide this is the book for you, and you know nothing about Andrew Alsup, I strongly urge you to take a quick peak at his Facebook page before beginning the book. I was confused the entire way through about psychic speak and chipmunks and a few seconds on his page quickly cleared that up. It's not stalking, Andrew! It's marketing! ;)
The first half of the book reads as sort of an open letter to the 'ugly' parts of his world. The second half of the book has a pretty good assortment of items. We find lots of interesting tidbits ranging from Bible information to Poe.
Even though I didn't loooove this book, I did see a lot of promise in Alsup. I'm sincerely hoping that he decides to put out a fiction book. I wouldn't knock down the Barnes & Noble front door for this one, but I would if he wrote something novelish. He's a bit of a perfectionist and has a flair for the creative. I just want to see him harness that in a way that will effect more people and be more universally understood.
If you decide this is the book for you, and you know nothing about Andrew Alsup, I strongly urge you to take a quick peak at his Facebook page before beginning the book. I was confused the entire way through about psychic speak and chipmunks and a few seconds on his page quickly cleared that up. It's not stalking, Andrew! It's marketing! ;)
The first half of the book reads as sort of an open letter to the 'ugly' parts of his world. The second half of the book has a pretty good assortment of items. We find lots of interesting tidbits ranging from Bible information to Poe.
Even though I didn't loooove this book, I did see a lot of promise in Alsup. I'm sincerely hoping that he decides to put out a fiction book. I wouldn't knock down the Barnes & Noble front door for this one, but I would if he wrote something novelish. He's a bit of a perfectionist and has a flair for the creative. I just want to see him harness that in a way that will effect more people and be more universally understood.
June 20, 2018
There and Back There Again, a memoir (of sorts) written by Andrew (Andy) Alsup, is an aggressively emotional collection of short essays that detail the difficult experiences and a handful of happy-cum-funny experiences from Andy’s daily life.
Andy keeps us engaged and thoroughly interested when he talks so lovingly about Rudi, Amber, Sasha, and Dummy—his pets. However, I have to say that “characterization” was totally lacking in this book. It was really difficult to identify when Andy was referring to real-life people and when he was referring to those imaginary voices. Also, whom did these voices belong to?
While the book shows that a lot of events have contributed to Andy’s distress in life, I cannot ignore the lack of sufficient interesting content in it that would make it appealing to someone who doesn’t know him personally. The unnecessary repetition, the lack of necessary description, and the lack of an understandable sequence of events also affected the overall reading experience.
Andy keeps us engaged and thoroughly interested when he talks so lovingly about Rudi, Amber, Sasha, and Dummy—his pets. However, I have to say that “characterization” was totally lacking in this book. It was really difficult to identify when Andy was referring to real-life people and when he was referring to those imaginary voices. Also, whom did these voices belong to?
While the book shows that a lot of events have contributed to Andy’s distress in life, I cannot ignore the lack of sufficient interesting content in it that would make it appealing to someone who doesn’t know him personally. The unnecessary repetition, the lack of necessary description, and the lack of an understandable sequence of events also affected the overall reading experience.
April 15, 2018
I would just like to say this is an amazing book I can't believe the similarities and concepts that are identified in this book. It has helped me in the current situation I am going threw after there was a breach in my civil rights. It has given me the will to keep my stand. Andrew alsup is a very creative writer and I hope others read this and enjoy it as well.
October 14, 2023
The premise of the book is established at the beginning: the voices the speaker can hear in his head as well as his psychic abilities. The voices are called 'chipmunk' – or douchebag because they are abusive, hostile, and factually wrong – because they squeak. These voices are trying to deliver messages that the speaker refuses to engage, presenting themselves as the American government. The first part of the book discusses the voices, the second part touches on his psychic abilities, and the third part of the book provides Bible excerpts and an essay on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven as well as poetry and Applied Maths.
On the one hand, the writing style is very unusual; the book reads like a stream of consciousness. There are thoughts put down on paper which form a story full of information for readers to identify what they can understand and what they can relate to, then make of that what they will. As established at the beginning of the book, there are many themes, such as music, culture, and religion. The book heavily refers to the American government and might be its target audience.
On the other hand, this format makes the book extremely confusing as there is no clear distinction between Alsup, Andy, the voices, as well as the additional characters featured. The book is also inconsistent with the use of strong language. There is ultimately a lot of anger projected throughout the book as the voices are abusive and the speaker refuses to fall victim to the conspiracy these voices are trying to pass as true information. Furthermore, the book is written in the first person, but Alsup is frequently referred to in the third person, and readers are invited into the story through the book’s use of the second person. All of this makes the perspective confusing. Is chipmunk in the speaker’s head or Andy’s? Without a clear understanding, connecting with the speaker is therefore difficult.
This is a complex read so it cannot be read casually, and there are plenty of spelling errors, particularly in the use of homophones. There is also no clear distinction between the characters featured, and the book reaches out to specific readers. Nonetheless, the book is engaging and with the correct reader, the book succeeds in grabbing hold of their attention.
I received a free review copy. Thank you to OnlineBookClub and author.
On the one hand, the writing style is very unusual; the book reads like a stream of consciousness. There are thoughts put down on paper which form a story full of information for readers to identify what they can understand and what they can relate to, then make of that what they will. As established at the beginning of the book, there are many themes, such as music, culture, and religion. The book heavily refers to the American government and might be its target audience.
On the other hand, this format makes the book extremely confusing as there is no clear distinction between Alsup, Andy, the voices, as well as the additional characters featured. The book is also inconsistent with the use of strong language. There is ultimately a lot of anger projected throughout the book as the voices are abusive and the speaker refuses to fall victim to the conspiracy these voices are trying to pass as true information. Furthermore, the book is written in the first person, but Alsup is frequently referred to in the third person, and readers are invited into the story through the book’s use of the second person. All of this makes the perspective confusing. Is chipmunk in the speaker’s head or Andy’s? Without a clear understanding, connecting with the speaker is therefore difficult.
This is a complex read so it cannot be read casually, and there are plenty of spelling errors, particularly in the use of homophones. There is also no clear distinction between the characters featured, and the book reaches out to specific readers. Nonetheless, the book is engaging and with the correct reader, the book succeeds in grabbing hold of their attention.
I received a free review copy. Thank you to OnlineBookClub and author.
December 8, 2023
Book: There And Back There again
This book is complete nonsense and it makes no sense. I honestly read this book twice trying to look for meaning and I just couldn't,there's no message of the book or even sense to it. It's as if the writer had no inspiration for the book or started it and was forced to finish it. Every chapter in this book doesn't make the slightest bit of sense, it book is leaning more towards mental illnesses and no cure. The language is completely inappropriate even though the full words aren't there.
In addition to that I would rate this book a full on 1 out of 5 stars where one is bad and 5 is good,if I could possibly rate in negatives I definitely would. There was not any typing mistakes or errors from what i have seen though it seems and it is the diction is the primary problem.
Aswell as this book clearly has no story or aim within it. It's just all over the place jumping from word to word trying to make a sentence. Nothing actually makes sense in it as I've said in the above.
I am not saying the author is the problem,but obviously it's the choice of words and thinking. The name of the book doesn't even go with the book itself it's just so confusing and makes completely no sense and it's just so vulger and time consuming to understand where there is nothing to understand.
Though overall it could have been an amazing book had there just been more effort and energy put towards it and in detail. There is no descriptions and it lacks imagery above all unfortunately.
It's as if this book was just meant to drain all of the positivity of the world out from the reader.
This book is complete nonsense and it makes no sense. I honestly read this book twice trying to look for meaning and I just couldn't,there's no message of the book or even sense to it. It's as if the writer had no inspiration for the book or started it and was forced to finish it. Every chapter in this book doesn't make the slightest bit of sense, it book is leaning more towards mental illnesses and no cure. The language is completely inappropriate even though the full words aren't there.
In addition to that I would rate this book a full on 1 out of 5 stars where one is bad and 5 is good,if I could possibly rate in negatives I definitely would. There was not any typing mistakes or errors from what i have seen though it seems and it is the diction is the primary problem.
Aswell as this book clearly has no story or aim within it. It's just all over the place jumping from word to word trying to make a sentence. Nothing actually makes sense in it as I've said in the above.
I am not saying the author is the problem,but obviously it's the choice of words and thinking. The name of the book doesn't even go with the book itself it's just so confusing and makes completely no sense and it's just so vulger and time consuming to understand where there is nothing to understand.
Though overall it could have been an amazing book had there just been more effort and energy put towards it and in detail. There is no descriptions and it lacks imagery above all unfortunately.
It's as if this book was just meant to drain all of the positivity of the world out from the reader.
November 24, 2023
What is this? What did I just read?
This book is a set of unconnected ramblings that I suspect have been taken straight from the internet. As someone who has no damn clue who the author is, &, quite frankly, doesn't give a bloody damn who he is, this book seemed to me like the ramblings of a megalomaniac who thinks he's the fucking Pope, or whoever. Not to mention that a good chunk of this book is made up of direct quotes from the bible, an entire fucking essay by Poe stolen from the internet, & poems that I know at least one of them isn't this author's own work. You have so little to say, that you can't even fill up 120 pages of your own thoughts & feelings. I'm half your damn age & I have enough thoughts & experiences to fill up an entire bloody encyclopedia.
Really, Andy, you're not special & you're not unique. And go get yourself some meds for those voices you're hearing, because that isn't normal.
This book is a set of unconnected ramblings that I suspect have been taken straight from the internet. As someone who has no damn clue who the author is, &, quite frankly, doesn't give a bloody damn who he is, this book seemed to me like the ramblings of a megalomaniac who thinks he's the fucking Pope, or whoever. Not to mention that a good chunk of this book is made up of direct quotes from the bible, an entire fucking essay by Poe stolen from the internet, & poems that I know at least one of them isn't this author's own work. You have so little to say, that you can't even fill up 120 pages of your own thoughts & feelings. I'm half your damn age & I have enough thoughts & experiences to fill up an entire bloody encyclopedia.
Really, Andy, you're not special & you're not unique. And go get yourself some meds for those voices you're hearing, because that isn't normal.
January 24, 2020
An offensive and enigmatic book!
This has to be one of the few books of which I have no idea what precisely it is all about. Either this is a very good book and the author is talking above my comprehension, or the book is a mistake which somehow got published! Perhaps if you enjoy enigma's and would enjoy solving this one, then I would recommend this book for you. However, I found the foul language and inane repetition in it to be annoying, at the very least. The chapters bore no relation to each other or to a central theme at all and appeared to be an incoherent jumble of the authors paranoia with this world.
This has to be one of the few books of which I have no idea what precisely it is all about. Either this is a very good book and the author is talking above my comprehension, or the book is a mistake which somehow got published! Perhaps if you enjoy enigma's and would enjoy solving this one, then I would recommend this book for you. However, I found the foul language and inane repetition in it to be annoying, at the very least. The chapters bore no relation to each other or to a central theme at all and appeared to be an incoherent jumble of the authors paranoia with this world.
November 7, 2018
Interesting
This is a interesting read. I would definitely recommend it to anyone and everyone. I enjoyed how he put Bible verses in there.
This is a interesting read. I would definitely recommend it to anyone and everyone. I enjoyed how he put Bible verses in there.
January 9, 2019
So confusing.
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June 24, 2019According to me, the writer totally failed to capture my attention. However much i tried to read, it was all in vain since i failed to follow and for that reason, I gave up since it is contradictory.
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February 14, 2024
I would skip this one it is definitely the writing of someone with a troubled mind. I feel bad for the author and just hope they are okay
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