How to Live Forever

Barry Burnett

Jan 2011 · How To Live Forever

About this ebook

Meet David Black, a young family doc whose solo practice has spectacularly tanked. So has his marriage; the two are not unrelated. His best friend, Oz, wants him to reinvent himself, offering their fellow Boulderites everything they need to live forever (or at least long enough for Oz to profit and retire). David balks. At first.What follows is a romp of a read, a comedy with heart - from the characters who staff the new clinic to pursuit by pheromone-crazed wildlife, a real live cliff-hanger, and the love that, in the end, might just save him. Visit the exotic New-Age mecca of Boulder, Colorado, and get to know--David, hapless idealist and reluctant hero,Junie Blanche, Ph.D. candidate and New Orleans immigrant,Oz Garcia, entrepreneur and Master of Bad Habits,Shriana, organic beauty and trophy wife aspirant,Don Gilmore, hypochondriac and hemp magnate,Cyrus P. Flint, slowly expiring longevity scientist,Miss Paula and Dr. Biggs, fearsomely muscular HGH hawkers,Beatriz Hanacanahuolipalipalulu, Kava Kava smuggler......and, of course, the happy but complicated staff of the Forever Clinic:Dr. Quinn Quinn, former health guru and cross-dressing fugitive,Nancy Ouvenstrasser, lonely masseuse and closet intellectual,Adeline and Thomas Thinna, starving diet & fitness pros,and Howie Krishna, Yogitation instructor and actual Real Thing.(Warning: while many local statutes prohibit the sale of How To Live Forever as a wellness and longevity guide, there remains a modest danger that the reader might inadvertently absorb one if not more aspects of its radically nonradical 'Reasonable Approach to Semi-Optimal Health'.)

Ratings and reviews

The narrative of this book takes forever to get going and then never seems to go anywhere, and is interspersed with boring medical tangents which completely distract from the story, as though the author needs his readers to know and appreciate that he is a qualified doctor. The characters are all one-dimensional and completely unbelievable, and the entire thing is riddled with grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and typos, as though typed once and never proof-read. Even though it's free to download, I would not recommend that anybody waste their time.

I must not have paid attention to the subtitle when I downloaded How To Live Forever: I thought it was a longevity guide, and just that. Luckily, I was wrong. While I’m sure I soaked up some advice, it was woven into a comic adventure that’s got to be nine-tenths of the book. Picture an idealistic young doctor, down on his luck, who gets talked into running a very-much-for-profit longevity center, the Forever Clinic. As another reviewer noted, everything that can go wrong, does. Outrageous, ribald, occasionally thrilling and ultimately romantic, it lsid out the good choices but seemed more driven by the virtue of the bad ones, a rich life full of near-disastrous mistakes and last-minute saves. Health, sex, mayhem, and True Love—in Boulder, Colorado. Kath Biesadecki

I agree with a previous reviewer that the plot takes a while to draw you in, but once it did it was hard to put down! I found myself warming to the characters and laughing out loud as the book became increasingly enjoyable.