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"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

I like to read everything from literature to thrilling modern page-turners by Koontz and King. My favorite authors are Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Georges Simenon, and Robert Heinlein. I like the Uglies, Pretties, Specials series by Scott Westerfeld and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card as well as Hugh Howey's Wool and Silo series.

• Dreams in Kratocracy (2012 Edition) on May 20, 2016
  
  'Dreams of Kratocracy' is a deeply saddening and beautiful book. The author has set the tale in Europian. Europian is a dystopian fictional future world that is worse yet likely eerily similar in some ways to the world that the human race is headed toward (a world where the gap between the haves and have-nots widens as power including money trumps our own humanity). In Europian, oppressive societal control exists under the illusion of a perfect society created by the powers that be. In the tradition of stark, dark future societies, this dark futuristic literary science-fiction novel is reminiscent yet not at all derivative of George Orwell's '1984.' In the future super-state of Europian, a police inspector, Inspector Beech, stumbles into evidence of the secret dark, controlled Kratocracy--the Government controlled reality created by those who seized power--during a routine accident investigation. The society is largely numb, humorless, poor, and so down-trodden that they accept their domination by the well-to-do who are in power politically and otherwise. I found the numb naïvitee of Inspector Beech, the main character, and the highly-structured dark and forbidding, yet curiously banal, setting and story line to be very realistic, plausible, and appropriate for the story. The themes of power-mongering, apathy, and flawed politics and values, are highly intelligent. The prose style is spare and clipped and the pace of the plot is fast. The plot is an exploration of the dark side of politics and political agendas and the unraveling of one man's life. The book will quite likely make you think a great deal more about the shadowy machinations of politicians around the world. Beech's life-changing investigation reveals the current Europian regime's conspiracy to wipe out Jow... a passionate grass-roots political opponent who is successfully campaigning to become president of the Europian parliament. In the course of his life's unraveling, Beech feels a passion and intense love, for reporter Fiona, likely for the first time in his life. The reviews for this book are polarized, quite likely because the author avoids the trite Hollywood ending that most readers, perhaps largely American readers, seem to prefer. Certain readers who do not enjoy the literature of bygone era, books by authors such as H.G. Wells, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley, or George Orwell and the like, may not enjoy or entirely get this work of literary fiction. If you do like or love the aforementioned authors then, as I did, you will likely very much enjoy this book. 'Dreams in Kratocracy' is scarily reflective of what modern society may become. Happy reading~*