Intellectual without being pedantic, philosophical without being ponderous, playful without being precious, confessional without being self-indulgent, moving, meditative, inspiring, creative, original as hell, really funny, sometimes sad, perspective-changing, honest, wonderfully provocative. Also, fantastic conceptually. The Adventures of Ordinary Man! is a delightful, disarming, deeply-felt journey into the heart of the everyday existence we dream of transending. Ian Marshall shows us how that fantasy of transcendence can stand between us and the wisdom necessary to embrace the unseen richness of our daily lives. I've never read anything like The Adventures of Ordinary Man!, and I'm completely smitten. The liberating epiphany produced by this remarkable book is the extraordinary redemptiveness of Ordinary Man's ordinariness and, by extension, The Reader's ordinariness as well. --Michael P. Branch, author of On the Trail of the Jackalope and How to Cuss in Western Sauntering through life like Thoreau on holiday, Ian Marshall's Ordinary Man can bend syntax with his bare hands and, disguised as a mild-mannered English professor, fights a never-ending battle for truth, gentleness, and the Middle Way.

These charming stories will convince you that Clark Kent, not the Man of Steel, is the true hero. --John Tallmadge, author of Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher's Path and The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City.