Product Description

At the finale of his critically acclaimed first memoir, In Search of Captain Zero, Allan Weisbecker has found his paradise at the end of the road in outback Central America (Pavones, Costa Rica), and is working of the screen adaptation of the book, commissioned by Sean Penn and a major Hollywood studio. Can t You Get Along With Anyone? is the story of Weisbecker s paradise, its underbelly, his fall from grace with the powers that be in Hollywood and the publishing business, plus the near loss of his life due to the writing of the book; he exposes a double murderer and, more dangerously, the love of his life as a sociopath. Interwoven through the various catastrophes that test him on every level, are Weisbecker s reflections on the process of writing the book itself and the nature of nonfiction. Weathering his after-writing throes, writer s queasy gut, and hemorrhaging forehead (from staring at the blank page), Weisbecker maintains his sanity and perspective through his wry, sometimes wildly funny take on his own fears and flaws, and through retreat into the purity of the simple act of riding a wave.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41975 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 504 pages

Review
As his sanity, health and existence are simultaneously mangled, Weisbecker somehow manages to solve a murder, wrestle the dark side of paradise, and wind up on multiple third world hit lists...Can't You Get Along With Anyone? is a necessity for anyone who believes truth is indeed stranger than fiction...and entrancing, thoughtful and darkly humorous calamity. --Surfer Magazine

If you're looking for Hunter S. T's and Kerouac's lost cousin, look no further. In terms of brass balls and lunatic schemes filled with desperadoes, delusions, and dirt roads, Weisbecker goes toe-to-toe with Neal Cassidy/Dean Moriarity any day. --Jay Sweet, Paste Magazine

With In Search of Captain Zero and now Can't You Get Along With Anyone? I believe Allan Weisbecker is the greatest memoirist of our time. --Mary Sands, Jack Magazine

Paste Magazine
If you're looking for Hunter S. T's and Kerouac's lost cousin, look no further. In terms of brass balls and lunatic schemes filled with desperadoes, delusions, and dirt roads, Weisbecker goes toe-to-toe with Neal Cassidy/Dean Moriarity any day. (Jay Sweet)

Jack Magazine
With In Search of Captain Zero and now Can't You Get Along With Anyone? I believe Allan Weisbecker is the greatest memoirist of our time.(Mary Sands)

Customer Reviews

Very Good Read
Allan is a very gifted writer. It goes to show you that a person doesn't have to be world famous to write a memoir. If they have lead a crazy life like Allan has and can write as well as Allan it's going to be a great book.
I highly recommend it.

Excellent
Came in mint condition hard to believe it was used. Came very quickly, less than two weeks if I remember correctly. Definitely would buy from this seller again.

unhetical
like lots of other people I like ASW. His previous book have been consistently funny and engaging.
so, I was excited when this was out.
But page after page my excitement turned in disgust. This book is just wrong. He's using the book to settle his own scores with arrogance (with his previous publisher, with his expat community in Pavones, with his girlfriend...).
why? How childish of him, trying to circumvent us with the "world global conspiracy" in order to have our empathy.
I just personally feel that the way the book is written it's just unhetical and unfair (can Stecyk reply, can his previous publisher reply?).
I guess I won't wait for his next one... and I doubt there will be a next one anyway.