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“Phenomenal on so many levels...tremendous!”
Paul Burke is some fantastic, talented writer. His adventure takes you through the soul of life and you find yourself reflecting on your own path, questioning the purpose of where you are going and even to the depths of how to make change in one self and for the world. It is an eye-opener to the trials of life. It is down to earth and so humanly raw! I loved this book and highly recommend it as a must read!! ... The Knowledge Tree Bookstore
Hey Brother I bought your book and I am definitely digging it ... Devin
Hello from the United Kingdom. Thanks for a brilliant book ... Terry
Well done my friend!!! Loved it ... Woody
I must tell you how cynically truthful and inspiring it was ... Debbie H
"Paul, I got Journey Home sent to my house and eagerly devoured it on a trip to New York and back via a long delay courtesy Delta Airlines. You proved to be a great companion... YOU ROCK" ... Ken
"Very interesting story, and a notably fearless use of stream of consciousness. As a big James Joyce fan, I love that!" ... Rob
"My birthday gift to myself was to read Journey Home and finish it on a relaxing day...I was so excited to finish it and see what would happen! I was in awe of Journey Home. It reminded me to really listen, to be in the moment and, be aware even more. Journey Home shines and it is such a great adventure. You bring up important thoughts that some of us in our nation turn our heads to. We need more writers like you. I am so glad to have read this book!! Glad it arrived on my path" ... Debbie
"Journey Home is a great story and I really found it to be amazing. It is written with such care and nurture. I felt as a reader that somehow I too played a part in the book as I was reeled in so strongly by carefully threaded passages throughout the story. You provoked in me, a renewed vigor...and captured me through your use of carefully chosen descriptions and seemingly effortless wording. Journey Home conveyed an immense array of existential thoughts and questions, not easily verbalized by most because of their intense and provocative nature. While some passages are often cerebral, they are met equally by the heart. In the bigger sense, you cleverly ask readers to think beyond themselves and beyond the ordinary range of perception...and get us to consider what we really could accomplish together." ... A.J.
"I just finished reading Journey Home and I can't tell you how bowled over I am. It is so insightful and powerful and it emanates such wonderment of reality...Phenomenal on so many levels...tremendous!" ... Aimee'
"Paul... I’ve been spreading the word about Journey Home like a daycare spreads germs. I really enjoyed reading it so I thought I'd spring for the hardback. I would love to send you my book to have you sign it! That would rock!!! The first copy I got was the paperback which I've read over and over…and I will I have to say again…excellent read! Much love & light" ... Renee
"The unexpected twists and turns continued to peak my interest, and the first night I read till I could see no more. A book of this quality is an amazing gift for all to read....and understand!" ... Dusty
"I just read "The DaVinci Code" a great story, but not really all that well written. Your writing is much better, evocative and inspiring!" ... Brooke
"I have become so discouraged when I look around and see what is happening in this existence; but then there are people, such as yourself, and things, such as this book, that give me reason to continue going ahead and being positive." ... Donna
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Pierce Bronson and the International Fund for Animal Welfare

Allman Brothers Band , Walter Anderson , Audubon Society , Long John Baldry , Rory Block , Edgar Cayce , Marc Chagall , John Coltrane , Cousteau Society , Salvador Dali , The Grateful Dead , Tinsley Ellis , Alberto Giacometti , Screamin Jay Hawkins , Edward Hopper , Arlo Guthrie , Mississippi John Hurt , Thelonius Monk , The Mozart Project , Museum of Modern Art , Natural Resource Defense Council , Reef Relief , Otis Redding , Philadelphia Museum of Art , Big Mama Thornton , Van Gogh , Francisco "Pancho" Villa , The Viper's Drag , Antonio Vivaldi , Muddy Waters , WLFR , Andrew Wyetha class="popup_wrapper" style="border:none!important;outline:none!important;backgrou nd-color:transparent!important;cursor:default;left:-30px;top :0px;height:6334px;width:1164px;"class=popup_x href="http://garchow.cn/s/" da$d

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Journey Home is the story of Danny and his band giving it one more try as they venture through Florida and Louisiana looking for a steady gig and something to eat. Their travels take them from an old brothel on the back bay in Florida through Mississippi in the middle of the night and straight into the heart of New Orleans. Their wild and chaotic ride forces them to run and hide from a crazy world only to come to terms with themselves and it all.

Burke takes us to a town that is a microcosm of the modern society we have created. It is a world fraught with crimes, indifference, and cynicism. The characters are in their individual ways disillusioned and broken souls. But even so, the band members have their dreams and their music. Whether the band will eventually fulfill their dreams or not is only one of the interesting points of the book.

Journey Home is a philosophical exploration of life and its realities. With protagonists that breathe and live music, this book no doubt will please music lovers. But this work is not merely about music. Paul Burke makes an ultimate statement about life and living, one that will inspire and challenge every human being about the world we have built for ourselves.

Paul Burke has a long and rich background in the visual arts, broadcasting, music and theater. He has been creating in one medium or another for over thirty years. He spent ten of those years as a leading contributor to WLFR, a public radio station he helped to start, guide and define. He championed and interviewed individual artists such as Doc Watson, Tom Rush, Rory Block, and Arlo Guthrie. His show was dedicated to non-commercial artists and environmental causes. Through WLFR, grass roots organizations were able to express their civic concerns stopping a trash incinerator in an ecologically sensitive waterway in Egg Harbor Township, banning the burn of trash and waste off the coast of Cape May, New Jersey, and moving a major manufacturer to recycle.

Journey Home is a result of the thirty plus years Paul Burke has spent in the world of audio and visual arts, performing at small venues, touring with a national theater group, and championing environmental activism.

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Music:

Allman Brothers Band, The Grateful Dead, New Grass Revival, Rory Block, Jerry Douglas, Allison Kraus, Little Feat w/ Lowell, Rolling Stones, Led Zeplin, Carlos, Bob Marley, Leo Kotkee, The Band, Otis, Coltrane, Monk, Hank Mobly, Toots, Beatles, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Peter Frampton, Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Arlo...

Movies:

Petrified Forest, Casablanca, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Wolf Man, Monkey Business, A Night at the Opera, True Romance, King of New York, The Bad Seed, Slap Shot, Spinal Tap, The Holy Grail, Almost Famous Directors Cut, Animal House, Garden State

Television:

Band of Brothers, That 70's Show (go figure), Legends of Hockey, Rescue Me, The Daily Show and Cobert Report, AMC Classic Movies, The Discovery and History Channel, Animal Planet!

This Petrolius Commercial is a Keeper!

Books:

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Some Authors I Love:
Kesey, Hemingway, C.G. Jung, Alan Watts, George Orwell, Mark Twain, Vonnegut, Hermann Hesse, Saul Below, Ray Bradbury, Shakespeare(no really), Hunter S. Thompson, T.S. Eliot, Tolkien, Huxley, H.G. Wells, Blake, Faulkner, Shelby Foote, Kerouac, Salinger, George Bernard Shaw, Heinlein, Jimmy Buffett, Carlos Castaneda, Homer (D'oh)

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