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Title: The Applicant : A Novel of Revenge by John Arthur Long ISBN: 0-9700492-7-7 Publisher: Steel Press Publishing Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Typos, run-ons, lousy prose, oh my.
Comment: Ok, first of all...the premise behind this book wasn't all bad. Sure, it has a B-movie quality about it, but that can be entertaining at times. My problems, however, lie in both the prose of this novel as well as the editing. Never in my life have I read a novel with so many typos. I doubt I read 5 sequential pages without seeing at least one typo. Not only were there many periods where there should have been question marks, and commas where there should have been periods, there were many, many misspellings. My favorite misspellings: "How are your doing?" page 372. And "petty" instead of "pretty"...as in "she had a petty nice smile", I think the phrase went. I can't find the page number for that one.

Odd/bad phrasing: "They would be able to write concise essays about death and dying on parchments made of fear". xi
"Maggie's eyes narrowed in understanding" p 199.

But I could go on and on for pages. I'm no Hemingway, but I edit for a living. Whoever edited this book was overpaid.

I'm giving this novel 2 stars simply because I actually got through it. Life is too short to read boring novels, so I usually put one down if the plot is not at least slightly interesting. That alone makes the book deserve one star above the minimum. But just one.

Rating: 5
Summary: John Arthur Long is a Genius
Comment: I just finished reading "The Applicant," and absolutely loved
it. Without a doubt far greater than "Sign of the Guardian"
and "Eve of Regression" combined. I sat in my bed shivering
late at night, and slept through my classes with nightmares during the
day. I hope that nobody else makes the movie, because when I become a
director after college, I hope to make "The Applicant" my
directorial debut. John Arthur Long, without a doubt is the greatest
author in quite a while. And I'm not just saying that because he is
my Script/Creative Writing teacher.

Rating: 5
Summary: The Applicant is A Winner
Comment: I've always been partial to novels where you see the action from the perspective of both adversaries locked in struggle. "The Applicant" puts you in the head of both the psychopathic applicant and the dedicated law enforcement officer, who both play their own cat and mouse game while simultaneously pursuing other agendas. While fast moving and highly entertaining, "The Applicant" challenges the reader with its twists and turns and thought-provoking questions.