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Fantastic review! I'm sure you're thrilled.
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I'd be thrilled to bits with that review from anybody, but Kathleen Valentine is a writer I rate for her talent, her taste and her discrimination. I've observed her to be a class act. The approval of a such a writer is exceedingly special. It's not a novelty to me — I remember John Braine approving of my work in The Telegraph, and the special pleasure of the historian Donald McCormick flattering me by saying I illuminated Sir Basil Zaharoff for him, and much more of that nature — but a writer would have to be old and calloused indeed if such a review from such a source is no longer exceedingly special.
You've hit the nail on the head, Gingerlily.
Deliciating in the power of words, quagswagging the prissy ones by Andre JutePatricia Sierra writes on ROBUST: "Here are some words to add to our vocabularies today: 20 obsolete English words that should make a comeback. Andre is probably using all of them routinely already."
I used deliciate in an after-dinner speech last year. Sadly, everyone in the room (mostly college teachers) knew it, or at least thought they knew it, from the familiar root.
Brannigan I used once to describe a fistfight that broke out in a rugby scrum which resulted in four players (all on the other team) being carried off, and the disciplinary committee let me off on the grounds that, if they couldn't understand what I was saying, I was likely preparing to make fools of them again if they presumed to discipline me. When one of them asked me later what it meant, I described it as, "An action approved by Duke Wayne," and he nodded his head briskly in wise agreement.
Quagswagging I used once in a novel as quagswagged for grabbing a miscreant by the shoulders and shaking him until his teeth rattle. The commissioning editor knew better than to argue with me, but three copy editors went in cabal to the publisher who called me and said, "Over my dead body." I knew when I was beat. It deserves to be revived and recast for my purpose.
I also know and occasionally in the right company use jargogle, pronounced with two hard gees as jargoggle, corrade, kench (which Sharon Tillotson suggests we use in place of LOL), brabble, bibesy (because it shares a root with bibulous and is thus semi-familiar to the educated), widdendream, twitter-light for twilight.
Ludibrious is likely to be mispronounced by Americans as bry- whereas it should be bree- and is anyway superfluous when we have risible.
Sanguinolent is pompous when we have bloodthirsty.
Jollux doesn't mean just fat, it means a buffoon. Falstaff in the Shakespeare two-parter about King Hal is jollux.
Malagrug shows promise if we need a neologism to replace grim or dismal. Malagrugrous just sounds too inelegant for words. Don't do it.
Freck sounds too much like genteel form of f*ck.
Perisollogy and hoddypeak are just too prissy for words.
Scriptitation too is prissy, but could usefully encapsulate my mantra, "A writer writes" as scriptitatum scriptitator for those with, or pretensions to, a classical education.
A teacher who tells a student he is yemeles (pronunciation yeemless) deserves what he gets. Better perhaps to misuse the harmless word casual to mean careless, heedless, negligent.
Illecebrous is one of those words whose sound is contrary to its meaning. It doesn't sound alluring, enticing or attractive to me at all. Perhaps we can revive it with a new meaning to describe those D-grade celebrities who are celebrated only for being criminal or crooked or plain nasty.
Copyright ©2012 Andre Jute
Andre Jute is a best-selling novelist and, through his non-fiction books, a leading teacher of creative writing, graphic design and engineering. He was previously an adventurer, advertising executive, political and military advisor, and performing arts critic. He is currently editorial advisor to the micropublisher CoolMain Press. He is the founder of the notorious free-for-all discussion group ROBUST, which those who read this article all the way through will probably like.
This article is reprinted from Andre's blog Kissing the Blarney.
What happens when Rooney Mara publicly approves of your book's central theme?
Rooney Mara plays Lisbeth Salander in the Hollywood version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (Photo courtesy Elen Nivrae)
STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress, is on the bestseller lists for the third year running, now in a fourth country as well. Thank you to all the people who bought it. Thank you to Rooney Mara for speaking out in Paris! (See the article on my blog Kissing the Blarney.)
US Paid
#4 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
#4 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
#67 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Literary Criticism & Theory
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#3 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Literary Criticism & Theory
#7 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Thrillers > Technothrillers
#7 in Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Technothrillers
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Nr. 6 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englische eBooks > Belletristik > Weltliteratur > Skandinavien
Nr. 50 in Englische Bücher > Belletristik > Weltliteratur > Skandinavien
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n°5 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Scandinavian
n°47 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > European
• Andre Jute is the author, with Andrew McCoy, of the first and only book-length literary criticism of STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress.
[This has buggerall to do with my books but Gabriela thought you might enjoy something different from me.]THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC LEPRECHAUN HUNT
Look carefully at the second-last photograph, in which the leprechaun appears near the bottom centre; you'll see the quality of the light is different in the leprechaun's dimension or world, which presumably accounts for those large black light-gathering eyes. http://soupandnuts.wordpress.com/2012...
Right - thats a challenge! Dublin will now be doing it's own experiments - we will have to be the first to capture a leprechaun....
I wish you luck, Gingerlily. You do know the @£$%^&*( little creatures are dangerous, don't you? See the third photograph drown at http://soupandnuts.wordpress.com/2012... in which the VOMmit shows that one of them reverse-rigged part of my apparatus to give me a shock of 22.8V for 4m17s -- potentially fatal -- without the plug being attached to any current. Their understanding of the electrical possibilities of capacitance is clearly advanced. I know, I know, in the interests of science you will dare anything, but for the posterity of the recipe thread take at least reasonable care.
We will be very careful - we are fully aware of the dangers. Our program was abandoned several years ago due to the mysterious illness of the Team Leader and several highly suspicious injuries picked up while doing field testing of our apparatus. However, we think the time is ripe for another attempt.
This is the cover for a minimalist novel about a real election told in the words of real people, two of them Eisenhower and Nixon, so I thought a restrained cover with the seal they both wielded would do well. Let us know what you think.
And this is the jacket copy:***
CoolMain Press Proudly Announces
publication on 20 April 2012 of
AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS
a true novel in their own words
the most important political book
of this election
It didn’t just happen that soundbite television came to trivialize policy.
Someone willed it.
A very surprising someone.
With the best possible intentions.
For the best possible reasons.
In all sincerity.
To save the Republic.
To elect the best possible President.
A crime of influence.
Perpetrated by real people.
Who paid a real price.
This is their true story.
In their own words.
DON’T FIX THE BLAME UNTIL YOU’VE READ THIS BOOK!
***
The glove that fits TWO SHORTS (High Fidelity & Christmas Oratorio)
It is rare to find a review that is so apt that it fits the piece reviewed like a hand in a glove. Dan Wood has done it twice in two short paragraphs!
Review by: Dannneaux on April 17, 2012 :
Christmas Oratorio and High Fidelity are two tiny shorts written with an economy of words and a surfeit of meaning.
In "Oratorio", Jute draws the reader into his scenes with a delicious sense of literary voyeurism, conspiratorial asides, and delightful digressions for insight to the true meaning of Christmas in a small Irish town.
"Fidelity" is a well-crafted tale of dawning horror almost Haikulike in its lean, spare wording. Like any good mystery, all the clues are there and Jute plays fair with the reader. He asks, "Mmm, on Christmas, do you really want to know what happened?" A late-night read for any other day.
Reading these is time (only a little) well-spent.
— Review at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/73667
— Two Shorts (High Fidelity & Christmas Oratorio) is free at Smashwords and Amazon
Check out the Cookie's Book Club Giveaway to celebrate publication of REQUIEM AT MONZA by Dakota Franklin and AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS by André Jute.
Cookie's the one who conducted the super-involving interview with Dakota, and a moving review of my novel IDITAROD, and a revealing interview with me too. It's all linked from the Cookie's Giveaway Page. So go meet Dakato and me, read what an independent reader of good taste says of our books, and grab one of the six books Cookie's giving away entirely free of charge.
And while you're there, read Cookie's fascinating interview with Sarah Winman, author of WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT, which is linked from Cookie's Giveaway Page because you can get one of Sarah's books too.
Congratulations on your new book, Andre. It's the sort of book (politics, yech) on which I would never in a million years spend my own money. But once I started reading, I was so fascinated, first by how much you manage to do with so few words, and then by the characters and their pain and patriotism, that I read until dawn to finish it. It's probably a Really Important Book, but what I noticed most is that, even though we vaguely know the historical outcome, it is a novel of suspense too,The ending, with the shadow of the future baddie looming, is overwhelming in the three lines you give it. One day I too shall write that powerfully.
EDIT: The book I'm talking about is AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS, brand new, not yet on Goodreads, but available at Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/AN-ELECTION-O...
EDIT: AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS is now on Goodreads too: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
and AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS and
Andre, it's a good idea to have your name in your thread title so your thread appears in any searches. :)
Shush, Patti! I'm a boss marketer, I don't make silly mistakes like that...Seriously, thanks.
Why aren't you on Goodreads yet, is it too new, the same goes for Dakota's book?I totally agree with Dakota's comments, having read the book, the suspense is amazing even though you know the outcome, will he / won't he? Brilliant.
Why, thank you, kind Lynne. You should say that in your review. I'll tell you a secret: I'm as surprised as everyone else by how wonderfully deep that book turned out. For a while I was worried that readers would think such important material should be handled importantly, portentously, maybe even pompously.I don't know why the book isn't on Goodreads yet. Perhaps in the new dispensation between Amazon and Goodreads books aren't added automatically. I'll look into it.
Here's the news for anyone who wants to help out by telling their friends (not the kind who get apoplectic when discussing American politics -- I don't want anyone's life on my conscience!)
AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS is LAUNCHED at $4.99 (Amazon won't show me the British price!)
• Here's a tweet which both explains it, and serves for you to send all you political mates, of either political party.
#NEW! #Controversial #political #novel AN #ELECTION OF #PATRIOTS by Andre Jute http://www.amazon.com/AN-ELECTION-OF-... #RT to #activists
The end of that broken URL is AN-ELECTION-OF-PATRIOTS-ebook/dp/B007WB2MR4
• Those of you who want to write a review and don't have a copy yet, please drop a note to info at coolmainpress with the commercial extension to be put on the list.
AN #ELECTION OF #PATRIOTS by Andre #Jute #FREE Sat 28 & Sun 29 April FREE #politics #president http://www.amazon.co.uk/AN-ELECTION-O... #RTGrab a copy, save three quid, send the tweet to your mates, be a hero.
Thank *you* Lindsay, and you're welcome.
Are you being modest, Andre, or have you knocked off for the day? You're on the bestseller list too:AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS
UK
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,078 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
#3 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Political
#4 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > History > Americas
US
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,795 Free in Kindle Store
#2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Political
#2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > History > Americas > United States > 20th Century
FR
Classement des meilleures ventes d'Amazon: n°1.652 des titres gratuits dans la Boutique Kindle
n°1 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Political
n°1 dans Boutique Kindle > Ebooks Kindle > Ebooks en langues étrangères > Ebooks en anglais > History > Americas > United States > 20th Century
ES (Spain)
Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: n°1.071 Gratis en Tienda Kindle (Ver el Top 100 Gratis en Tienda Kindle)
n°21 en Tienda Kindle > eBooks Kindle > eBooks en idiomas extranjeros > eBooks en inglés > Historia
n°95 en Tienda Kindle > eBooks Kindle > eBooks en idiomas extranjeros > eBooks en inglés > Literatura y ficción
Still FREE until midnight Sunday Amazon time (8am Monday, British time). http://www.amazon.co.uk/AN-ELECTION-O...
Thanks, Dakota, thanks, Sarah. I think we must declare AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS an International Success....except in Italy, where they have the poor taste (or such a dud algorithm at Amazon) not to be downloading my book in large enough numbers to show up on the bestseller list.
You might have done better in Italy if you hadn't upset the Mafia ;0)
Never mind the Mafia in their little shiny suits, the Germans love me:Amazon Bestseller-Rang:
Nr. 1 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks > Fremdsprachige eBooks > Englische eBooks > Belletristik > Populäre Belletristik > Politisch
Here's the blurb for THE ECONOMY, STUPID, offered for further cutting, comments, defacing, graffiti. The cover art follows when I think it up and Mick executes it. I worked out once how to make a dollar sign in 3D out of marble in Photoshop. I wonder what happened to my notes of the procedure...***
Ever hear the catchphrase, “The Economy, Stupid?” Wonder what it means? Whether it is aimed at you?
Economics isn’t difficult to understand. It’s mainly a matter of following the personalities who shaped economic thought, and with it policy. After a quick read of THE ECONOMY, STUPID you will know what really matters in this, or any other, Presidential election. And why.
Above all, you will know who to blame.
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
An Ivy League/Oxbridge/Rhodes Scholar
Education in Political Economy
in One Hour
You can be as smart as the Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton, for whom the phrase was coined.
***
Maybe it's just me, but I like the simpler version Patricia Sierra posted on Andre's ROBUST group:THE ECONOMY, STUPID explains in under an hour what truly matters in this (or any other) Presidential election.
You'll be able to identify the culprits responsible for economic theory and policy -- and you'll know why they've created this mess.
In other words, you'll be as smart as Bill Clinton, the Rhodes Scholar for whom the catch phrase "It's the economy, stupid" was coined.
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
An Ivy League/Oxbridge/Rhodes Scholar
Education in Political Economy
in One Hour
Taking a tip from Sonic on my pages, I've added your book AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...and AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS and
Thanks, Dakota. Just as well, as the first review is in, see below.
Amazon review 4 stars out of 5
An Election of Patriots
April 30, 2012
By lbcr
Amazon Verified Purchase
WOW I have not been moved before to write a review but this book desires major attention. Not a fan of the short novel I did not expect much but was astounded by Mr. Jute's work. This work takes place when print media is at its height of influence but TV is fast moving in on the field. It shows one man with power and what he feels is an imperative to change the world as it is. This work is insightful, enlightening and has humor within it. If you have just a bit of history buff or election freak within you, please spend just a bit of time with this book and find a most enjoyable ride into the past. AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS
Here's the cover forIT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID
An Ivy League/Oxbridge/Rhodes Scholar
Education in Political Economy
in One Hour
Do you like it? If not, why not? If yes, what do you like?How would you improve it?
***
A simple, straighforward version of the jacket copy, offered for comment earlier, from Patricia Sierra:
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID explains in under an hour what truly matters in this (or any other) Presidential election.
You'll be able to identify the culprits responsible for economic theory and policy -- and you'll know why they've created this mess.
In other words, you'll be as smart as Bill Clinton, the Rhodes Scholar for whom the catch phrase "It's the economy, stupid" was coined.
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID
An Ivy League/Oxbridge/Rhodes Scholar
Education in Political Economy
in One Hour
***
I like it! Can you improve on it? Don't be shy.
It's certainly yellow.Eye-catching.
What is it like thumbnail sized?
It's too thuggish for my liking. A book about economics should have a subtle, thoughtful appearance.
Economics is quite a violent business, if you compress the timescale. Here's a new version with gold type to match the cover of AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS:
That's better. Not quite so glaring.
IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID
a Rhodes Scholar
Education in One Hour explains in under an hour what truly matters in this (or any other) Presidential election.You’ll be able to identify the culprits responsible for economic theory and policy — and you’ll know why they’ve created this mess.
In other words, you’ll be as smart as Bill Clinton, the Rhodes Scholar for whom the catch phrase “It’s the economy, stupid” was coined.
IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID a Rhodes Scholar Education in One Hour
The launch is supported by a bunch of CoolMain Press books at hugely reduced prices, or free.
Basically they're all down to $2.99 and sterling/euro equivalents of about £2/€2.60 or FREE except where Amazon isn't cooperating (in the UK only!), in which case try Smashwords instead.
Kathleen Valentine kindly invited me to launch IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID
a Rhodes Scholar
Education in One Hour on her Parlez-Moi Blog. I took the opportunity of explaining something about why I wrote the book, why it is so short, and why I priced so much expensive expertise at only 99¢.I called the piece "Striking back with knowledge". Read it all at Kathleen's Parlez-Moi Blog.
Here's the tweet for IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID
a Rhodes Scholar
Education in One Hour if you want to send it out. Or retweet from the page; I'm @thrillsjute on twitter.:IT'S THE #ECONOMY, STUPID Can 21K simple words make you as smart as Bill Clinton? 99¢ intro. http://parlezmoiblog.blogspot.ie/2012... #RT @Kathleen01930
The cover, so you can recognise the book! Click on the cover to get it at Amazon for 99¢ and equivalents.
The first review of IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID
a Rhodes Scholar
Education in One Hour is in!“André Jute writes with great clarity and brevity to deliver a credible and creditable history of western economic theory and actuality in less than 21,000 words. If you know nothing about economics, this booklet is a great way to get started. If you know a bit, this well-structured synopsis is an invaluable aid to organizing what you know into a more coherent whole.”
— Bob Fitzconner ...read more
I'm proud to say that two of my books are also available at a special price in support of promoting Andre's grand gesture in civics, above. Here are my tweets about them:REQUIEM AT #MONZA reduced to £1.92 save £4. http://www.amazon.co.uk/REQUIEM-MONZA... Celebrating launch of IT'S THE #ECONOMY, STUPID http://www.amazon.co.uk/ECONOMY-STUPI... #RT
IDITAROD is also £1.92 but today and tomorrow are special to this novel, so you can grab it free too:
#FREE for test day at #LeMans only! LE MANS a novel by Dakota Franklin. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view... use code ZN96K Enjoy! SAVE $10 #RT
Not that I had anything to do with the decision, but I woulda voted for it if they asked me!
Thanks, Dakota! You can come again! It looks like your grand gesture has borne fruit, witness the review below. Every bit helps to attract attention to a necessary, but not necessarily popular, book. I love "Andre's grand gesture in civics".
This book belongs in every school libraryIT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID a Rhodes Scholar Education in One Hour by Andre Jute
5 Star Review by Matthew "The Dean" Posner
In this slim volume, Andre Jute presents the entire history of Western economic theory and practice, from ancient times and the barter economy, through mercantilism, capitalism, the industrial revolution, and Marxism up to the present day. Everything is explained concisely, briefly, and with the authority that comes with the author's dominant intellect and years of observation and serious thought. The explanations are as clear as is possible given the premise of condensing such complex subject matter into such a small package.
As a teacher and college instructor, I can't properly express what a useful tool this book is for me. Not only does it fill in the gaps in my knowledge, but it is structured ideally for students to digest in small, orderly blocks, with all the key names and terms in bold type. This layout is ideal for my college students who are intelligent but have limited time and would eschew a more detailed account. The book is also ideal for my high school students who are seeking simplified explanations for use in their social studies classes. This book belongs in every high school library.
Andre Jute is known for his strong opinions and his great rhetorical power. His interpretations and perspectives may be problematic for some readers. As for me, though, I find that Andre Jute is persuasive and deeply credible, page after page.
-- found at http://www.amazon.com/ECONOMY-STUPID-...
What do they mean, these Popular Highlights fromStieg Larsson Man, Myth & Mistress?
Readers with Kindles have their highlights collated and counted by Amazon, and sometimes published on the page of the book in which the annotation is made. Here are some for Stieg Larsson Man, Myth & Mistress:
an intellectual should count his enemies with pride as the measure of his righteousness, and if he finds none backtrack to when he sold out.
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Grisham doesn’t have something else that great writers whose books survive to become literature must have: he doesn’t touch some important universal human experience.
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Then the blogs, particularly powerful in America, joined in.
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success of his Millennium Trilogy is the true expression and proof of the power of consumer choice.
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novels with so many obvious faults manage at the same time to please so much.
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What saved these publishers’ investments, and turned Larsson into a worldwide phenomenon, was that the internet reached maturity as everyman’s voice a few years earlier.
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Normally what happens with a novel, including a thriller, is that the author ‘writes himself into’ the story,
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stylistic mode and an equilibrium relation to his characters that will endure to the end, then returns to cut away the false trails near the beginning,
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Suddenly there were five million Kindles out there, each in the hands of a reader wielding direct purchasing power entirely independent of what publishers decided to send to bookstores, entirely independent of what bookstores decided to give shelf space to, entirely independent of what their self-appointed betters though they should be reading, deciding for themselves on the large samples from books, including the Millennium Trilogy, that Amazon made available free of charge.
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There is no reason to doubt Larsson was disgusted by violence against women, but that merely makes him decent, it doesn’t make him a feminist.
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They mean that mant people don't know how to turn off 'share highlights' :)
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