if he isn't so already. If he needs help establishing factual talking points, I'm sure there are many here and elsewhere that would welcome the opportunity of helping him establish them. This will be especially important if the 'week of truth' is successful. Hopefully he will review the comments regarding his interview with hostile host McConnell at this blog: http://www.911blogger.com/node/15039

from weekoftruth.org

April 16th - 22nd <-- THIS IS NOW!
A Nationally Coordinated 9/11 Truth Effort to
BREAK THE CORPORATE MEDIA BLOCKADE!

This is the first in a series of Week of Truth events to coalesce the power of the national truth movement. Following this Week of Truth action, we will draw attention to two major 9/11 conferences in the Northeast to be tentatively scheduled in the month of May.

The current installment of the Week of Truth features New York Times Best Selling Author, Steve Alten and his new book, The Shell Game. Our effort is to be a focused, movement wide attempt to bring The Shell Game into the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List.

How To Do It <-- BUY AT LEAST ONE COPY OF THE SHELL GAME AT AMAZON OR IN BOOKSTORES NOW

To achieve our goal, weekoftruth.org is launching with this, our first project, The National The Shell Game Buy In Week of Truth, April 16th – 22nd, 2008. The New York Times Best Seller List and this is s based upon a book's sales from specific book sellers--namely, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders--during weekly Wednesday thru Tuesday reporting periods. We have thus chosen this one-week period, 4/16-22, during which we will really focus our effort and draw out the combined strength of the Truth Movement by taking one coordinated action. To help out, we ask of you the following:

1) During the week of April 16-22, buy at least two copies of The Shell Game to give out to friends who are not 9-11 aware.

2) IMPORTANT! You must purchase your copies of The Shell Game from a book seller who reports book sales to the New York Times. These include Borders, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.com.

For your convenience, we will provide a link, during the Week of Truth, to make your purchase through this website, so that commission from these book sales will go directly to the Feal Good Foundation.

Our Goal <-- STEVE ALTEN HAS PROVEN THAT HE USES MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES TO TALK DEEPLY ABOUT 9-11 TRUTH

To propel The Shell Game into the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List. To achieve this URGE all your contacts to buy multiple copies of 9/11 truth telling novel - The Shell Game - between April 16 to 22nd, the focused week when the NY Times list will count those sales.

Reading the book will be an eye opener for those Americans who have never been exposed to 9-11 truth. Being in the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List will bring 9-11 truth to many more readers but additionally, has far more potential in the form of positive media exposure.

An author who finds his/her book in the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List has many perks and opportunities which perpetuate and expand on the success of the book. For example:

Top 10 books and authors get premium placement and shelf space in the front of the store.

Major merchandise outlets like Wal-Mart and drug chains purchase their inventory directly off the the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List.

Mainstream television and radio shows shop for guests from the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List. Top 10 status will generally get the author mainstream television and radio exposure. Steve Alten has pledged to bring 9-11 truth to the audiences of these programs if given the opportunity.
Due to the fact that Steve Alten has interwoven key 9-11 facts into his novel, a successful campaign of this sort will bring the issue of 9-11 to the forefront of the minds of many Americans. Steve has pledged that if given the opportunity, he will do just that. Take a look at his recent appearance on The Coffee Shop with Monica Malpass on ABC Channel 6 in Philadelphia. We can expect a lot more of this if The Shell Game reaches the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List.

With you in SOLIDARITY,
Bruno
WeAreChangeLA

It reminds me of how the Scientologists would buy up all of L. Ron Hubbard bent science-fiction just to show that he's a bestselling author. This whole idea seems the product of some juvenile mind. It would make more sense if Alten were a particularly cogent, persuasive voice for 911 Truth, but he is mediocre at best. So count me in for 911 Truth - count me out on "Weak Of Truth" and supporting Alten's badly written book

Here is what I wrote about "The Shell Game" on DissidentVoice.org

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I’m fascinated and well-read in 911 Truth and Peak Oil subjects both, but ‘The Shell Game’ is an instantly forgettable formulaic construction of pulp fiction. The tone of the writing is low-calibre. The essential ideas involved in 911 Truth and Peak Oil are not explored well at all. The novel completely fails to warn, educate or prompt the reader’s deeper reflection because the story does not grab the reader like quality writing does.

I think I must be handicapped for having developed an appreciation for the art form of telling a story with depth, intelligence and detail - because, in comparison to well-crafted literature, Alten’s plot and style are little more than script-jottings for a second-rate action film proposal.

Each “chapter” is no more than about 2-3 pages. Short as they are, chapters are even further broken up into widely separated scenes of a few short paragraphs, each one irritatingly written in the present tense (the constant one-dimensional drone of present tense is what makes this pulp read like a template for a cheap movie).

A fragmented, jumbled story-style actually works in literature when each of the segments has enough crafted personality to survive for more than a few milliseconds in the reader’s mind. When crafted properly, the fragments of such a story are pieced together in the reader’s mind like a puzzle being solved - until the denouement when suddenly everything becomes clear. However, Alten abuses this writing style to stultifying extremes. He doesn’t even bother to create a puzzle, instead he produces a kaleidoscopic shattering of broken story shards that fails to live up to its promise as a “window” through which readers may examine the murk of our mysterious recent political history. The fractured style of the novel itself creates a disjointed shell game of story line that buries any hope for clearer perception of the deep politics behind 911 or Peak Oil . I surmise that Alten employed the fragmented style of “The Shell Game” in order to hide his inability to create a sense of authenticity.

“The Shell Game” is touted as a “political thriller” but the novel does not possess any political intelligence - nor wit, nor any superior background knowledge of how the real military industrial complex works, nor of how a shadow government MIGHT have conceivably conducted a false-flag psyop on American soil. But, you know what? The book DOES have excellent cover art. The picture on the cover with the words “The Shell Game” emblazoned over it, is about the most politically intelligent thing in (or on) the novel. One doesn’t need to crack it open to learn much more than what the graphic designer accomplished.

Let’s look at one of “The Shell Game’s” story fragments. At one point, the protagonist, Ace Futrell, takes a plane to Riyadh, SA in order to enter a large bank. He plans to surreptiously insert a CD-ROM containing Promis software into an ordinary desk computer found on the the bank’s main customer service floor.

This Promis software on the CD-ROM will infiltrate the bank’s money centers around the world (and those of other banks too), stealing billions (even trillions) of dollars (from only the bad guys’ accounts, of course) for the express purpose of funding clean energy alternatives to fossil fuels thereby defeating the evil US political establishment, American oil cartels and other bad actors. This is the kind of plot one might find in a cartoon! Especially since none of the prior story dealt with Ace’s ability to program the Promis software to do what he desired it to do.

When Ace gets into the bank in Riyadh, he is greeted by a Saudi bank manager who queries Ace about his business objectives in the country. Ace says that he is engaged ina $2 billion/yr sports memorabilia business and produces one of his company’s latest products - a piece of gum “that will give you the freshest breath in the bank”. He urges the bank manager to try a piece.

“Al-Kuwaiz unwraps it. Hesitates, then pops the yellow rectangle into his mouth. The gum is laced with Burrundanga, a soluble powder better known in Columbia as Zombie Dust. Made from the Borrachera plant, Burrundanga has been called the world’s most dangerous drug as it leaves its victims in a virtual coma, preventing the brain from recording any and all memory until it wears off hours later.”

Make no mistake, there had been no previous reference to Burrundanga poison or Ace’s ability to obtain such a substance! Ace is just somehow able to produce it right there in the story! It’s like Looney Toons cartoons, where Dawg has the uncanny ability to suddenly produce a shotgun from behind his back to blast ol’ Foghorn Leghorn’s beak, sending it spinning around his head. This is just one bloody awful example of bad story construction in Alten’s trashy novel.

“Ace removes the CD-ROM from the John Lennon’s Greatest Hits case, along with the Yankee’s yearbook. Sliding his chair next to Al-Kuwaiz, he feigns reading the yearbook to the comatose manager as his eyes dart to the monitor. Casually, he leans under the desk, opening the computer hard drive’s CD tray. He quickly positions the CD-ROM containing the Promis worm
inside, then closes the drawer.

A command pops up in Arabic, Using the mouse, he double-clicks on the prompter, his heart pounding as the timer bar pops up, signalling that the worm is downloading.

Ace checks his watch: 10:38 a.m. Referring again to the yearbook as if it is the Koran, Ace pretends to point out passages to his Saudi Arabian zombie, silentlyurging the downloading bar to move faster–

–unaware that above his head, mounted in the ceiling behind a mirrored decoration, the bank’s security camera is recording everything.”

Later in the story, billions of dollars start disappearing from villainous huge bank accounts all over the world because of the Promis worm that Ace loaded onto the bank manager’s desktop PC - to benefit clean energy industries, notably E85 corn ethanol!

One thing is for sure: with authors like Alten around, we’ll never run short of corn! and we all know how bloody awful a solution E85 corn ethanol is to our energy problems! How very thoughtful of Alten to pull that already-proven-worthless solution out of his ass for us.

Sorry people, “The Shell Game” is a worthless book, even in it’s formulaic way. Maybe someday a more inspired writer will step up and produce a more worthy piece of historically-based fiction that explores the genuinely interesting and ominous piece of history we have been living through since the year 2000.

Before reading it, I wrote an email to George Kenney of ElectricPolitics.com suggesting that he contact Steve Alten to do an interview. Kenney has done programs covering both 911 and Peak Oil in the past. However, Kenney wrote back saying essentially the same thing - that he had bought a copy of “The Shell Game” and found the writing style “not his cup of tea”. So I hardly think that I am alone in my criticism.

Don't forget to pass this around as far and wide as you can as well. Governor Jesse Ventura getting the job done on the opposition's favorite show Hannity & Colmes. The man has a presence and poise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lUhVFpwhgE

He also has a best selling book out that has a chapter on 9/11 Truth.

My two copies. $40. That won't make or break me one way or the other. I'm sure MANY other people can say the same thing.

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #73 in Books

He's now in the top 100 books of Amazon... C'MON!!! WE CAN DO THIS!!!

Edit: Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71 in Books

Did you guys know that in Literature & Fiction overall, Steve's book is #15?

Edit: Amazon.com Sales Rank: #69 in Books

Edit: Nobody seemed to notice the image.

Edit: Amazon.com Sales Rank: #62 in Books

Edit: Amazon.com Sales Rank: #61 in Books (keeping in mind that last night, it went back up to the 70's)

Right on Orangutan,Jesse was awesome on Fox and is actually the most important "celebrity" to step up to date.I agree with you and am very hopeful that he will be a huge plus in our outreach.He's got courage and is fast on his feet,as he nimbly disabled Hannity.Where the heck is Charlie Sheen?