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Summary: Geoff Leach Is A Fraud
Review: ...Writing in The Southampton Press, the noted writer Fred Volkmer observed:"Mr. Cummings has written a very funny book. He dedicates it to the memory of that master of satire, Kingsley Amis, who is "Always immortal" One discerns the Amis touch in his comic portrayal of the much put-upon Joe Forcione...But one also senses the spirit of Joseph Heller hovering over Mr. Cummings' zany characters. He has also written a very thoughtful book, probing at the very core of the fear that is one of the wellsprings of religious yearning and philosophical thought. The Immortalists also gives us a glimpse of the future of publishing. It is published by InPrint.com, which, unlike other internet publishers, is a legitimate publishing enterprise and not a vanity press." Read this hysterically funny book for yourself ... Renata Goldfarb
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Summary: Derivative
Review: Cummings abuses this forum by making up reviews, forging names, and attributing 5-star ratings to this derivative, not very interesting book. He couldn't get it p[ublished by a regular publisher, but he tries to make you think it's the hottest thing around. I read it, and it was so far-fetched that it sounded like a bad imitation of bad science fiction.
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Summary: ...quixotic and [appealing]
Review: Surrealistic and quixotic are descriptive terms that came to mind as I read The Immortalists. But the contemporary issues were real enough and the characters clearly defined in this work of fiction.
Joe Forcione is wealthy, successful, living his dream life in the East Hamptoms with a young and [physically attractive] wife. He's proud of his palatial beach home and pleased that his investments have accumulated into the multi millions. But Joe is sixty. The vicissitudes of age are taking over. He turns to a phallic implant and viagra to offset his impotence, consults a priest dispensing healing miracles for dental bone loss, but what can Joe do to achieve immortality? He does not want to die. Of all spectres, past or present, Joe Forcione fears death.
Joe's quest - and a large chunk of his money - takes him around the world. He has sheep gland injections in an exclusive Swiss clinic and invests in various life enhancing or prolonging techniques. Perhaps he can escape death through cryogenics or cloning! The sky's the limit if you have the cash to buy it. Joe's mood improves along with his hope of finding eternal youth and escaping death. Soon he has a pregnant wife and mistress, an increasing [physical] appetite encouraged by a wandering eye, and a whole new set of problems to resolve.
The characters in this book are not caricatures. Joe Forcione is a typical American in search of ever increasing wealth and all the trappings money can buy. And I particularly liked Father McDermott, the healing priest with feet of clay, who moonlights as an actor and enjoys quality time with his mistress every chance he gets. There is humor in this book as well as surrealistic science fiction, and an underlying truth that all humans must eventually face. Nothing is permanent.
Recommended for mature audiences due to strong [physical]content.
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Summary: ...quixotic and [appealing]
Review: Surrealistic and quixotic are descriptive terms that came to mind as I read The Immortalists. But the contemporary issues were real enough and the characters clearly defined in this work of fiction.
Joe Forcione is wealthy, successful, living his dream life in the East Hamptoms with a young and [physically attractive] wife. He's proud of his palatial beach home and pleased that his investments have accumulated into the multi millions. But Joe is sixty. The vicissitudes of age are taking over. He turns to a phallic implant and viagra to offset his impotence, consults a priest dispensing healing miracles for dental bone loss, but what can Joe do to achieve immortality? He does not want to die. Of all spectres, past or present, Joe Forcione fears death.
Joe's quest - and a large chunk of his money - takes him around the world. He has sheep gland injections in an exclusive Swiss clinic and invests in various life enhancing or prolonging techniques. Perhaps he can escape death through cryogenics or cloning! The sky's the limit if you have the cash to buy it. Joe's mood improves along with his hope of finding eternal youth and escaping death. Soon he has a pregnant wife and mistress, an increasing [physical] appetite encouraged by a wandering eye, and a whole new set of problems to resolve.
The characters in this book are not caricatures. Joe Forcione is a typical American in search of ever increasing wealth and all the trappings money can buy. And I particularly liked Father McDermott, the healing priest with feet of clay, who moonlights as an actor and enjoys quality time with his mistress every chance he gets. There is humor in this book as well as surrealistic science fiction, and an underlying truth that all humans must eventually face. Nothing is permanent.
Recommended for mature audiences due to strong [physical]content.
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Summary: The Immortalists by Richard Cummmings Is A Winner
Review: The Immortalists by Richard Cummings is one of the most entertaining novels I have read in ages. It's like going to a dazzling movie. The writing is fantastic. It whips along without any dull moments. Its exploration of various realms of human nature (fear of death, sexual passion, etc.) is both exhilarating and hilarious. The characters are amazing. The protagonist, Joe Forcione, the self-made millionaire determined to defeat old age, disease and death is totally believable, as is Father Malachy McDermott, the brilliant priest who discovers the power to heal but who is led astray by his earthly desires. I loved the book. So will you.
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Summary: The Sexiest Book Around
Review: The Immortalists is the sexiest book around. It's got everything from immoral priests to erotic dominatrixes to nutty Korean scientists, with plenty of action. This is great fun, a romp that sends up the quest for eternal youth and endless gratification. Much of the action takes place in the Hamptons, where the self-indulgent thrive and blow off steam. It's a cross between Ray Bradbury and the Marquis de Sade. It's like a smash reality t.v. show about sex. You will love this book, I promise. Don't miss it.
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Summary: The Immortalists by Richard Cummings is Fantastic!
Review: The Immortalists, by Richard Cummings, is a brilliant and hystrically funny and sexy romp involving the pursuit by Joe Forcione, a self-made millionaire, for eternal youth and immortality. Imaginative and endlessly entertaining, this superbly written page-turner will keep you laughing and guessing until the very end. Yet, beneath the comic facade, The Immortalists raises profound questions about the meaning of life, how spirituality sustains us, and the folly of the human quest for perfection. Don't miss this book. Gower Leconfield
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Summary: Interesting little book
Review: This one is hard to describe. It's fast-paced to the point of
being hyperkinetic pinball. One short, furious chapter after
another. Superficially, it's a very bawdy satire. Underneath,
there is a lot of serious stuff--rich people with no sustaining
religious beliefs, who are terrified of death, and will do
anything to stay alive, including having their heads cut off
and frozen solid right after they die, in the hope that someday
in the future science can no only thraw them out, but regrow
them a new body. The wonders of nanotechnology--at least in the
far, far future. These pitiful people run around spending fortures trying to cheat death, and filling their days with little more than sex. Not a perfect book by any means, and
indeed a bizarre one, but worth taking a look at if you
are interested in crazed people running for their lives from
the Grim Reaper.
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