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- Sales Rank: #11466779 in Books
- Published on: 2012-06-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .51" w x 5.00" l, .51 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 204 pages
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"Unconventional...creative."�-D. Roberts, Top 1,000 Amazon Reviewer, Vine Voice
"Eclectic."�-Brett H "pentangle" Top 500 Amazon Reviewer
"Engrossing."�-Grady Harp, Top 50 Amazon Reviewer, Hall of Fame Reviewer, Vine Voice
"A truly unique book."�-Richard S. Friedman, Top Amazon Reviewer
"Interesting."�-Wogan, Top 500 Amazon Reviewer
From the Author
Thanks for your interest in my work.
About the Author
Raeden Zen is a speculative and supernatural fiction author. When he isn't writing, you can find him hanging out with his family and friends, reading, eating exotic foods, enjoying movies, swimming, procrastinating with social media, or watching sports. He lives in New York City.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
WALL STREET meets ANIMAL HOUSE??
By D. Roberts
This is an unconventional and one could argue creative novel by an author who is attempting to stake out new literary territory. The presentation is somewhat Faulkneresque as the story is told from the point of view of 2 friends (Chason Vale and Julian Flexon). The narrative is curious in that it stretches in time mostly from the late 1990s to 2025-2030. There are flashes of what goes on in different time segments between past & future, but the bulk of the action takes place within those two timeframes.
The main character is a Gordon Gekko type of a fellow (Chason Vale). He is smug and not always altogether likeable ~ and not just because of his greed. His "angle" is that he gets his mistress, Felicia, to sleep with CEO types so he can get the goods on insider trading deals. Of course, he is married, so he has a tough time separating business from his personal life.
I will admit that some of the dissertations in the book that dwelled on economic theory and the vicissitudes of the stock market made my eyes glaze over. The lengthy explanations did render an authenticity to the book (for, after all, Vale is supposed to be an economic Richard Feynman) but it's not the type of thing I'm used to reading. People who are heavy investors & have a great interest in Wall Street will likely enjoy these sections far more than myself.
The other major influence on Vale's life, aside from investments, is his alma mater. It's a fictional school called Zeno State. The milieu of the campus life as well as a great many incidents in the book bear a striking resemblance to the recent goings-on at Pennsylvania State University.
One of the most interesting aspects of the book is that it takes some nascent present day technologies & describes them as they become fully functional in the future. The most salient of these would be robotic drivers; as I'm writing this review they're actually testing them on the highways in Nevada.
As I indicated in my title line, this book ultimately struck me as something of a cross between Wall Street and National Lampoon's Animal House (Full Screen Double Secret Probation Edition). It seamlessly goes from party-hardy football tailgaiting & frat house bonanzas to the high risk / high reward world of high-roller investments. If that sounds like story that's worth exploring, then this book is for you!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Intriguing read
By Amanda R
This book was given to me by the author but the opinions are my own.
Flexon Vale does a nice job of combining an altered past/future of our own society. Government and big business are corrupt and continue in that direction as young Vale recounts his college experiences and how they brought him to be one of the wealthiest men in the world. The recounting of his alma maters difficulties a thinly veiled reflection of our own times...
The main character has a passion for finance that is revealed with in depth passages regarding finance and the world markets. I must say I lost interest in these parts. I just wanted to find out what Vale did not the why's and wherefore's of his financial philosophy. But it was part of the journey and I'm sure there are many out there who will find these passages very intriguing.
9 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Futuristic Penn State Molestation Economic Thriller College Party Days Satirical Novel
By Sir Charles Panther
Disclosure: author Zen contacted me and offered this book. I accepted, promising a fair and honest review in return.
Zen, you published a book, something I have not done (yet). Good on ya. Seriously. That takes dedication and work, and that's something. But . . .
I'm receiving more requests to review books, most all from self-publishers. It's obvious these authors are not taking the time to read my reviews. It seems these requestors assume that because I'm a Top 1,000 reviewer I lavish four and five stars on everything. Not so. If it's fantastic (Suttree, Deliverance, Heavy Weather) I can't wait to share my joy. If the product is fair/mediocre, I say so. And if it's garbage (Transmissions, The Malacca Conspiracy) I'm happy to write at length about why it's so awful, as a warning to others and hopefully as feedback to the product's originator.
I received a request the other day to read Flying Solo, and the publisher description noted it has "well flushed out characters." So this book is about colonic irrigation and aviation? I passed.
So, I observe once again that in writing and publishing a book, investing in a professional editor is a very wise move. Two pages told me this book would be a chore to get through, due to its nonstop glaring errors. This book is rife with incorrect usage, wrong word choices and syntax, incorrect spelling and punctuation and grammar, as well as run-on sentences, awkward and confusing dialog, tense and capitalization errors, and then some. No one is perfect, but when every single page has at least one error and usually more, you could have written Finnegans Wake and it's still going to stink. These mistakes are amateurish, the fruit of cost-cutting, the bane of self-publishing. Soon enough, I was looking for the next error, focusing on the endless mistakes, ultimately distracting me from the story, preventing me from getting into the characters and their world.
In this book, more than once, a character performs an action and exclaims, "Viola!" A shale deposit is described as "a few thousand square meters." At one point the "sun shined in the valley." A building's roof shingles are described as "partially rusted"--huh?--and yet in the next sentence "...the roof was new..." Some furniture is set up "caddy cornered." A smooth talker says, "Those are words to my ears, baby..." Marijuana and ecstasy are cited as examples of hallucinogens. A group of people "stammered off." A salad features "florette baby leaves," and then the diners have "desert." A character is described as a "dooshbag." After a death there's an "awake and funeral." A woman who handles a difficult fact "wasn't really phased." And they keep on coming, on every page.
So...synopsis: In the chaotic economy of the 2020s, a corrupt billionaire fund manager revels in outlandishly obvious and lucrative insider trading and complications ensue, while engaging in extended reveries of his beloved drugged-out, drunken, wastrel college days at Zeno State.
The back-cover write-up says this is a satire, and it took me a while to suss it out. Apparently this is Zen's musings on those deluded fools who are struggling with the Penn State child molestation scandal. His approach is interesting, getting into a loyal Zeno State graduate's internal struggle with the love of school, reminiscence of great times, loyalty to institution, reverence for a beloved coach and leader, and the incontrovertible proof that Beloved Coach and others sold children out to abuse in favor of school/football brand solidity. It's a good start, but doesn't resolve. The introduction states that this is a work of fiction, that similarities are coincidental and not intended by the author, yet the Zeno State scandal is so clearly Penn State that this disclaimer is ridiculous.
So, here are the main parts of the story: 1) corrupt billionaire financier and his dealings and dalliances; 2) the Zeno State scandal, breaking and maturing; 3) extended economic explanation/discussion, complete with block quotes that go on for pages, some of them even end-noted; 4) the college days flashbacks. They all sort of go together, but also sort of don't. The overly long, at many times pointless flashbacks to the magnificent college days of tailgating with the fratboys, booze, weed, blow and ass go on and on, and the narrator somehow gets out with a degree, while also day-trading his way to the top. There's some necessary narrative history in these flashbacks, but what it really looks like is indulgent author memoirs. The extended descriptions of the fictional economic situation and economic theory don't make sense, and are often contradictory. And the billionaire portion of the story doesn't hold up either; the guy doesn't even have a personal assistant. He drives himself everywhere, and there is no mention of the press/paparazzi monitoring his every move. At one point there's a problem with a scheduled plane flight and an absent pilot. No, it doesn't work that way with billionaires; they have their own planes and hangars and schedules and pilots; they do what they want, when they want to.
And the end involves essentially a total meltdown, with precious little foreshadowing or build-up, capped with a truly ridiculous chase, military armament, and FBI agents. And the Fight Club device. Huh? It looks to me like it was just time to wrap it all up, to get it over and done with, where another 80-odd pages of narrative moving the story toward the finale would have sewn the story up in a more cohesive way.
Bottom line: The nonstop editing flaws in this book drag it down, way down. There are interesting elements in the story, such as the exploration of a Penn State, er, Zeno State die-hard dealing with the sex abuse scandal. This book starts to get at it, but so much else is going on that this subject, ripe for exploitation, does not get the treatment it deserves.
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