"The Frankenstein Candidate"

Posted by khalling 12 years, 10 months ago to Books

Is up on Amazon for $1.99. I do not know for how long. If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend it. Here is a link to my book discussion questions. I'm looking forward to discussing it in the Gulch.
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/be...

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Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago

"If you don't control your politicians, they will control you." Is that a Vinay original quote? I want to use it.

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  Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
  
  Yes, that's original. You can use it with attribution.
  
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    Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
    
    Thanks! I love it (loved the book too). I'm using it currently as the signature on my emails. :)
    
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      Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
      
      I just added your name and book name to it. :)
      
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Many thanks. I hope you can do an Amazon review. Originally I had some other famous author's quote, but changed it to this. Another of my personal favourites from the book is Senator Olivia Allen's "my colleagues are very compassionate with other people's money."
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Planning on it...will do soon... :) ("compassionate about other people's money" lol... Compassionate...ha)
        
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Oh, thanks for the review, because of the heading I think it is yours, nice clue.
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        ;) Good deduction, Sherlock. lol
        
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Elementary, my dear Watson.
        
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Thank you, my dear Watson.
        
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Posted by johnrobert2 12 years, 10 months ago

I see where at least two others made the connection to Allen Drury. Must be old futzers like me who can remember back that far.

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Posted by johnrobert2 12 years, 10 months ago

Googa

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  Posted by khalling 12 years, 10 months ago
  
  huh? lol
  
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Posted by minniepuck 12 years, 10 months ago

I just purchased it. Thanks for the recommend, khaling. I won't be able to get to the book for a few days since I'm proofreading two other novels (where the protagonist in one is an evil business man again... ugh!), but I'll soon read it.

Does anyone know of a place where authors and readers who support non-leftist messages are getting together? Is there a group like that here that I've missed? If there are members on this site who write novels like these, I'd love to know who they are so I can read their work and support them as well.

Again, thanks for the recommend, khaling. Keep them coming, please.

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  Posted by minniepuck 12 years, 10 months ago
  
  not protagonist -- the antagonist. sorry.
  
  an evil business man protagonist would be interesting...
  
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    Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 10 months ago
    
    Then read "Roarke's Drift" when it's finished.:)
    
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      Posted by minniepuck 12 years, 10 months ago
      
      I would love to.
      
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        Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Well, Eddie Roarke will be "evil" because he'll promote everything the politically correct deem evil... pollution, oil, discrimination, technology, self-reliance (from government, that is), and more.
        
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        Posted by minniepuck 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        gotcha. sounds good. are you going to self publish?
        
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        Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        probably :(
        
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        The new wave in Hollywood is to show the evil businessman antagonist not even get his due; unimaginably cynical and infinitely worse than the antagonist like that getting his comeuppance; anyone saw Arbitrage starring Richard Gere? That's where the culture has got to. Good luck with your novel.
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        self publishing is the wave of the future. Most publishers aren't doing that well. They are almost all progressive. They do not want sane heroes with sound principles. My novel has broken into the Top 100 medical thrillers. I am self-published. Consider reading, "Pendulum of Justice," Hiraghm, I think you'll like it. How far along are you in "The Frankenstein Candidate?" I am really looking forward to a discussion about it on this post.
        
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  Posted by khalling 12 years, 10 months ago
  
  well, minnie, I have just released a techno thriller with my husband, "Pendulum of Justice." wdonway has several novels and a couple of books of poetry out, consider starting with "The Price of Hannah Blake." AJ's novel, "Shadows Live Under Seashells," overmanwarrior's novel, "Symposium of Justice" and "Tail of the Dragon."
  Check out Goodread's small government group. Lets Shrug and I are members.
  Euda has a collection of satirical poetry in the works....
  
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    Posted by minniepuck 12 years, 10 months ago
    
    WOW - didn't know we had so many writers in our group. this is great news. i'll make a note of everything you mentioned and will check them out on amazon.
    
    i'm on goodreads, too. i'll go see if I can find the small government group and will try to join.
    
    THANKS!
    
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      Posted by khalling 12 years, 10 months ago
      
      see you there!
      
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Posted by johnrobert2 12 years, 10 months ago

Just got it today. At about pg 60.

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  Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
  
  You were reading at a gun show???
  
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    Posted by johnrobert2 12 years, 10 months ago
    
    Well, yes. There are slow periods when you have about 5 min to do something else and you can't wander the floor looking at stuff YOU want to see.
    
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Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago

I'm at 94%...and a little annoyed.

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  Posted by khalling 12 years, 10 months ago
  
  interesting
  
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    Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
    
    ?
    
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      Posted by khalling 12 years, 10 months ago
      
      I'm interested that you are annoyed at the end of the book-looking forward to hearing why
      
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        94% is right after the election/appointments so I was annoyed with that...but the subsequent unraveling of the politicians was nice. Frank stood his ground and stirred up somethings, which is what we need, just a lot more of it.
        
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        Posted by johnrobert2 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Finished mine about 5 minutes ago. Vinay must have been channeling Allen Drury. Much of the plot line could have been drawn from his famous series. The political maturation of Olivia reads much like Ceil Jason, with a happier ending. Frank comes off like Orrin Knox, though Frank gets to keep his Kyla. An enjoyable read.
        
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Hi, John, I hadn't heard of Allen Drury until Walter Donway, and then another reader compared the book to Advice & Consent. I still haven't read that book. Please do a review on Amazon when you can.
        
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        Posted by johnrobert2 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Allen Drury's series begins with 'Advise and Consent' and goes through 'Promise of Joy'. The intervening books are 'Capable of Honor', 'A Shade of Difference', 'Preserve and Protect', 'Come Nineveh, Come Tyre'. At the end of 'Preserve and Protect', there is a seminal event which, in 'Come Nineveh...' and 'Promise...', points to two different endings. Which is where I came up with the comment concerning 'channeling Allen Drury..'. So, to get the full import, you are in for a long reading session. Settle back, get comfortable and have at it.
        
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        I will read Capable of Honor before Xmas I think. Thanks for the review by the way.
        
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        Posted by johnrobert2 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        See my comment below.
        
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        There were other readers, including an editor at a publishing house, who felt let down at the election outcome, but some liked the non-cheesy ending & the unpredictability. As Kayla says afterward "we moved the needle...by quite a lot," and Frank says at the start "Id rather be right than President."
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Being and staying principled IS the key. It's the answer to everything, actually.
        
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        I had 3 endings---Olivia becomes Prez, and FS moves into the White House as Treasury Sec. Frank becomes Prez. And then the one that made the cut. {The SEC is very powerful and can go after anyone with a lot of money. And to run a campaign like FS, you have to be a billionaire to fund it entirely yourself, and be beholden to none.}
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        The principled way...I get it. Funny... it crossed my mind that Olivia would end up vice pres with Claire.
        
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Actually, sorry, that was the way the original manuscript went. Olivia ends up Veep to Claire, and asks that FS becomes Treasury Sec. But then I discarded that one.
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        You went the more realistic route :)
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        my husband and I mused that Frank and Olivia would become part of a shadow government. It would be an enjoyable sequel. I would love to read about how to keep that needle moving-certainly it can't be done in in one election cycle. As well, I would have enjoyed more of Kayla's story, and her work as a journalist.
        
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        Posted by Vinay 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        Kayla could come back powerfully in a sequel. Yes, I agree, more of her would have been good. At least she lasted the distance, whereas I thought XXXtine was about to be rescued from the bathtub.
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 10 months ago
        
        ...don't talk about that....
        
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