Madam President: The Battle of the Sexes

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Summary: Madam President: Battle of the Sexes
Review: "Madam President" is one fiction book which kept me entranced, racing to finish because I wanted to know what happened to the characters and find out exactly how this tale of two sexes would end. Each character was quite distinct. Ordinarily I don't do fiction. My favorites are biographies and history books.

Here is one literary work which warns us what can happen when society's mores swing too far one direction or another. The author's story is a pendulum parody and it reflects what can happen when things go too far one way or the other. Obviously, the pendulum swings both ways. ....Since our history seems to go in waves, it's good to have a futuristic novel based on current issues being played out in today's society.

A story which fixated me right to the chair until I finished it. Now, I'm sorry it's finished because I so enjoyed the mental sensation of peeking into the lives of the characters. I believe the author exhibits a great perspective of the whole country, understands what's colloquial where and who's what in what region of the United States. I like the fact that the Truckers were portrayed the way they are and it sure did my heart good to have those Hudnuts get their come-uppence.

It would be a great book for a movie. I could visualize everything as I went. It seems to be difficult sometimes to do that with a book. Either the author doesn't have a good handle on the location s/he is writing about or else they don't know how to relate that to the reader.

Hall made the characters and the action seem quite real. He made me remember the characters and either hate them or love them, as it should be. I could 'hear' them talk in their drawls when appropriate. I sure did find a lot of modern day speech that I recognized and felt that this author is doing for our time what other great writers [Dickens, Melville...] did for their time: capture the flavor of the speech used at the time the book was written.

Oh, boy, Wesley Hall, you sure do write a mean tale!

Rating:
Summary: Madam President: Battle of the Sexes
Review: "Madam President" is one fiction book which kept me entranced, racing to finish because I wanted to know what happened to the characters and find out exactly how this tale of two sexes would end. Each character was quite distinct. Ordinarily I don't do fiction. My favorites are biographies and history books.

Here is one literary work which warns us what can happen when society's mores swing too far one direction or another. The author's story is a pendulum parody and it reflects what can happen when things go too far one way or the other. Obviously, the pendulum swings both ways. ....Since our history seems to go in waves, it's good to have a futuristic novel based on current issues being played out in today's society.

A story which fixated me right to the chair until I finished it. Now, I'm sorry it's finished because I so enjoyed the mental sensation of peeking into the lives of the characters. I believe the author exhibits a great perspective of the whole country, understands what's colloquial where and who's what in what region of the United States. I like the fact that the Truckers were portrayed the way they are and it sure did my heart good to have those Hudnuts get their come-uppence.

It would be a great book for a movie. I could visualize everything as I went. It seems to be difficult sometimes to do that with a book. Either the author doesn't have a good handle on the location s/he is writing about or else they don't know how to relate that to the reader.

Hall made the characters and the action seem quite real. He made me remember the characters and either hate them or love them, as it should be. I could 'hear' them talk in their drawls when appropriate. I sure did find a lot of modern day speech that I recognized and felt that this author is doing for our time what other great writers [Dickens, Melville...] did for their time: capture the flavor of the speech used at the time the book was written.

Oh, boy, Wesley Hall, you sure do write a mean tale!