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| Vernon Rust |
There are writers, and then there are storytellers. Vernon Rust KNOWS how to tell a story, and
his memoire, Fake News is filled with them. Good
stories, and true:
"WHEN I WOKE UP IN HOSPITAL, I COULD'NT move my arms or
legs. Oh, I wasn't paralyzed or anything
. . . I was in four point restraints flat to the bed on my back.
OBVIOUSLY a victim of mistaken insanity...as this only
happens to crazy people, and after all, I, Vernon Rust of mediocre and fleeting
songwriter fame, was a lot of things...but insane?
Insane? Mentally incompetent? Honestly?
That's just CRAZY talk! (however, several Doctors and judges
seemed convinced enough otherwise to keep me a month or so, ...just to make
sure)"
When a book starts like that, I've just GOT to read on. And I did, almost in one sitting.
I discovered Vernon on a friend's Facebook page. He was telling one of his impossibly good
stories. So I started following him, and
was lucky enough to score a reader's copy of his book. His stories are gritty and funny, and Rust
makes no attempt to whitewash his past, which is punctuated with abusive
fathers, illicit drugs, country music stars, rock-and-roll, creative genius,
true love, financial highs and lows that are as high and as low as you can get.
Through it all, Rust maintains an optimism, a sense of humor
and the wisdom that only one who has lived it all can have. Rust is a country-music songwriter, and this book is a country-music masterpiece. I recommend this book unreservedly. Read it.
You’ll like it. I promise. To purchase Fake News, go here.
To hear Vernon perform his songs, go here.
