The Fan Club by Irving Wallace (Epub)

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Imagine you are obsessed with a beautiful, famous actress. You know everything about her – at least, you know everything that the press, the tabloids, and the world knows about her. You think she is humble and nice and tired of living the Hollywood life. Better yet, you think she would fall for someone like you – a regular guy with a regular life. Now imagine that you told three other guys what you thought, and they all agreed – and you actually abducted this woman.

You are now in the head of the protagonist of Irving Wallace’s thriller – The Fan Club. This is not a novel for the squeamish. After the abduction, things do not go as planned. At least three of the men involved force themselves on their captive. Each has his own problems, his own psychosis – his own reasons. Each is crazy in a different way, and their prisoner? She’s not so sane herself.

The sexual situations in this novel show their roots in the cultural revolution of the 1970s. They are crude, rough, difficult to take. There are no punches pulled. The characters, while difficult to empathize with, are very believable. This novel is more a horror thriller than mainstream, but it has the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Irving Wallace, one of the most popular and talented voices in American Literature.

Soon to be an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Eric Dove.

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⭐ I remember reading naughty parts of this fairly “dirty” book as a pre-pubescent kid. My mom had it on her book shelf. I mainly ordered it for nostalgic reasons to revisit some of the passages that intrigued me before I really knew anything about sex. Reading the story as an adult is a different experience. It’s a relentless rape story, a male fantasy that grows tiresome and uncomfortable fairly quickly. All of the characters are fairly one-dimensional– the cast of “fan club” rapists as well as the movie star victim. I thought this 1970s story might have a new interpretation in reading it now, with how super stars’ privacy is constantly being invaded by ever-present cameras (not just by paid paparazzi but by random citizens as well) and social media, stolen nude selfies, etc. But it doesn’t really.

⭐ I just couldn’t wait to get to the end of this book. I found myself reading faster and faster because I wanted to know what was going to happen next! I was thoroughly enjoying the story. Until I got to the ending. And even then I thought, no, the author is just playing with us. He will take the huge holes, character flaws and procedure mistakes and twist it around to a great “GOTCHA!” But no, no gotcha. Just a very poorly written ending that destroyed a good story. And there were so many great ways that the story could have been ended but alas. It was like the author got bored or just quit caring. I was so disappointed! I debated even giving this as many as 3 stars.

⭐ I first read The Fan Club in 1980. It was a pass around paperback in my Military unit. I loved it, and have re read it countless times.Now, I’ve had the pleasure of listening to the wonderful reading by Mr. Eric Dove. He captures the personalities, voices and inflection of the characters almost exactly as I’ve envisioned them.

⭐ With all the Wallace style, sometimes crude and explicit narrative of a dream once conceived and the adventure this became, so recommendable

⭐ If this book were cut in half it might have been a great read, but it took 50% of the book just to get into the meat of the story! There was so many unnecessary details that it made the story boring. Plus a lot of philosophical mumbo jumbo that was distracting from the story. If all this were left out it would have been much much better.

⭐ Read this book way back when it was first released in the mid 80s. It was pretty good then as it was when I purchased it on Kindle just recently. I don’t know why I wanted to read it again after all this time. But I enjoyed the book, maybe even more now because kinky is much more accepted these days. Who knows, I may want to read it again in another few years.

⭐ I bought this book just to add to my library . I read it many many years ago and I was fascinated by the story . Irving Wallace is a great story teller . Read this book . You will never forget it .

⭐ George Bernard Shaw said it best! “There are two tragedies in life!””One is not to get your hearts desire!””The other is to get it!”Read the book and you will understand!

⭐ I don’t like to read a book when I can’t root for the main character. And in this book, instead of the one person I could have rooted for as the main character, Mr. Wallace has chosen to have Adam Malone, the Dreamer, as the main character. This man is the instigator of a kidnapping which turns into rape and murder and yet he is spared by the kidnapped person because she feels he saved her life or because she owed him something!! Sorry, that ruined a perfectly good story for me.I admit that from the time the kidnapping occurs to the last page, I couldn’t put this book down. Irving Wallace is my favorite author and the way he draws one in to the storyline is fabulous. And that goes for this book as well.Also, as someone who has a degree in Criminology, I found that Mr. Wallace overlooked one bit of evidence. And that is, he makes the assumption that there will be no autopsy on Mr. Shively, not a likely assumption. If there IS an autopsy, there is the question of who stabbed this man??The ending could have been just as compelling if the author had worked it out that so that were no loose ends for the reader.I would still disagree with the victims’s behavior at the end. I feel when we are victims of a crime, we should always report it to the authorities. And that should take place even if we feel the perpetrator is mentally ill, or during the commission of his crime may have saved our life! For if we don’t do that, that person could commit the same crime or another crime again! And that’s exactly what this main character begins thinking about at the close of this book. He begins to think that perhaps The Fan Club could come together again, presumably with three new members and himself, to create a similar scenario. Not OK with me!!

⭐ I read this book long long ago when I was young.Suddenly I stumbled on the kindle and lo….I read it again.This book have spicy plot only Irving Wallace can think of.I became nostalgic.Thanks to Amazon to bring back such all time favourite books on kindle.

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