New Year Book suggestions: Author's Recommendations

Assuming you're an adventurous, open-minded reader who hates following the herd, perhaps you may like a few recommendations from among my many books? Well, here goes:

"Rife with inventive comic imagery as “A Confederacy of Dunces,” insightful, subtly searing as “Catcher in the Rye."--Amazon.com 5-star review

The Revised Kama Sutra is, despite its name, about much, much more than sex; but if you prefer the portion of it that deals with childhood, then I suggest One Little Indian, which is much shorter, and in which the emphasis is much more on childhood and growing up.

Shorter, and very different, is the next book, described as "hysterical" and "for the rebel in you" (equally funny, if you don't want the "parenting" parody, is The Empire Bites Back), on some platforms under the pseudonym "Benny Profane."



The Empire Bites Back includes all the humor essays of the above, except for the wisecracking child; it is also more political:



More serious, and a must for those who want to know who I really am at this point in time (also on Apple and BN) : Benzo Land: My Secret Life With Benzodiazepines, Psychiatrists, and Wonder Drugs

under a slightly changed title, or at Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/benzo-land-benzodiazepine/id770908985?mt=11


Or Eaten by the Japanese, which is loved by British readers and by nearly everyone who takes the trouble to read it?

Here's the link:
http://amzn.to/eWVexV 
or at Apple

Or, how about Impressing the Whites or The Killing of an Author (a sense of humor from start to finish"--The Week) for a contrarian voice, one that challenges the Establishment and the corrupt?




Ready to take a risk with something completely different? Try:



ALL OF THE BOOKS ABOVE ARE AVAILABLE HERE: http://Author.to/RichardCrasta 
or by searching Amazon & the other platforms for my name or my pen names: Vijay Prabhu, Benny Profane
  Barnes & Noble
or here
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/richard-crasta/id421345553?mt=11  (Apple)
and
http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/richardcrasta
I recommend, especially: 
IMPRESSING THE WHITES: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004VNMBLI 
http://myBook.to/B004UBFXFC 

Eaten by the Japanese (latest edition): https://www.createspace.com/4014767
http://richardcrasta.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-black-friday-and-my.html http://myBook.to/B00GYB5LGM

For paperbacks, please check my website or my other blog post.

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