Fun Loving Finn: Books 1-4: Fun Loving Finn

By Finn Briscoe

Four Finn Briscoe Adventures

• Smuggling pot from Mexico to Massachusetts as a wild and wide-eyed Amherst College freshman from Missouri
• Three hippies are on a road trip from Missouri to Florida when their car blows up in Atlanta. They crash at the Salvation Army while looking for a $100 set of wheels, but can they keep the pet clownfish alive?
• Finn and friend get construction jobs with a bunch of prisoners on daytime work release–who corrupts who?
• Finn comes back to Missouri and gets work on the Mississippi River Finn's unique voice is full of jest, wit, and sharp humor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sugar Grove Press
• Release date: Aug 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201802080

Finn Briscoe

A reformed hippie who became an engineer and tech entrepreneur, Finn didn’t make it big. He made it bust and became a writer, starting with two series of memoir stories told in a sardonic Missouri voice: Finn on the Farm and Fun Loving Finn. He also published a punk sci-fi novel in 2020, God Is A Mortician. You shouldn’t read it if you’re religious or not a little kinky.

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Also by Finn Briscoe

Finn on the Farm

Big Bad Buck Sheep

Captain Bob Visits the Farm

Fun Loving Finn

Rookie Reefer Bandidos

Billy Jewel and The Fish and The Vietnam Lottery

Work Ethic Up In Smoke

Finn Tames the Riverboat Rat

Finn Studies Spanish

Fun Loving Finn: Books 1-4

Claudette on the Caribbean

Standalone

God is a Mortician

Watch for more at Finn Briscoe’s site.

Fun Loving Finn (books 1-4)

Finn Briscoe

Illustrated by

Andrii Dankovych

Sugar Grove Press

Four Fun Finn Frolics

Rookie Reefer Bandidos:

It is rare to discover a new, unique voice in literature. Finn Briscoe’s story Rookie Reefer Bandidos -1970 gives promise that such a writer has arrived. His picaresque story of a Missouri farm boy/Amherst student gone rogue offers both insight and humor. I look forward to discovering more of this author’s work.

--Bette Marshall, photographer and author

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Billy Jewel and the Fish and he Vietnam Lottery:

The Fish and the Vietnam Lottery is full of jest, wit and sharp humor. Finn Briscoe recreates the 70s atmosphere with a story of cars, fish and adventure in the background of the Vietnam war. Thumbs up.

--Anonymous Kindle Customer

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Work Ethic Up In Smoke:

So, how did the free-wheeling, drug dealing Finn spend his summer in 1971? Working construction of course. With work release inmates! There's got to be some stories in there, right? Yes, there are. Good solid, life lessons too.

--Jan A. Larson, Amazon reader

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Finn Tames the Riverboat Rat:

If you are up for a fresh voice, a colorful adventure, and a satisfying one-session read...you've got to try Finn Briscoe. And Finn Tames the Riverboat Rat is exactly what I've come to expect from this guy. This time our hippie friend offers us some wisdom and some laughs from his time pushing barges up and down the Mississippi. A fun read.

--Colin S, Amazon reader

Contents

Rookie Reefer Bandidos–1970

Fifty Pounds from Mexico to Massachusetts

Billy Jewell and The Fish and The Vietnam Lottery

—>with book club questions

Work Ethic Up In Smoke

Finn Tames the Riverboat Rat

Also by Finn Briscoe

Rookie Reefer Bandidos–1970

Fifty Pounds from Mexico to Massachusetts

Rookie Reefer Bandidos–1970

If I’m looking for excuses for some of my more outlandish behavior, which I never really was until I started writing this down, I’ve worked up a few good ones I think. And I need ‘em. I mean how could a good farm boy turn into a drug smuggler?

I could just leave out these chapters of my life and not tell people I broke the law, broke it big time, but that would leave out some darn good stories, adventures in stupidland that turned out more or less okay.

My defense is based on a battle with the superego, at least what I understand about superego from the only psychology course I ever took—it’s what your parents and grandparents and your aunts and uncles and preachers and teachers and other welcome and unwelcome authority figures try to instill in you about how to behave yourself in the game of life.

If you follow the guidelines of the superego, you usually don’t get in trouble. But maybe you won’t have all that much fun, maybe yes, maybe no, but it’s easier to experience pleasure if you ignore the superego at crucial moments when the id comes calling. It’s the id, that unruly god Bacchus rocking and rolling through moments of passion and pleasure, that might get you into trouble, but sometimes just makes it impossible to wipe the smile off your face.

Adolescent rebellion almost always pushes a new generation to question the previous one, but that relationship was stretched to the breaking point in the 1960s and ‘70s. The older generation was willing to send the younger one off to die in the most callous and useless way in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and its credibility was in the drink, totally.

The song at Woodstock by Country Joe and the Fish tells it as well as anybody has before or since,

"Now it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?

Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn, next stop is Vietnam!

And it’s