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For Monks Only
"You" travel to Southeast Asia in search of your girlfriend who is having bouts of smuttiness. You want to rescue her and re-unite with her. Chiaia makes the dialogue sizzle in this tale of travel and love that contains fragmented tales of travel and love. Before you find her you're going to find out things normally reserved for monks only.
Words: 6,330. "For Monks Only" is in the uncharted banana republic between the well-traveled countries of Short Story and Novella.
"Chiaia is a unique, trip-hoppy, visionary of language"
Lo Galluccio, author
Words: 6,330. "For Monks Only" is in the uncharted banana republic between the well-traveled countries of Short Story and Novella.
"Chiaia is a unique, trip-hoppy, visionary of language"
Lo Galluccio, author
20 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 10, 2013
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About the author
Ralph-Michael Chiaia
5 books8 followersPrevious to running a bar in Seoul I was a florist, a barista, and a journalist.
You can find out more about me at www.rmchiaia.com or at my blog www.ralphadelic.blogspot.com
You can find out more about me at www.rmchiaia.com or at my blog www.ralphadelic.blogspot.com
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
June 10, 2013
My fucking god this is brilliant. That sounds so banal. I suck at blurbs.
Fuck.
"This love story drew me in immediately with its detailed viscera. I
trust this voice because it reeks with reality. Life really fucking lived, love really fucking felt. Singular and vital and never boring."
Fuck.
"This love story drew me in immediately with its detailed viscera. I
trust this voice because it reeks with reality. Life really fucking lived, love really fucking felt. Singular and vital and never boring."
February 17, 2014
This book is wonderful. It's like a short version of Soul Mountain. It's a 2nd person journey where you try to avoid your stale life and go on an adventure. Along the way, you're trying to reconnect with your ex-girlfriend, you learn a ton of lessons as your tale weaves together with the tales told to you until you get a lesson reserved for monks only. This book is brilliant. Great dialogue, great description, and unique.
June 12, 2013
Eat pray love
In For Monks Only by Ralph-Michael Chiaia, here is this man in a dark room, attached himself to the wall holding his cellphone like a jackass, lost in transmission. He wants to find his love and he wants to get out of this moldy life. So he packs to head for the adventure. This sounds quite familiar to the movie but it's a different story better told.
This book is filled with a man's unsettling ego and sorrow of being, and they are all fogged in the blue water and smelly streets of Southeast Asia. The story arc resonates a graph line drawn from (0,0) to (0,16) with some little lumps in the middle that might have held Vonnegut's interest. Of course AND surprisingly, the author managed to put together his genius words and surrealistic creativity at pen. Throughout the story I couldn't help but to truly feel for the protagonist even though he is kind of a four-dimensional. In the end, this book has some perspectives on how you look at life and how to live on.
In For Monks Only by Ralph-Michael Chiaia, here is this man in a dark room, attached himself to the wall holding his cellphone like a jackass, lost in transmission. He wants to find his love and he wants to get out of this moldy life. So he packs to head for the adventure. This sounds quite familiar to the movie but it's a different story better told.
This book is filled with a man's unsettling ego and sorrow of being, and they are all fogged in the blue water and smelly streets of Southeast Asia. The story arc resonates a graph line drawn from (0,0) to (0,16) with some little lumps in the middle that might have held Vonnegut's interest. Of course AND surprisingly, the author managed to put together his genius words and surrealistic creativity at pen. Throughout the story I couldn't help but to truly feel for the protagonist even though he is kind of a four-dimensional. In the end, this book has some perspectives on how you look at life and how to live on.
February 23, 2014
The book was a very good story.
With just a few more pages over 20 author Chiaia wrote the book, which is a fast read and very emotional.
The last line is really witty. It reminded me of The Crying of Lot 49.
With just a few more pages over 20 author Chiaia wrote the book, which is a fast read and very emotional.
The last line is really witty. It reminded me of The Crying of Lot 49.
August 12, 2014
This book grabbed me from page one and wouldn't let go until the very end. Having lived in Asia for the past 25 years, this book resonated strongly for me on a number of levels. The language and imagery in this book is honest, gritty, and visceral. If you have every lived or traveled in Asia for any length of time, this book will also strike an emotional chord or two inside of you. If you haven't, take a journey with Mr. Chiaia. You won't be disappointed.
Jeffrey Miller,
Waking Up in the Land of the Morning Calm
Jeffrey Miller,
Waking Up in the Land of the Morning Calm
July 25, 2016
For Monks Only is an unique novel with . The plot is unique, imaginative and the characters are realistic with flow of story fast yet balanced. The book will surely keep you interested. It is a good book for everyone, I'd definitely recommend it.
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