Dreamseller

Dreamseller
by Brandon Novak

Dreamseller
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Author: Brandon Novak
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-01
ISBN: 0806530049
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Citadel
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  • ISBN13: 9780806530048
  • Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Dreamseller

Book Review: "memento mori" my ass.-this book is not meant for a writers critique.
Summary: 5 Stars

This should be on every high school read list with a book report for the parents, friends and relatives. This book is very, very, very, very much of an adult read BUT get over it.

This is not a reminder of death but of a future.

If you want to know what an enabler is, what drugs meant, what they promote and weaken, then this is the one.

I saw this kid on the Howard Stern Show and what he was allowed to do. This book is not an Artie Lang feel sorry book. It is a warning and telling of what one could be, or is, for life and knows it.

I don't think Brandon wants us to feel sorry but I think he wants to share and show what futures could bring (Decisions today can influence tomorrow) and he doesn't like it.

It's worth the $12 or get a library card.

Brandon, I thank




Summary of Dreamseller

My Dream Life


Deep down inside I knew that by virtue of the life I had been leading, jail was inevitable and a debt long overdue. But the most disheartening part of this ordeal occurred as the police led me into Central Booking. I had a clear view of the nearby skate park called the Brooklyn Banks, a famous skate spot that I had been shredding since I was eight years old. I could almost see a young version of myself, laughing with my friends, learning new tricks, skating under the warm evening sun.

"As a skateboarder, I was fixated on testing my boundaries, but this was my way of fooling myself into feeling in control. Soon it grew to consume me."


At only twenty-two, Brandon Novak had accomplished more than most people dream of in a lifetime. By the age of fourteen, he had been discovered by legendary skateboarders Tony Hawk and Bucky Lasek, and signed on to skate professionally. By eighteen, he had traveled the world, signed autographs for thousands of fans, won big-time sponsorships, and had his photo plastered all over the skate magazines.

"I was a dreamseller. I sold those who loved me their dream that I was a recovering addict. I gained their trust, and betrayed them in order to get my precious next fix."


Yet as swiftly as his career peaked, it crashed, brought down by heroine, a force far more powerful than his greatest ambitions. One day he had it all, the next he was living in an abandoned garage, begging for spare change on the street and bathing in gas station restrooms. Brandon now lived for one thing only his next fix.

"Where once I had the world in my hand, I now had nothing but a distorted, twisted version of what I had once been."

Brandon probably would have died a junkie's death if not for his closest friend, MTV and Jackass star, and music video director Bam Margera, who refused to give up on the dreamseller. Bam invited Brandon into his home and gave him cameos in the CKY videos, his independent films Haggard and Minghags, his hit MTV shows Viva La Bam and Bam's Unholy Union, and the hit films Jackass Number Two and Jackass 2.5. Eventually, Bam convinced Brandon to write the powerful and shocking story of how his addiction destroyed his skateboarding career a story soon to be a major motion picture starring Bam Margera as Brandon Novak, the Dreamseller.


Vivid, harrowing and heartfelt, Brandon s story is a riveting and unforgettable journey from a dream life to a nightmare existence, and ultimately to waking up before it's too late.

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