Journey

A journey into hell for worker servants everywhere, this book begins with quitet restrained observations by the anti-hero 'cal' lawson on the life of work, recalling how his first initiation as a mere 16year old as a brickies labourer soon went hurtling from one bad experience to good to bad to even worse in his biggest battle of all competing against the greedy capitalists along with governments and politicians who are forever fond of the introduced cheap laborer over & above their own nations working classes.A short story filled with good humor, a litany of great characters he meets in his journey across the land to find experience, happiness, artistic success and just a bloody good living without having to work to live like a slave with monsters. Its all fun and heartbreak and racism and more than a little love.in these tales of the working classes, one is taken upon a journey to hell and back that finalises into one scorned manifesto demanding change!A gritty, emotional, and suspenseful read and although fictionalized, it reflects on a problematic and harrowing issue across the nation. 5-stars.A real working class boy type of story! ―5stars anon.A short novella situated in and around the rather disrupted working life of one Cal. Lawson. Laced with many diverse stories both amusing and dramatic related to Cal's life as a member of the working class and finally learning the subtle art of not giving a fck. -Bob EverhartA well told series of tales, if not a little Wild & Reckless, still however an unrivalled working class story/memoir at its very core. That is undeniable -Alan Stone book reviewer for The London Times ReviewNo. Not a show-off book, nor is it a book of piety. It is however a truth-telling book filled with honesty about our contemporary work climate over the last 4-decades [at least for lower income peoples]. It also has the best of humor along with an assortment of vengence, violence, race hate, gender related issues, workplace issues, LGBT politics, class discrimination nevertheless, for all of that it is foremost a very powerful statement of rebellion against all the mainstream sheep who inhabit our globe and want a nice easy read filled with happiness & niceties [maybe that s why it has been suppressed?].This book is not one of them i.e., a nice book with simple solutions -NOT. It is no-less than just a really great 'on the road' read okay admittedly pockmarked with violence, madness, sex & laugh out loud humor all the way. Please Enjoy."Extraordinary." (The Globe and Mail)If your a god botherer, a nun, or a lefty of the #metoo feminist-queer-LGBT twitter-atti kind- DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!Journey will in all likelihood give you an attack of the passive-aggressive, Im oh so, precious of disposition, and Oh dear me books like this should really be banned, they upset people and especially progressive minded folks like us.originally published as work! work! work! then you die. [2005]