Dreamer of Dreams [Paperback]

Robert H. Rimmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 30, 1998

A former porn producer creates a new franchised religion called WONDERING with nationwide churches called Love Dromes in which, along with new approaches to God, ministers offer new group marriage committments between monogamous couples. Why did every major publisher in the United States refuse to read or publish this very controversial novel written by Robert Rimmer? Three million readers of The Harrad Experiment will love this one.

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About the Author

In the sixties and early seventies The Harrad Experiment and Proposition 31 became watchwords for the "hippie generation". As millions of students on campuses across the country read and talked about his books, little did they know, their hero was well past thirty.Bob started writing early in life. As a high school student in Massachusetts in the 1930s, he wrote articles for, as well as helped print and distribute, a small local magazine entitled Boy's Pal. He graduated from Bates College with a multi-discipline degree in English, Psychology and Philosophy and later obtained an MBA from Harvard. His life has been an eventful one. His military service during and after World War II included both at-home and overseas assignments. After his enlistment was up, Rimmer returned to the US and took a position in the family printing business. He spent the next twenty-five years of his life working, raising a family, and collecting his life experiences and formulating them into what would later become events and characters in his many novels.His first two novels, The Rebellion of Yale Marratt and That Girl from Boston, were written before 1960 and were considered much too controversial to publish. However, after years of mail-order sales through a small publisher in California, Rimmer's The Harrad Experiment was published by Bantam in 1967 and was finally available to a wide audience. Within a year over a million copies had been sold. More novels followed, including Proposition 31. All of these novels explored alternatives to traditional relationships and sexuality, subjects very much at the forefront of the public's interest in the 1970's. Now in his eighties, Bob Rimmer, always in the vanguard in his advocacy of alternatives to the traditional monogamous relationship, becomes one of the first authors to recognize the potential of the Internet to bring his books to millions of new readers. With fourteen novels to his credit and still going strong, this author has not only bro

Product Details

• Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: IUniverse (December 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583481044
• ISBN-13: 978-1583481042
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,558,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars For Rimmer completists only, March 15, 1999

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Mark J Dulcey "Pryder mab Aurddolen" (Dorchester, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dreamer of Dreams (Paperback)

Bob Rimmer covers a lot of his familiar territory here: non-monogamous love and sex-positive religion. The problem is that he has been there before, more effectively, in his other books.

The religion thing has been done in Love Me Tomorrow. One of the main plot elements, being kidnapped in a boat, appeared many years ago in That Girl From Boston. And non-monogamy has a major role in just about everything Bob Rimmer has ever written.

In addition, Dreamer of Dreams suffers from very careless proofreading. Misspelled words and incorrect punctuation abound. It's not bad enough to make it impossible to follow the story, but it is distracting.

If you're new to Bob Rimmer's writing, this isn't the place to start. Pick up The Harrad Experiment, Proposition 31, or Thursday, My Love (all now in print again) instead.

2 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Legendary Countercultural Twit Tries to Create New Religion!, May 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dreamer of Dreams (Paperback)

This is yet another book that deserves no stars at all. Robert Rimmer is a well-known twit and advocate of "free love" and other views and "values" best left in the sixties--now apparently he's decided to found a pseudo-religion. The result is the same as always--worship of the self and rampant promiscuity. Anyone who's read any of Rimmer's other books will know that he loves to "justify" a lack of especial love for anyone as being "love for everyone." While a few saintly people in various religious traditions are indeed capable of loving everyone and everything, well and truly, most people are not capable of this and should concentrate on loving their own as well as possible. Followers of Rimmer's idiotic pseudo-creed love only themselves, and treat others as simply objects for their own gratification.