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For me, the self-obsessed monologue of Impostor was more a fascinating romp through fictive and cinematic space than a personal history of the author. Literary analogues might include Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author, Beckett (Krapp's Last Tape), Hesse (Steppenwolfe), Pynchon (V) and various texts on Advaita. I don't know where to begin ennumerating the movies referenced since the text, crafted into a multifaceted script, is itself both original and allusive cinema, most appropriately leavened with slapstick. Brilliantly articulated throughout, this absurd, disorienting, and thereby enlightening evocation of a "Hollywood" persona in process of disintegration, detachment, and liberation is a huge artistic and spiritual achievement. Though the visuals may in fact be best through writing, Hollywood Impostor will make an arresting film.
~Michael Peter Cain


Ambitious, outrageous, revealing, frustrating, repetitious, funny, no make that f***ng hilarious at times, playful, sad, annoying, 100 pages too long, poorly paced, self-indulgent, quirky, tricky, goofy, stupid, smart, silly, obvious, passionate, surprising, like a puppy wanting to go chase the ball over and over again--it will exhaust you... continue reading review
~Christopher J. Jarmick


There are by now hundreds, if not thousands, of reviews of IMPOSTER, by Richard Beymer, but I find just cause to add yet another. I do not feel that my predecessors have taken the book seriously enough. It is not just "powerful and relevant to nothing." It is powerful and relevant to the core problems of living: "Who Am I? Why am I here? How do I decide what to do with my life? And one of the preposterous answers passed down through the schools of hidden wisdom through the ages is: live in the I AM. Now the reader can say the author in using his mock-heroic character, the immortal George Oops, who plays all the key roles in the book, is mocking the I AM too, but if so, he mocks it as he accepts it....
So, though this is one of the funniest books I've ever read, it is also one of the most serious. It is a great help to anyone on a spiritual quest, and a rare gem in the cluttered fields of literature. If the name Richard Beymer, who played down his movie career, is what brought you to this book, fine. But the fact that it's a great book is not that Richard Beymer wrote it. IMPOSTER is a great book on its own, and it would be even if the author were anonymous... continue reading review
~Michael Creedon


From reading Beymer's novel, not sure if he has gone entirely mad. For all the time he turned his camera on others now he has turned it on himself...just not quite in focus, though... Just enough craziness and illusion to keep one wondering.....so many questions....but only obscure answers, riddles and just enough lightness of being to give one breath......such a delightful sense of humour.....saves Beymer in the end. This novel affected me greatly. I was totally exhausted by it. Not so sure if we should worry about Beymer's mental state or not.
~Liana Kelley


You know that feeling you get when you take a nap in the afternoon only to wake up near dusk thinking it's the morning? Well, combine that with listening to Magical Mystery Tour under a blacklight and you might begin to get an inkling of what's in store for you with 'Impostor'!... continue reading review
~M.P. Cronin


In Richard's exploration of self, I was given a rare glimpse into an inner sanctum which explores the question, "What am I doing here in this Madhouse ... Again?", and there is not one iota of self-pity or arrogance to be found. I don't think the obsession with taping conversations or videotaping people in his attempt to clarify his own existence was born out of maliciousness (acts you will witness should you decide to take this journey). Not all obsessions are vindictive, screwed-up, or evil, even though in the reading you might be given the impression he thinks they are, or might be. The book simply is what it is: obscenely blunt, unutterably sad, wildly imaginative, artistically sensitive, fiercely intelligent, often painfully humorous ... and just painful, mixed up in a blendered psychedelic dreamscape of ever-shifting and jarring perceptions and points of view. Characters are not who they seem to be, I was in and out of recognizable time and space; but what it most felt like was Alice down the Rabbit Hole. And this is all quite good, actually. I believe it's a disorientation the author intends the reader to have: "Now you see George (or, Richard?) now you don't." ... continue reading review
~Tonya Jarrett


"We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful who we pretend we are... Kurt Vonnegut
I think the first step is to be aware that we are pretending to be other than what we are..
Richard Beymer, AKA George, has not only been aware of it, he's been afraid of it, transcended it, made a game of it, and turned it into "pure art" in his book "Imposter." I went on that jouney as I read it from cover to cover in one evening. The "witness" in me was reawakened. I'm aware of when I'm not "BEING," and pretending has no power now.
~Tasha Schaal