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Head West with Broken Neck, Vol. 3 of THE WORLD IS MY ASHTRAY, reconnects readers to P.H. Mountain's hilarious, fast-paced world of questionable decisions gone horribly right. Then predictably wrong. And then, somehow, surprisingly right again. Paul and Lonnie remain holed up in the mountain ghost town of Eldora, Colorado, where Paul completes his first novel with the indispensable assistance of acid, speed, and rivers of Budweiser. Now a dangerously legal twenty-one-year-old man, he tests the patience of every barstool and bartender within twenty-five miles-finding all the pleasure and pain the bottle promises. ""Unless the Hindus were right, I'd never died before, and the Hindus couldn't possibly be right, could they? Those dudes f**king starved as perfectly edible cows strolled past, flaunting their exalted bovine existence with each steaming cow patty they dumped on Gandhi Plaza. Still, pain this overwhelming implied death, didn't it?"" With a few extra bucks in their pockets, Paul, Lonnie, and the dogs take off on a wanderlust road trip in the battered Vanship Econoline, crisscrossing the bohemian American West in search of those final reckless days of youth. But the slow, relentless drip of time presents challenges that weed and whiskey can no longer solve. As adulthood looms, Paul and Lonnie are forced to confront hard truths-about themselves, each other, and the inevitable future. Spontaneous travel, excruciating pain, and bursts of hilarity punctuate this next chapter in P.H. Mountain's darkly funny coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 90s just before the tech revolution, Head West with Broken Neck is a full embrace of reckless living, an unapologetic testament to the wild beauty of attacking life with the throttle open and arms spread wide. ""I collapsed backward, pulling Lonnie on top of my chest. We rolled around the bed, clutched each other spastically, howled like old beat poets in old bars in old 'Frisco town. I reached around and extracted the last vestiges of orgasm from her soul, hoping we could just die, just f**king croak right then and there, because nothing would ever get much better or mean much more.""

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PRAISE FOR P.H. MOUNTAIN'S THE WORLD IS MY ASHTRAY SERIES ""Strangely familiar and recklessly hysterical... "" - Reedsy Reviews ""An unflinching look at a young American man out of control in a now by-gone era... "" - BookLife Reviews ""I often found myself laughing out loud, although some of the humor was so shocking, I was almost glad that there was nobody else around to see what I was laughing about."" - Verified Reader Review ""... it's impossible to deny [P.H. Mountain's] magnetic storytelling, his vibrant spirit, and the reckless abandon with which he presents this raucous memoir."" - Indies Today ""... supremely creative as well as totally engrossing. Overall, this is an excellent read for those who enjoy a good, hard, and dirty literary romp."" - Readers' Favorite ""I'm a bedtime reader. Try to get in a chapter before I fall asleep. I enjoyed this book so much that I found myself looking forward to the end of the day so I could get back to it."" - Verified Reader Review ""The honesty of the story creates a vivid tale of a late-20th-century journey West... "" - Kirkus Reviews ""... as a chronicle of an ill-spent youth well-spent in Boulder, Colorado, it testifies to its author's ample wit, insight, and way with words. Those who appreciate all three will be left anticipating, eagerly, the next installment in Mountain's projected series of memoirs."" - Indie Reader ""I'm so smitten, I'm reading paragraphs to my husband because I can't help myself."" - Verified Reader Review ""P. H. Mountain has crafted a superb memoir that grips you from the opening page and immediately lets you know that you're in for a wild ride."" - Readers' Favorite

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