IMMORTALS

Rating:
Summary: What Would You Trade For Youthfulness?
Review: "The Immortals" by Andrew Neiderman is the story of Leon Enterprises, the manufacturer of unique youth-restoring products. Their products are expensive, are sold to a select clientele, and are sold directly at the customer's home. Mr. Leon, head of Leon Enterprises, enjoys and exercises power. He personally runs his enterprise with an iron hand and demands cult-like obedience from his employees. Faithful employees who make the required sacrifices are rewarded with renewed youthfulness, wealth, and privilege.

"The Immortals" is interesting because of its youth fixation -- a twentieth century replay of vampirism (customers' sustained youthfulness requires sustained financial drain) and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (employees' sustained youthfulness requires increasing depravation). Also, Leon Enterprises *could* be an allegory for organized crime's reputed sales of drugs like ecstasy and cocaine.

Rating:
Summary: What Would You Trade For Youthfulness?
Review: "The Immortals" by Andrew Neiderman is the story of Leon Enterprises, the manufacturer of unique youth-restoring products. Their products are expensive, are sold to a select clientele, and are sold directly at the customer's home. Mr. Leon, head of Leon Enterprises, enjoys and exercises power. He personally runs his enterprise with an iron hand and demands cult-like obedience from his employees. Faithful employees who make the required sacrifices are rewarded with renewed youthfulness, wealth, and privilege.

"The Immortals" is interesting because of its youth fixation -- a twentieth century replay of vampirism (customers' sustained youthfulness requires sustained financial drain) and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (employees' sustained youthfulness requires increasing depravation). Also, Leon Enterprises *could* be an allegory for organized crime's reputed sales of drugs like ecstasy and cocaine.