The Chuck-It List

By Steven D. Bennett

Do you find yourself longing to get out of your rut and see the world? STOP!!!!
You've been infected by the latest epidemic: activity. Spurred on by inanities like 'The Bucket List,' thousands, if not dozens, of people are wasting their lives in the pursuit of fulfillment which can only be found by staying home and reading 'The Chuck-It List.'

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven D. Bennett
• Release date: Aug 19, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466081260

Steven D. Bennett

I was born in Boston and grew up in Connecticut and San Diego, which gave me a good background in both history and tanning. I have four children and six grand-children, remarkable in that I am only 35. The fact that I have been married for almost 36 years is the result of an in-utero wedding and honeymoon.I have published many short stories, poems, songs, and recently wrote and directed a musical melodrama that was performed in the San Diego area. With six books under my belt (THE PATH OF DAYS, TRACE THE DEAD EYE, HUMOR OF THE GOSPELS, HUMOR OF THE GOSPELS Daily Study, THRONE and THE CHUCK-IT LIST) I am looking for a bigger belt to stuff the seventh, which hopefully will be completed in time for the Christmas season. It is about a writer who finds to his horror that a mistake he made on page 47 completely invalidates the plot, forcing him to thus track down and kill anyone who has bought the book lest they spread the truth about his miniscule talent. It is titled DON'T READ THIS! and looks to be a best-seller, unless people take the title literally. Fortunately, nothing I write can be taken literally. It is also fortunate I did not stay with the working title: DON'T BUY THIS! Personally, I don't buy a word of it.I also have a blog, I Wandered Off the Tour: A Journey In Self-Publishing, which contains my thoughts and experiences through the tormenting process of creation.Other than writing, I like listening to the same dozen albums and re-runs of the same dozen TV shows I've heard and seen hundreds of times, to the endless delight of my wife.

Book preview

Chapter 1 – Why it's good to stay home

Wait, let's not get ahead of ourselves. This book has no chapters, only a forward and a backward and a bouncing middle, like a ping pong game with you being the ball…which is another point of this book. In the game of life, be the paddle.

Now to some lesser points, i.e., the rest of the book.

There are so many things I don’t want to do. I read about them daily in the paper or on blogs, those dangerous undertakings that people think fun. Climbing a mountain naked or swimming the English Channel naked or snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef naked. And I think to myself as I sit on my couch, naked, "Gee, that’s something I never want to