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Attack of the 50 Ft. Democrats
Alternate Cover Edition of ISBN13: 9780989009102
Scourge Joros, billionaire political puppetmaster, has spent years manipulating America into progressivism. Now, with a supermajority in the Senate and his hand-picked, charismatic president on the verge of re-election, he is five days away from fundamentally transforming the country.
Senator Bart Brightman, a flag-waving patriot among a party of spineless Republicans, has watched his nation slip from its founding principles. Bitter and despondent, he's counting the days to retirement. But when an army of genetically-mutated fifty-foot Democrats begin to ravage the landscape, the ex-soldier is ready to fight for his country again.
Brightman soon learns that America has a bigger problem than giant Democrats--a biased media. Infatuated with their president, they protect him and his liberal agenda at all costs.
If the Democrats aren't stopped, the country is finished. But even if they are, can America survive a dishonest media?
Scourge Joros, billionaire political puppetmaster, has spent years manipulating America into progressivism. Now, with a supermajority in the Senate and his hand-picked, charismatic president on the verge of re-election, he is five days away from fundamentally transforming the country.
Senator Bart Brightman, a flag-waving patriot among a party of spineless Republicans, has watched his nation slip from its founding principles. Bitter and despondent, he's counting the days to retirement. But when an army of genetically-mutated fifty-foot Democrats begin to ravage the landscape, the ex-soldier is ready to fight for his country again.
Brightman soon learns that America has a bigger problem than giant Democrats--a biased media. Infatuated with their president, they protect him and his liberal agenda at all costs.
If the Democrats aren't stopped, the country is finished. But even if they are, can America survive a dishonest media?
250 pages, Paperback
First published March 14, 2013
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R.K. Delka
2 books4 followersR. K. Delka lives on Long Island with his wife, two children, two cats, and Cuban-bred (but not communist) Havanese.
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May 6, 2013
This is obviously a very specific kind of book. It will not change minds or ignite an intellectual discussion. It does, however, succeed for what it is: slapstick political satire. Poking fun at everything from vacuous Hollywood starlets to agenda-driven, Obama-obsessed reporters, it has a feel of a Rush Limbaugh parody or an SNL skit put into a book form. Some jokes are more accessible than others (no one but a political junkie will catch the "crease in the pants" reference), but on the whole it is very, very funny. In a manner of Family Guy, South Park (or if you prefer an older, cleaner reference, the Airplane! movies), the book throws jokes against the wall, and most of them stick. There are some decent action scenes and a couple of truly poignant moments that, though necessary for the plot, seem to belong in a more serious work, and show that the author may have potential as a thriller writer in the future.
Mostly, it's pure, light entertainment, just right for any reader who is ready for a break from dark cautionary tales that have dominated conservative/libertarian fiction in recent years. I'm giving this book 4 stars not for literary excellence but for sheer enjoyment I derived from it. If you agree with the author's politics, you are guaranteed to finish this book in better mood than when you started, and there is something to be said for that.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my depressing dystopian read...
Mostly, it's pure, light entertainment, just right for any reader who is ready for a break from dark cautionary tales that have dominated conservative/libertarian fiction in recent years. I'm giving this book 4 stars not for literary excellence but for sheer enjoyment I derived from it. If you agree with the author's politics, you are guaranteed to finish this book in better mood than when you started, and there is something to be said for that.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my depressing dystopian read...
September 14, 2015
Disclaimer:
I received a copy of the book in return for an honest review, no other remuneration has been received.
Some Thoughts:
For political satire, this book hits strongly down partisan lines. Conservative American’s will love it, liberal Americans will want to burn it, and that’s good. Pithy, witty, and hard-hitting this fictional account of one conservative Republican’s, a lone patriot in a sea of true traitors, fight to see his country restored to the ideals of the Founding Fathers but in the way are the machinations of an elite few whose only desire is to remake this nation into his vision of perfection.
While very much a fictional account, Attack of the 50ft Democrats by R.K. Delka is a work of pure political satirical genius. Both humorous and poignant, through the medium of fiction the author attempts to highlight the problem facing the United States today: A wave of liberal progressivism which is sweeping not just through our country but really the entire world and the staunch, if few in number, resistance of those who think that individuality (and individual responsibility), a truly free-market economy, and a small, limited government are things worth having, and not just having but keeping and dying to keep them if need be.
The main characters in the book are all believable, and many of them probably have real-life counterparts whom they were based off of. From Scourge Joros to Merv Nutley to Bart Brightman each character managed to represent someone or some ideal without being too ludicrously off-base or overdone. Scourge is the dark, shadowy figure pulling the socialist strings in the background. Merv Nutley is the biased reporter whose man-crush with the liberal agenda is so enormous it manifests itself by numbing his entire leg. Bart Brightman is the hero, with a military background and a patriotism so ingrained it never comes off as fake. An assortment of some over-caricatured stereotypes on both sides of the aisle makes sure all the serious action centers on the characters while still pointing out some of the worst traits of liberal ideology. From a biased media to puppet mastered politicians there is enough in this book to fill up an entire semester with discourse on the political, moral, social, and spiritual issues this nation is facing today. I plan on keeping this book in my book shelf for a long time. Even if you burn this book after reading it, my recommendation is that every politically savvy American needs to read it. This book has nailed the problem we face today, and even if you aren’t overtly political, it is still a good work of fiction with all the right elements present to keep you reading it cover-to-cover.
I received a copy of the book in return for an honest review, no other remuneration has been received.
Some Thoughts:
For political satire, this book hits strongly down partisan lines. Conservative American’s will love it, liberal Americans will want to burn it, and that’s good. Pithy, witty, and hard-hitting this fictional account of one conservative Republican’s, a lone patriot in a sea of true traitors, fight to see his country restored to the ideals of the Founding Fathers but in the way are the machinations of an elite few whose only desire is to remake this nation into his vision of perfection.
While very much a fictional account, Attack of the 50ft Democrats by R.K. Delka is a work of pure political satirical genius. Both humorous and poignant, through the medium of fiction the author attempts to highlight the problem facing the United States today: A wave of liberal progressivism which is sweeping not just through our country but really the entire world and the staunch, if few in number, resistance of those who think that individuality (and individual responsibility), a truly free-market economy, and a small, limited government are things worth having, and not just having but keeping and dying to keep them if need be.
The main characters in the book are all believable, and many of them probably have real-life counterparts whom they were based off of. From Scourge Joros to Merv Nutley to Bart Brightman each character managed to represent someone or some ideal without being too ludicrously off-base or overdone. Scourge is the dark, shadowy figure pulling the socialist strings in the background. Merv Nutley is the biased reporter whose man-crush with the liberal agenda is so enormous it manifests itself by numbing his entire leg. Bart Brightman is the hero, with a military background and a patriotism so ingrained it never comes off as fake. An assortment of some over-caricatured stereotypes on both sides of the aisle makes sure all the serious action centers on the characters while still pointing out some of the worst traits of liberal ideology. From a biased media to puppet mastered politicians there is enough in this book to fill up an entire semester with discourse on the political, moral, social, and spiritual issues this nation is facing today. I plan on keeping this book in my book shelf for a long time. Even if you burn this book after reading it, my recommendation is that every politically savvy American needs to read it. This book has nailed the problem we face today, and even if you aren’t overtly political, it is still a good work of fiction with all the right elements present to keep you reading it cover-to-cover.
September 19, 2013
A hilarious political satire.
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