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Summary: Suspend Your Disbelief
Review: "Heroes" play an important role in our lives and in society. Where would we be with out them? We dare not even go there! But, what happens when some of our heroes are taken from us. Parents, sports celebrities, and Presidents, are a source of inspiration and hope and we suffer at their loss. Susan Sloate says that we also suffer the loss of a hero when he or she is robbed of their dignity due to false accusations and political cover-up. By writing "Forward to Camelot," she has come up with a way to give us some relief from our suffering by bringing a couple of past heroes to life and by thinking out of the box of history. I interviewed Susan Sloate on The Inside Success Show and loved every moment. She lives her passion and through her writing we all get to experience true heroes and a hope for a better world to come. I also learned:
** How Susan Sloate learned that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent
** What you can do to create the right heroes for your life
** How to co-author a book when you're 1,000 miles apart
** Why it is vitally important for you to pursue your dreams If you enjoy having heroes in your life and would like to add in others who might inspire you to live a better life, then I recommend you get this book and have a good read. Randy (Dr. Proactive) Gilbert, Host of The Inside Success Show (TheInsideSuccessShow.com) and best-selling author of "Success Bound"
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Summary: Forward To Camelot
Review: A soap-opera actress with old family tragedies is recruited for a treasure hunt that will take her back to Dallas in 1963. She agrees to go, but only if she can spend time with the father she never knew, who disappeared forever the day the president was shot. Once back in 1963, though, she will find that her beloved lost father is somehow tied to a plot that will result in the assassination of the president. She finally makes the decision to try to save the president's life - with the help of one unlikely ally: An ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald. FORWARD TO CAMELOT moves as quickly as the best thrillers do, and is crammed full of historic detail. Readers who remember 1963 will believe they are really there again. I was particularly intrigued with the characterizations of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. Both men are depicted differently in this book than in anything else I have seen, but the characterizations are so persuasive and so detailed that - who knows? - perhaps they are true. Kennedy is a sick and frail man who hides his infirmities and personal secrets under a façade of Kennedy optimism and 'vi-gah'; Oswald, far from being the crazed and sullen 'lone-nut' history has painted him, is resourceful, courageous and committed. The relationship between them is remarkably congenial. For me, one of the highlights of the book is the scene in which Cady, Kennedy and Oswald spend the night in a bomb shelter and get to know one another. All three are hiding secrets they will share with the others; all three will bond closer because of what they learn. Cady's perceptions will change sharply once she is back in 1963, and she will learn thing she regrets, but things that make her stronger. She is a character we will like at once and grow to love. This is a book that grabbed my attention from the first page to the last. I became totally immersed in the fabric of the story. Books are meant to entertain and carry the reader along on a great adventure. FORWARD TO CAMELOT did this for me, not slowing its pace for an instant. I really enjoyed the book and was sorry it had to end. This book is destined to become a classic in its genre. I highly recommend it to all who seek a challenge to their senses.
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Summary: Refreshing visit to the past
Review: Believable characters have their shot at making a difference when they are thrust into pivotal historical moments. The sense that the reader is really plunged back into the sixties era is bolstered by solid research behind the action. The exploration of the president's character is multi-faceted and sure to foster reflection about his legacy. Apart from its merits as a thoughtful book about our national character, it is a page turner that the reader will put down only with great difficulty.
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Summary: Refreshing visit to the past
Review: Believable characters have their shot at making a difference when they are thrust into pivotal historical moments. The sense that the reader is really plunged back into the sixties era is bolstered by solid research behind the action. The exploration of the president's character is multi-faceted and sure to foster reflection about his legacy. Apart from its merits as a thoughtful book about our national character, it is a page turner that the reader will put down only with great difficulty.
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Summary: One terrific read from start to finish!
Review: FORWARD TO CAMELOT is an old-fashioned, plot-heavy novel with a fabulous premise, interesting twists, thoroughly accurate history, and terrific characters. It's one of those `can't put it down' books you simply HAVE to finish -- you HAVE to know how it all turns out. The basic premise is that of an actress from the year 2000 who abruptly loses her longtime soap opera acting job but is offered a new one the same day, only this one is an expedition back in time, to November 22, 1963, to retrieve the now-priceless Bible owned by JFK that was used to swear in his successor, Lyndon Johnson, aboard Air Force One that tragic afternoon and immediately afterward was lost. The actress, whose own past contains references to the same event, finally agrees to go, believing that she might be able to change at least part of her unhappy present by journeying to the past. But once in the past, her perceptions are rudely jolted: People are not what she thought they were, and a dark and frightening mystery is unfolding around her, leading up to the day of JFK's visit to Dallas, when she finally faces up to her own responsibility to try to save him from assassination. Only one person can help her in this almost-hopeless quest: The mysterious Lee Harvey Oswald. This novel really grabbed me by the throat. If you have any interest at all in JFK's assassination, it will do the same for you, but frankly, you don't need much more than an appetite for mystery and thrills to become involved in it. It builds from the early sections, where we meet the actress, a most appealing character, to the time travel itself, to Dallas in 1963 and the growing mystery, and explodes in action and tension when we reach November 22nd. It is nothing less than a roller coaster of surprise and emotions. Main characters include JFK himself, Lee Harvey Oswald (both a lot different than I'd imagined them), Jackie Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, with cameo appearances by other famous figures (I won't give it away). Suffice it to say, I was hooked; I couldn't stop reading; and I would unreservedly recommend this novel to anyone. It's that good. I especially loved the epilogue, which describes the changes in the world and our culture because JFK (yeah, okay) doesn't die in Dallas. But how that happens, and how we as Americans change for the better, is a story you've GOT to read. Read it now. You'll love it.
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Summary: Best "What if" book I've ever read!!
Review: From the surprising, disorienting beginning through to its brilliant epilogue this book grabs you and won't let you go. I defy you to put it down once you've got 2 pages in! I was hooked straight away and I was not even that interested in JFK (being a Brit and more concerned with the controversies around the death of Princess Diana) and the conspiracies surrounding his death. This book has piqued my interest in him and his so-called assasin Lee Harvey Oswald. The book romps along at an amazing pace - and I could easily see this being made into a fantasticly tense thriller by Hollywood. It offers a controversial view - but keeps alive the debate around the mystery and is especially interesting as we have just passed the 40th anniversary of the event itself. My favourite part is the epilogue - some fascinating insights into how life in America could be so different if this murder had never taken place.
Try it and see for yourself!
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Summary: Stupid, annoying plot
Review: I bought this book as a kindness to the author, who is a member of one of my mailing lists. Thus, I felt compelled to read the entire book in order to give it a fair review. While I enjoyed one small part of the book--when the main character, Cady, becomes a telephone operator in 1963--most of it was slow-moving and silly. Watch JFK become an action hero! Watch Lee Harvey Oswald become an action hero! Of course, what can you expect about a book which states that "Oliver Stone's JFK is simply the best film ever made about those six crucial seconds in Dallas." I lived through the sixties, which was often a painful experience. The epilogue, which lets us know how much better the world is because JFK was saved (which is not giving anything away--it's stated on the front cover), gives us a trivial view of the "better" world we would have if he hadn't been assassinated. I recommend that you avoid buying this silly book and spend your money on something well-written by any of the proven science fiction authors whose work you'll find in magazines like Analog, Asimov's SF, and the Magazine of SF and Fantasy.
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Summary: More speculative fiction that amounts to little to nothing
Review: I couldn't get past page 20. I wonder if anybody will buy my copy for a nickle during my yardsale this weekend?
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Summary: Wonderful Alternative History Book!!!!!
Review: I recently read Forward To Camelot and loved it. I do not usually read books of this genre, nor do I read books in first person, but this one intrigued me. The plot read smoothly and grabbed you from the onset. I didn't feel, as most often happens in first person books, that I was only getting one person's point of view. In this book, every one had a say, in addition to the "I" of the main character. All of the characters, supporting and main, had real depth to them. I found the history in the book to be really well researched. The authors obviously did a lot of work researching the storyline. What I personally liked best was the fact that the characters were so human, complete with all the human faults and frailties. The book also upheld the idea that heroes are human too. This book had enough action in it to be a great movie and enough well-written plot to be a great read. I hope to see more books by these authors. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in politics, history and human nature.
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Summary: Interesting look at what was and what might have been.
Review: I'm a history buff -- but a JFK buff, too. I approached reading this book with the knowledge that it is fiction, yet the REAL LIFE characters living and breathing in these pages made me constantly pinch myself to pull me back into reality. And the reality is that we still ask the questions "who killed JFK?" and "what would the world have been like had he survived?" This book goes beyond answering those questions. It brings to life people we never got to know, takes us into the world of 1963 Dallas and leads us through one heart-stopping adventure right after another as Cady and Lee work together, in an unlikely pairing of heroes, to keep President Kennedy safe. I noticed the plot deals with three of the conspiracy theories in circulation, that it explores the (strong) possibility of Oswald's innocence and that it gives us what we never got to have: A real look at a living, breathing President John F. Kennedy after November 22 -- and beyond.
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