Dan Clark » Best Books http://www.DanNitroClark.com aka Nitro Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:04:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Last Minute Christmas Gift! http://www.DanNitroClark.com/2009/12/last-minute-christmas-gift/ http://www.DanNitroClark.com/2009/12/last-minute-christmas-gift/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:22:52 +0000 Dan http://www.DanNitroClark.com/?p=692 Looking for a last minute Christmas gift?  I've got something that will make a PERFECT stocking-stuffer and has zero calories.  It's even kind of heavy.  One could perhaps lift it over and over again and blast a few calories.  

More than anything this gift will ease the eternal chatter in ones brain and ease up on the straightjacket of consciousness for a few seconds. 

What is this thing? 

It's a book.  Humbly, my book:  Gladiator – A True Story of Roids, Rage and Redemption.

My powers of persuasion are not great. Instead I share with you  what others other are saying about this last minute stock-stuffer:

"This book is triumphant!"
              - ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

"Nitro's respective is a ripping good read!"
              - SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

"If you read one book one vacation this year, this has to be it!"
               – CHUCK PALAHNUIK (Fight Club)

"Inspiring, courageous and compelling.  I cried four times."
               – KAREN LUTZ (Legally Blonde, The Ugly Truth.)

“Dan Clark possesses the emotional honesty, humility and depth together with the innate literary talent and stylistic sensibility to execute this memoir with stunning eloquence and power. His lean, muscular prose never wavers off course as it leads us through his unspeakable loss, overwhelming success and ultimately into a kind of acceptance and redemption. As readers, we are fortunate that not all talented writers march automatically through grad school and into publication; some first become comics and undertakers and whalers and American Gladiators.”      
              -AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS (Running With Scissors)

Hopefully the words of others will entice you to pull the trigger and grab the book.  I think you'll be surprised and pretty stunned by it.  It's so not what you expect! 

And in the spirit of Christmas — if you really can't afford the book (Amazon has it on sale) email me and I'll SEND you one.  It's meant to be a GIFT.  And I truly mean that!

Have a Merry Christmas! Stay safe!!  And thank you for the support and friendship and good times this past year!!!  

Dan Clark

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]]> http://www.DanNitroClark.com/2009/12/last-minute-christmas-gift/feed/ 2 Chuck Palahniuk’s best book list! http://www.DanNitroClark.com/2009/05/chuck-palahniuks-best-book-list/ http://www.DanNitroClark.com/2009/05/chuck-palahniuks-best-book-list/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 22:12:45 +0000 Dan http://www.DanNitroClark.com/?p=237 Fight Club, Pygmy, and Choke author extraordinaire — Chuck Palahniuk — read Gladiator – A True Story of Roids, Rage and Redemption and said:       

"If you only read one book… this year, this has to be it!" 

Here’s the full review in The Week Magazine or on the Daily Beast website.  I’m a little star struck that he’d pick Gladiator, but I honestly think the book is deserving of these kind words.  When I started writing the book — I wanted it to be an candid, frank look at a life — and have it be an illumination of the fragility of the human condition.  

I wasn’t interested in doing a tell-all.  I am interested in the art of story telling.  I’m glad I didn’t take the easy route and incriminate people — but instead bled on the page — exposed the inner machinations of my soul — and let light and life into places that were once dark.  

If you haven’t read Chuck’s books yet… you don’t know what your missing.  He’s one of the finest testosterone-driven authors we have.  The book "Fight Club" is so much better than the movie.   Go to his site now ChuckPalahnuik.net and check him out.    I’m most curious if women find him appealing?  Let me know. Also just got back from Florida.  

Did the morning show in Orlando on Fox, as well as, the morning show in Tampa on CBS.  My favorite radio station there is SportsChix on the AM Dial! Lastly, I know a lot of people have been asking for me to put up video of all the TV interviews.   It’s on my to do list when I get back from my Book Tour / Road Trip at the end of next week! 

Be Brilliant!  

Dan Clark

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