Army of Me [Kindle Edition]

N. Lamont Weaver (Author)

Book Description

How Powerful Can One Person Be?

In this irreverent romp, Kevin Kelvin is a child prodigy with a dream of space exploration. However, life happens and it proves to be a bizarre, twisted path to space.
Through a series of improbable adventures including: becoming the world's first trillionaire, saving the last living band of Neanderthal, inventing a genetic therapy that restores youth, becoming the dictator of Namibia, founding his own country, reviving the abandoned Space Shuttle program, weaponizing lower Earth orbit, destroying Saudi Arabia, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and developing an anti-gravity propulsion system, he is finally able to realize his dream and stand as the first man on Mars and the most powerful man on Earth.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

N. Lamont Weaver has a degree in Anthropology, but has been a small business owner for most of his life having had a Mountain Bike Touring business and a Surf shop in Cabarete, Dominican Republic. He has lived in the Dominican Republic for almost twenty years. He currently lives in the small fishing village of Bayahibe on the Caribbean side of the Dominican Republic. He and his wife Yumiko own a Stand Up Paddle Boarding tour and rental business and are trying to teach their Dominican beach dog, Bailey, how to Paddle Board.

Product Details

• File Size: 482 KB
• Print Length: 331 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 147834928X
• Publisher: Fly by Night Publishing Revised 29 August 2012; First edition (July 1, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008GOR67M
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #405,901 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars I finished it but... August 7, 2012

By Kim E. Ferraro

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After reading the mostly positive reviews I was anxious to read what was described as a fresh SciFi book. What I read was a stilted, poorly edited story with poor character development and no particular plot. I was compelled to finish it to see if the story actually went anywhere but alas it was devoid of a moral or even a nice wrap up at the end. Set in the very near future, it barely falls into the SciFi category, IMHO. Good bones of a story that needed to take more time in the telling.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Definitely not for kids August 7, 2012

By R. Sundrud

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Don't be fooled by the "bunny-slippers" beginning. Five-year-old Kevin loves his Mom and Dad and wants to make trillions so he can explore space. Even when the five-year-old runs to get a hug from the professor that is going to steal his protein-folding ideas to win a Nobel Prize, Kevin is wearing his bunny slippers. But then things leave the youth literature arena. Kevin complains about the noise his parents make when they have sex. The parents and acquaintances use the F-word whenever surprised. Around 14% there is a bloody multiple murder which includes characters we care about, maybe not a problem for those raised on video games, but definitely not suitable for all ages. Don't blame the author; he puts a knife on the cover of the book for a good reason. He should, however, have a darker beginning so that browsers don't think it's a book for their 10-year-old.

If it were just a rough-and-tumble adult adventure, I would have no problem with it. But the author fails in other ways. When the reader gets to the end of the first chapter, he/she should ask themselves, what do the main characters look like? I don't care that they're all brilliant; I want the author to create a picture for me; I want to know them.

The editing is poor. There are unnecessary carriage returns in the middle of a character's speech. Quotes are missing, and commas are way too scarce. The author violates the point of view constantly; at 2% we are in Kevin's head, then James, then back to Kevin. That prevents us from identifying with any of the characters. When the characters address each other, they constantly use each others' names. Look, for example, at the dialogue of the gay dresser (near the end of the "look inside") when he talks to Kevin's father James. Almost every single sentence uses the name of James, which is just not credible dialogue.

Kevin wants to make trillions, then spend the money on space exploration rather than on the poor. His mother calls him the worst insult possible -- a Republican! He responds by calling his mother a dumbass and gets sent to his room. His mother's remark was not meant to be humorous, though with proper treatment it might have been.

Summary: read the "look inside" completely before deciding if you want to read the novel, including the part where the parents and gay dresser break into tears of joy because they are dressed like movie stars. I downloaded the book when it was free, but I have begun to skim, which for me is the kiss of death.

Addendum: Okay, I've dropped a star. [SPOILER ALERT] Kids of all ages? When the author has [spoiler alert] Kevin shoot innocent bystanders who are recording his parents murder because they might have profit motives, has Kevin's aunt perform oral sex on a man driving a car, has Kevin get a woman drunk in order to have sex with her, has his bodyguards high-five when she tosses her panties out the car window, has a woman's breasts cut off, and for revenge has Kevin surgically cut off a man's face and make him look at it, I wonder which children you would want to read this? Look at the blurb, and then this list. I call it false advertising. There may be an audience for this book, but not the casual reader and definitely not children.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Waiting for more. August 22, 2012

By Samuel P.

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This book gets a grip on you, shakes you around and doesn't let go. Loved reading it and can't wait for the author to provide more books.

More About the Author

N. Lamont Weaver has a degree in Anthropology, but has been a small business owner for most of his life having had a Mountain Bike Touring business and a Surf shop in Cabarete, Dominican Republic. He has lived in the Dominican Republic for almost twenty years.
He currently lives in the small fishing village of Bayahibe on the Caribbean side of the Dominican Republic. He and his wife Yumiko own a Stand Up Paddle Boarding tour and rental business and are trying to teach their Dominican beach dog, Bailey, how to Paddle Board.