Screaming at a Wall [Paperback]

Greg Everett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2002

"An intoxicatedly sober, sarcastically sincere, self-deprecatingly self-aggrandizing, sex, drugs, rock & roll story of love, life, and passion." It all comes together here: love and hate, tears and laughter, strength and weakness, failure and success. Without convention or restraint, Everett exposes the compressed and accelerated life he's been struggling to catch up with from inside the head he can't get out of. Never compromising insight, he extracts humor from even his lowest points with unrelenting sarcasm, and with a somehow familiar inner voice, transforms a fascinatingly unusual life into a universal and inspirational story.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...as difficult to look away from as a house on fire or a twenty-car pileup on the freeway." -- Midwest Book Review, June 2002

"...highly entertaining, full of wit and dark humor." -- Hrvoje Pratezina, Littoral West, July 8, 2002

"A call to arms for our apathetic generation." -- Friction Magazine

"An uncensored and realistic glance into young life." -- Punk Planet Magazine

"Funny, outrageous, and intoxicating..." -- Phil Hall, New York Resident, June 2002

"The antithesis of current teenage pop culture." -- Clamor Magazine

"a full frontal assault on our senses that is at all times absorbing, thought-provoking, and checkered with raucous dialogue." -- Razor Magazine, June 6, 2002

This book will change the world. -- John Lier, Coalition for World Change Through Mediocre Literature

About the Author

Greg Everett founded Grundle Ink Publications conceptually in March 1999 when he began hand-binding copies of his first book, Nothing From No One, and legally in November 2000 when he finally paid for business licenses and other required paperwork.

Immediately he put out two of his books, Unforgotten, and Descent, the rewritten and retitled Nothing From No One, despite his complete lack of knowledge or talent in the arenas of editing, graphic design, or business.

Ignoring the obvious signs that his publishing venture was nothing more than financial suicide, Everett continued to publish books by Robert Schultz, Amber Decker, and himself, including the "funny, outrageous, and intoxicating" Screaming at a Wall.

Now unfortunately a resident of Chico, California, the 22 year-old is still in college with nothing to show for it, has a broken couch, would fail an FBI background check, and will soon be homeless and selling books out of a shopping cart on East Ave.

Everett runs Grundle Ink Publications, is an editor and columnist for Newtopia Magazine, and when he has nothing better to do, works on other books and screenplays.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Grundle Ink Publications (May 1, 2002)
• ISBN-10: 0970815255
• ISBN-13: 978-0970815255
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,258,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very unique..., May 15, 2003

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Steve (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Screaming at a Wall (Paperback)

This was one of the most unique and interesting books i have ever read. It follows the life of the author, Greg Everett, from childhood to present-day, and kept my interest from the first page until the last. I think that Greg's life has aspects that almost anyone can relate to, and his life's story is one that will entertain everyone who cares to read it. His life is filled with hard choices and big decisions about everything from his love life to his drug habit and, although some might say disagree, paints a relatively accurate picture of adolescent life. I would recommend this book to anyone, regardless of their age or background.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent look at 1990s youth culture, February 12, 2003

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Paul Lappen (Manchester, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Screaming at a Wall (Paperback)

This is the autobiographical story of one person's journey through 1990s youth culture.

Greg is your average resident of the Bay Area of San Francisco, more interested in drugs and the opposite sex than school. A couple of teachers along the way attempt to "reach" him, thinking that he is some sort of troubled teen, when a much better diagnosis might be "smart but bored with school."

He has a variety of jobs during this time, including spending a couple of years working behind the counter of a local bike shop. It's the sort of place where items like air guns and super glue are used in all sorts of intesesting ways. After high school, he intentionally gets out of town and enrolls in a sort of alternative college in Arizona to learn search and rescue. He leaves there after he finds that the school is the sort of place where the faculty would rather look at the goodness inside each of the students than actually teach search and rescue. During this time, Grundle Ink Publications is born, as Greg hand binds copies of his writings and hands them out to friends.

Everett eventually ends up in the college town of Chico, California, where Grundle Ink becomes more of a "full-time" job. The fact that he knows absolutely nothing about the publishing business is irrelevant; nothing like learning the hard way. He also makes several attempts to get off drugs.

Throughout this book are many relationships with the opposite sex. Some of the women Everett meets are decent, reasonable people, while others can best be described as one-dimensional idiots. He is unable to break off the relationship, so he intentionally acts like a jerk until the woman gets frustrated and does the breaking up. The conversations recounted are not literary masterpieces; sometimes, they consist of little more than "dude" and "(insert swear word)."

Because of the very large amounts of drugs and swearing in this book, it is not for the faint of heart. To attempt to understand youth culture of the 1990s, this does an infinitely better job than the various stories and films of adolescent hijinks. The writing is honest, sobering, and, in places, very funny. I loved it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, November 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Screaming at a Wall (Paperback)

I thoroughly enjoyed every page. I found the writing to be very entertaining, insightful and on that selfish level, was able to identify with most of it. It kept me totally entertained for the last week and a half. I have quite a bit more to say about it, but suffice to say, it was damn good on many levels.