Five Stars All Around

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MEMBERS ONLY works as an adult version of DARIUS THE GREAT.
It delivers plenty of incisive social commentary woven with witty dialogue.

The plot moves carefully and swiftly along as main character, Raj, evolves
from the boredom of the Tennis Club membership interviews to making one of those
"How could he?!?" gangsta rap comments to the black couple being interviewed.

We learn that many of his previous joking (to him) remarks have landed him in trouble,
as well his dated anthropological generalizations on the "...emptiness of Christianity...."

Soon, he is on overload with a projected job loss, exclusion from the Tennis Club,
a cancerous mole, his son's behaviors at school, stalking by a delusional student,
and the fallout from still not apologizing to the couple.

A sequel could answer why he waited so long, as well as giving readers more insight into the other main characters in his family, as well to travel with Eva.

How great it would be to have links to his lectures, to Emily Baker's poems,
and to that unforgettably brilliant talk by Cynthia Wood on Tristam Shandy!