Some Die Mad
Some Die Mad

Author: Edward Beardshear

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-05-28

Total Pages: 619

ISBN-13: 1469798719

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Young Malcolm Ward's father dies and he is betrayed into Mid-State Hospital by a cruel and greedy uncle. Malcolm is imprisoned on the Acute Violent and Forensic Ward where he discovers both art and the art of survival. Later, in the general hospital population, he fights to save a pretty young lady patient in his group therapy from a psychotic superintendent. This activates a system already clearly out to kill him. After he is blitzed by a series of unneeded shock treatments and sent to a back ward to die, he slowly recovers by painting and crafting sculpture. He falls in love with a devoted occupational therapist who reciprocates. And to make himself whole for her he escapes the hospital to find a new and truer life in a blazing finale of enlightened madness in New York's Greenwich Village.

Islands in Time
Islands in Time

Author: Perry Aayr

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0595244742

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Part IV of Some Die Mad, Islands In Time, is a love story between Malcolm Ward and Marlene Weston wherein the love of a good woman lures a man from psychosis to a dazzling conclusion seldom seen in literature.

The Place To Wait
The Place To Wait

Author: Perry Aayr

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2002-10-08

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1469767783

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The Some Die Mad quatrain continues as Malcolm Ward and his fellow pilot group therapy patients at Mid-State Hospital fight not only their own severe and probably fatal flaws but also try to topple a megalomaniacal superintendent and a system literally out to remove them permanently.

Gandy Dancing
Gandy Dancing

Author: Perry Aayr

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 059524825X

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Gandy Dancing begins one of the more remarkable sagas of the last fifty years, the story of Malcolm Ward and his betrayal into the feared and violent world of the 1950's Insane Asylum when Thorozine was only an experiment and attendants routinely walked in pairs and laced up hobnail boots. Whoever would have thought One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was really the lighthearted version. Written by a man who was there and who still survived.

Viagro Blue
Viagro Blue

Author: Perry Aayr

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2002-10-06

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1469753790

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Thirty years before Viagra, 44288, An Ohio Mental Patient and author of the amazing Quatrain, Some Die Mad, conceives of Viagro, a pill to help male erections which goes terribly wrong and wrecks (creates?) the life of a New York insurance company actuary called Millard Fillmore. We all never got to see Vincent Van Gogh pen some cartoons for the New Yorker but this is probably the next best thing. Prepare to fall off your sofa.

Bronson 2 - More Porridge Than Goldilocks
Bronson 2 - More Porridge Than Goldilocks

Author: Charles Bronson

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2009-12-14

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1782192530

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Charles Bronson is the most feared and most notorious convict in the prison system. Renowned for his serial hostage-taking and his rooftop sieges, he is a legend in his own lifetime. The recent film of his life was a critically acclaimed, box-office hit. Yet he is a man of great warmth and humour; a man of huge artistic talent who exhibits his drawings around the country; a man with an overpowering urge not to let the system get him down. More Porridge Than Goldilocks is a crazy look into the mind of a true individual.