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Delirious
by
Daniel Palmer (Goodreads Author)
Charlie Giles, inventor of a new digital-entertainment system for automobiles, is stunned when his life abruptly falls to pieces around him. After being publicly humiliated by a seemingly self-destructive stunt at a high-level meeting, Charlie says he was set up by a colleague who, apparently, doesn’t exist. Then he’s fired from his company after an audit reveals that he u...more
Hardcover, 384 pages
Published
February 1st 2011
by Kensington
(first published January 25th 2011)
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Finished this book. Palmer has written a good first effort. no doubt we will be hearing, and reading, more from him. This book is a very internal or mental process narration and if this is your thing then this book is for you.
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Coming up on pg 100 I'm, thus far, drawn into the mental, possibly disturbed, world of the main character still unsure who he is and if he has serious issues. Palmer is...more
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Coming up on pg 100 I'm, thus far, drawn into the mental, possibly disturbed, world of the main character still unsure who he is and if he has serious issues. Palmer is...more
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Jan 06, 2011
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Rating: 2 out of 3 stars
What could have possibly gone wrong? Charlie Giles had it all. He had a great job with numerous people working for him. He was even allowed to bring his dog to work! Then he got that email. Saying his department was going to be shut down and someone in the company was behind the siege. Try as he might, in the end he gets fired and his biggest fear comes to light: He is becoming delirious. Just like his father and brother.
And then it becomes critical. He finds a hand writt...more
What could have possibly gone wrong? Charlie Giles had it all. He had a great job with numerous people working for him. He was even allowed to bring his dog to work! Then he got that email. Saying his department was going to be shut down and someone in the company was behind the siege. Try as he might, in the end he gets fired and his biggest fear comes to light: He is becoming delirious. Just like his father and brother.
And then it becomes critical. He finds a hand writt...more
Delirious is the perfect name for this psychological thriller from author, Daniel Palmer... after all, I was in a state of delirium the entire time I read this book -- engrossed, thrilled, and in a frenzy to find out where the story was headed, I read it late into the night and then late into the next morning. (Hey, running late to work every now and then isn't such a bad thing, right?)
Charles Giles, the main character, works high in the ranks at a large electronics firm after selling his own st...more
Charlie Giles is successful, intelligent, wealthy and a bit of a snob. His company has done well and his baby, InVision, is a hit. Charlie is on top of the world... until strange things start to happen.
Charlie begins to find notes in his own handwriting, that he can't remember writing. Then a woman who claims to work for his company, SoluCent, comes to him with information that his life's work is to be threatened from within the company. Charlie intends to see that this does not happen and after...more
Charlie begins to find notes in his own handwriting, that he can't remember writing. Then a woman who claims to work for his company, SoluCent, comes to him with information that his life's work is to be threatened from within the company. Charlie intends to see that this does not happen and after...more
If the name sounds familiar, it should. Daniel is best selling novelist Michael Palmer's son. Apparently talent runs in the Palmer genes, because "Delirious" is as white knuckled a thriller as ever there was one. It's actually a techno-thriller that rings very true--Palmer was a pioneering e-commerce website developer, so he knows of which he writes. The main character, Charlie, is a hot shot computer guy who has just merged his small company with a huge one and is set to hit the big leagues in...more
Delirious
Author: Daniel Palmer
Reviewed by Fran Lewis
Appearances can be deceiving. Often what really is might not be. What you think if happened can all be one illusion created to distort your mind and soul with the purpose of manipulating the outcome for someone else’s benefit or pleasure. Betrayals can destroy your spirit, trust and motivation creating a negative outlook for someone with a fragile persona. Eddie Prescott was world-class software engineer whose life spiraled out of control. A se...more
Author: Daniel Palmer
Reviewed by Fran Lewis
Appearances can be deceiving. Often what really is might not be. What you think if happened can all be one illusion created to distort your mind and soul with the purpose of manipulating the outcome for someone else’s benefit or pleasure. Betrayals can destroy your spirit, trust and motivation creating a negative outlook for someone with a fragile persona. Eddie Prescott was world-class software engineer whose life spiraled out of control. A se...more
Oh my goodness! When I started this book I had no idea what to expect. I'm still pretty new to the Thriller genre and I'd never read a Techno-thriller before. I'm really glad that I took a leap of faith on this book because I really enjoyed it.
Charlie Giles has it all at the beginning of the book. He has a great job and has a fair number of people who work for him. But then he gets word that his department is being "axed" and the job has been done internally. Even though Charlie tries extremely...more
Charlie Giles has it all at the beginning of the book. He has a great job and has a fair number of people who work for him. But then he gets word that his department is being "axed" and the job has been done internally. Even though Charlie tries extremely...more
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Delirious by Daniel Palmer
Reviewed by Russell Ilg
I have always been a huge fan of new authors because it can open a whole new world to us the readers and find that new talent that is sure to be a super star writer. So I go out of my way to find these rising stars and make sure I give them a try, because most of the time to get to the point where they get published in this world of very tough standards it has to be special to have made it to the finished product.
Delirious is one of those books fr...more
Reviewed by Russell Ilg
I have always been a huge fan of new authors because it can open a whole new world to us the readers and find that new talent that is sure to be a super star writer. So I go out of my way to find these rising stars and make sure I give them a try, because most of the time to get to the point where they get published in this world of very tough standards it has to be special to have made it to the finished product.
Delirious is one of those books fr...more
In the book Delirious, by Daniel Palmer, Charlie is a man who is self centered and highly motivated. He works for the high-tech firm SoluCent, which bought out Charlie's start-up company, where he is head of the Magellan Team that leads his project. But in his assent to get where he is, Charlie has stepped on more than a few toes, and has hidden a secret or two. With schizophrenia having taken hold of Charlie's father and brother, is there really someone out to get him, or has Charlie been gripp...more
One day, Charlie Giles is an up-and-coming electronics superstar. The next, he's a prime homicide suspect as his former employers are picked off one by one. Charlie watches his life unravel as his company and inventions are wrenched from his control, and his family is decimated. With nowhere else to turn, he enlists his schizophrenic brother to uncover the dark family secrets that lie at the heart of the unfolding terror. "Delirious" is a mind-bending story where the line between what is real an...more
Jan 18, 2011
Jennifer
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You know the old adage "Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you"? That's the theme of Delirious in a nutshell. Charlie is a highly successful, detail oriented man whose life begins to unravel. He's seeing things and hearing things that others can't. He's finding notes to himself, written in his own handwriting, that he doesn't remember ever writing. With a family history of schizophrenia, is seems likely that Charlie's sudden career crash-and-burn is caused by th...more
Debut novels sometimes are a bummer, but once in a while you find that one has it running on all cylinders; that is Delirious. This is a novel that mixes elements of a few genres together, but Daniel Palmer weaves them into one tightknit novel that is difficult to put down. Here is the 411 on the plotline:
“One day, Charlie Giles is an up-and-coming electronics superstar. The next, he's a prime homicide suspect as his former employers are picked off one by one. Charlie watches his life unravel as...more
“One day, Charlie Giles is an up-and-coming electronics superstar. The next, he's a prime homicide suspect as his former employers are picked off one by one. Charlie watches his life unravel as...more
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I really enjoyed this book. Perhaps the story-line has been done before; things happening to, and around, a person who doesn't remember any of it and is made to look like they're losing it. But this is handled in a unique way and the characters are very strong and believable. The story moves at a great pace, never lags, and what happens to the main character is far beyond bizarre. After awhile, you do begin to wonder if it really is him and has he truly lost his mind. Is he doing these things he...more
This is a debut thriller from Michael Palmer's son. Charlie Giles, a top software engineer at SoluCent, has developed InVision, a supersophisticated car entertainment system that's poised to become the next big thing. Anne Pedersen, a low-level SoluCent marketing employee, tips Giles off that one of his superiors, Jerry Schmidt, will argue against a deal with GM to make InVision standard. When Giles crashes an executive team meeting and confronts Schmidt, Schmidt says he's always supported the d...more
Okay, ya'll know I love to do honest opinions but HATE giving bad reviews. So, my honest opinion is this: this novel, this debut, by a surely talented author, was okay. Simply okay. But, that is just this one reader's opinion. I can't really pinpoint what it was lacking for me. The characters were great, the plot line was very intriguing. But, there was just something missing.
That being said, I will not discourage anyone from reading this. The psychological, edge-of -your-seat thrills is definit...more
That being said, I will not discourage anyone from reading this. The psychological, edge-of -your-seat thrills is definit...more
This was...interesting. Not entirely what I expected, too.
The main character, Charlie Giles, has everything he wants from his career. His baby, an in-car stereo system/GPS/Bluetooth THING, is about to be released, earning his company bazillions of dollars. But then Charlie starts finding notes written in his own handwriting. Notes that he has no memory of writing. And when he gatecrashes an important meeting on the recommendation of a woman claiming to be a company employee, things go from bad...more
The main character, Charlie Giles, has everything he wants from his career. His baby, an in-car stereo system/GPS/Bluetooth THING, is about to be released, earning his company bazillions of dollars. But then Charlie starts finding notes written in his own handwriting. Notes that he has no memory of writing. And when he gatecrashes an important meeting on the recommendation of a woman claiming to be a company employee, things go from bad...more
Charlie Giles worked hard to get to the top of the high tech company Solucent. He also made more than a few enemies in the process. Now his success will come with a price and he finds himself in a desperate fight to stop a killer. The problem is convincing himself and others that he’s not the killer.
Is someone out to get him, make him think he's the killer or is his worst nightmare coming true? With the help of his schizophrenic brother, he frantically tries to solve the mystery while still try...more
Is someone out to get him, make him think he's the killer or is his worst nightmare coming true? With the help of his schizophrenic brother, he frantically tries to solve the mystery while still try...more
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What if you knew there was a roughly 50/50 chance you'd get a life-threatening mental illness that would destroy everything you'd achieved in your life? How would you cope with that?
Charlie Giles is your basic self-centered techno yuppie - the marketing end of a duo whose technical half created InVision and took the company to a multi-billion dollar acquisition. So a few people got hurt along the way - the ends justify the means, right? For anyone who labored in the vineyards of the dot com boom...more
Charlie Giles is your basic self-centered techno yuppie - the marketing end of a duo whose technical half created InVision and took the company to a multi-billion dollar acquisition. So a few people got hurt along the way - the ends justify the means, right? For anyone who labored in the vineyards of the dot com boom...more
Delirious, Daniel Palmer’s debut novel, is the story of Charlie Giles, an executive at software corporation SoluCent. Charlie’s seemingly perfect life quickly begins to unravel, and he begins to question his own sanity. Charlie’s family history doesn’t help. His father and brother are both schizophrenic. As things spiral further and further out of control, Charlie must figure out if he really is losing his mind or if someone is trying to set him up.
I was excited to read Delirious after a recent...more
I was excited to read Delirious after a recent...more
Delirious is billed as a thriller- but so much more- A very touching and affecting portrait of the effect mental illness has on a family- especially two brothers and how they come to understand each other under very difficult circumstances- so a great thriller indeed - but also a coming of age aspect too. David Palmer is a superb writer. The character of Charlie evolves so very much over the course of this superb book. The reader's understanding of the mentally ill and the challenges they face-...more
Charlie Giles is at the top of his game. An electronics superstar, he's sold his startup company to a giant Boston firm, where he's now a senior director. With his dog, Monte, at his side, Charlie is treated like a VIP everywhere he goes.
Then one day, everything in Charlie's neatly ordered world starts to go terrifyingly wrong. His prestigious job and his inventions are wrenched away from him. His family is targeted, and his former employers are dying gruesomely, picked off one by one. Every si...more
Then one day, everything in Charlie's neatly ordered world starts to go terrifyingly wrong. His prestigious job and his inventions are wrenched away from him. His family is targeted, and his former employers are dying gruesomely, picked off one by one. Every si...more
"We are what we pretend to be."
I ended up getting this book and not knowing weather I was even going to read it or not. But, now that I've read it I actually liked the book. It was hard to get into for me in the beginning because of all the corporate talk kinda of lost me. Once I got past that stuff started to happen. I actually started having kind of weird creepy dreams. Some of the action scenes in the book were creepy. I couldn't put the book down once it started to pick up. It reminded me of...more
I ended up getting this book and not knowing weather I was even going to read it or not. But, now that I've read it I actually liked the book. It was hard to get into for me in the beginning because of all the corporate talk kinda of lost me. Once I got past that stuff started to happen. I actually started having kind of weird creepy dreams. Some of the action scenes in the book were creepy. I couldn't put the book down once it started to pick up. It reminded me of...more
Delirious
Author: Daniel Palmer
Characters: 4 out of 5
Plot: 4 out of 5
Overall: 4 out of 5
Format: Paperback
Source: Provided by the Author
Description: (Author's Website) Charlie Giles is at the top of his game. An electronics superstar, he’s sold his start-up company to a giant Boston firm, where he’s now a senior director. With his dog, Monte, at his side, Charlie is treated like a VIP everywhere he goes.
Then one day, everything in Charlie’s neatly ordered world starts to go terrifyingly wrong. His...more
Author: Daniel Palmer
Characters: 4 out of 5
Plot: 4 out of 5
Overall: 4 out of 5
Format: Paperback
Source: Provided by the Author
Description: (Author's Website) Charlie Giles is at the top of his game. An electronics superstar, he’s sold his start-up company to a giant Boston firm, where he’s now a senior director. With his dog, Monte, at his side, Charlie is treated like a VIP everywhere he goes.
Then one day, everything in Charlie’s neatly ordered world starts to go terrifyingly wrong. His...more
Good book. Kept you guessing. Was he really going crazy or was someone out to get him. Charlie, who's brother and father had schizophrenia wonders if he is becoming mentally ill too. Charlie is a successful businessman but he is approached by a woman who leads him to believe one of his bosses is out to discredit his computer brainchild. When he goes into a meeting to try to challenge his boss, he realizes he has been duped. He is fired and then things start to really go wrong. Notes written in h...more
I liked this fast paced thriller. Was Charlie crazy or could the circumstances of his firing have been manipulated? His mother was in a coma and this led to a reconnection with the brother who he was trying to forget. I liked the very real relationship between the two. Charlie harbored a lot of bad feelings toward his brother that stole most of their mother’s attention. Add into the mix that Charlie really felt like he was going crazy and could identify with his brother and the typical thriller...more
This first novel was horrendous from start to finish. A good idea badly written is still a lousy book. From the beginning, our hero wanders through a series of frameups that a man of his supposed intellect would never have allowed to happen. The story is so preposterous that I could not suspend my disbelief and the writing is amateurish as well.I hate books where we are treated to the character's thoughts ad nauseam. Should he do this or should he do that. If he does this, this might happen but...more
I thought the beginning of the novel was extremely slow. About half-way through the novel, the suspense started picking up. When Charlie got admitted to the hospital. I was starting to question myself on whats going on with Charlie. Is he losing his mind? or is someone trying to set him up.
I was really curious of who Anne Peterson are, and what was her involvement in the story. I found it a little unreal that charlies ex-partnet Eddie Prescott started talking to him. There was definately somethi...more
I was really curious of who Anne Peterson are, and what was her involvement in the story. I found it a little unreal that charlies ex-partnet Eddie Prescott started talking to him. There was definately somethi...more
The review below was written by my mother and I have to say I agree with it! This was a fantastic thrilling read!
When I first started reading this, I felt like I was not going to enjoy it. It wasn't long before it got to the "can't put it down" stage. It kept you in suspense as to who dunnit throughout the book. Your mind was constantly changing directions as to who was the guilty party. The main character was a man who had it all. His past comes back to haunt him. Questioning his own sanity and...more
When I first started reading this, I felt like I was not going to enjoy it. It wasn't long before it got to the "can't put it down" stage. It kept you in suspense as to who dunnit throughout the book. Your mind was constantly changing directions as to who was the guilty party. The main character was a man who had it all. His past comes back to haunt him. Questioning his own sanity and...more
I enjoyed this debut novel by Daniel Palmer and was fascinated by the technology described throughout. It was completely believable to me because the minute you buy the latest technology available on the market, something even more incredible is offered the next day or week. I loved the characters of Charlie, Joe and Rachel and the relationships that developed. Unfortunately, I guessed the outcome of the story early on and remained convinced even though I didn't know how it would play out. But,...more
After coming up with a new invention that includes in one thin piece everything one needs for entertainment in a car, Charlie is on top of the world. Successful business, alot of money, loves his job. Than everything falls apart and Charlie doesn't know if it the same mental illness that has impacted his brothers and fathers lives. Or is someone out to get him, but that its the first sign of mental illness. Very good first novel, interesting suspense and storyline. This is a solid thriller, wher...more
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Daniel Palmer spent a decade as an e-commerce pioneer helping to build first generation websites for Barnes & Noble and other popular brands. An experienced musician and songwriter, Daniel has recorded two CDs and licensed his songs for commercial use. Daniel's co-written two short stories for the trade organization International Thriller Writers, which were published in Thriller (edited by Ja...more
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