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The Faulty Process of Electing a Senior Class President
Two candidates no one wants to vote for...
An election the students want to forget about...
A story everyone can identify with.
United Exceptionalism is known far and wide as being the greatest prep school. In recent years, however, it has begun to suffer, and its problems fall on the shoulders of the senior class president. The school desperately needs someone who will offer solutions. Instead, the students find themselves having to choose between two kids who are widely disliked and constantly surrounded in scandal. It will be a year that no one at United Exceptionalism will ever forget.
The Faulty Process of Electing a Senior Class President is satire based on the recent Presidential election. It combines the extended allegory of Orwell with the black humor of Vonnegut. It is not a partisan book against any one candidate or political party. Rather, it is a call to change a system that keeps offering bad choices. It is also a reminder that no matter how old you are you should expect better from your leaders.
An election the students want to forget about...
A story everyone can identify with.
United Exceptionalism is known far and wide as being the greatest prep school. In recent years, however, it has begun to suffer, and its problems fall on the shoulders of the senior class president. The school desperately needs someone who will offer solutions. Instead, the students find themselves having to choose between two kids who are widely disliked and constantly surrounded in scandal. It will be a year that no one at United Exceptionalism will ever forget.
The Faulty Process of Electing a Senior Class President is satire based on the recent Presidential election. It combines the extended allegory of Orwell with the black humor of Vonnegut. It is not a partisan book against any one candidate or political party. Rather, it is a call to change a system that keeps offering bad choices. It is also a reminder that no matter how old you are you should expect better from your leaders.
270 pages, Paperback
Published January 19, 2017
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Chris Dietzel
31 books424 followersChris graduated from Western Maryland College (McDaniel College). He currently lives in Florida. His dream is to write the same kind of stories that have inspired him over the years.
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Dietzel is a huge fan of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) and mixed martial arts (MMA). He trained in BJJ for ten years, earning the rank of brown belt, and went 2-0 in amateur MMA fights before an injury ended his participation in contact sports.
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Sign up for his mailing list to receive updates on future projects and some neat freebies: http://chrisdietzel.com/mailing_list/
In his free time, Chris volunteers for a Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) program for feral cats. (If you would like more information on how best to care for abandoned and feral cats in your neighborhood, please check out the Alley Cat Allies website at: http://www.alleycat.org/)
Dietzel is a huge fan of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) and mixed martial arts (MMA). He trained in BJJ for ten years, earning the rank of brown belt, and went 2-0 in amateur MMA fights before an injury ended his participation in contact sports.
It is incredibly difficult for new authors to gain an audience. If you read one of his books and enjoyed it, please recommend it to anyone else you think may like them.
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February 10, 2017
[ February 10, 2017 ]
Those who read the book might like to know that one of the main characters, Reginald Cript, is now on Twitter – @TheRealCript –, and he’s tweeting some crazy shit.
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[ January 19, 2017 ]
Today, the day of publication, I received my accolade from Amazon as a serious reviewer. After I posted the below text I received a mail from them to the effect that the review cannot be posted due to profane or obscene content. I can't tell how proud this made me...
But since I'm such a nice guy, and really like to help the book, I re-phrased and posted again. Anyone with similar issues might like to follow this replacement strategy:
shit → siht
puke → pkue
goddamned bastard → godnamed bastrad
... you get the dirft
PS. Old Phoebe, my little sister, always tells me to stop swearing. I should have fucking listened to her.
__________
[ December 20, 2016 ]
It’s December now and all, and it’s cold as a witch’s teat around here, and before this year is over I have to write this review of a book I read last month. I’m not quite sure why I always do that, because I’m quite illiterate. But I read a lot. On top of that it’s my birthday today, if you want to know the truth, and I got all these presents. Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad. And this crazy telephone keeps ringing the whole time and people congratulate me for getting a year older, like it is an accomplishment or something, and they want to know how I am doing and all that.
Anyway, this book. It’s about a school not much unlike Pencey prep where I got kicked out, or any other school, you know, with people who are nice and all, and other people who are not nice at all. The school here is called “United Exceptionalism Academy for Boys and Girls”, and they make it sound like it’s the most thrilling school in town. And they boast about their achievements and stuff, but their students don’t even get a nice laptop for their studies like in other schools. And sometimes they sent their football team out and they were beating the shit out of the students of another school, just because. It’s depressing as hell, if you want to know the truth.
Now, when the book starts they are going to elect the next senior class president. It’s quite a big deal at United Ex because this president is the most powerful person in school–don’t ask me why. And because of that every student in school, even freshmen, can participate in the selection and has a vote. You would think it would be easy then to find the leader. Just make a cross next to the name you want, let the votes be counted and the candidate with the most votes will win. But it’s a helluva lot more complicated than that. If you want to hear about it you have to read the book.
Anyway, in the end there are only two candidates left to vote for, a boy and a girl. But they are the ones nobody wanted in the first place. How crazy is that? And the most goddamned bastard of them all won the election! It made me want to puke my guts out. It really did. The book ends after the election, but I think this new class president will ruin things for their fine school. It’s making me blue as hell. I’m glad I don’t have to study there.
Don’t get me wrong. The book itself is terrific and it really knocked me out. It reads like a breeze and there is a lot of funny stuff too in it and it made me laugh. And I have one of those very lout, stupid laughs. The author is a friend of mine and he has sent me a copy before it gets published next month so I can proof-read it before anyone else. That was damn nice of him.
H.C.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Those who read the book might like to know that one of the main characters, Reginald Cript, is now on Twitter – @TheRealCript –, and he’s tweeting some crazy shit.
__________
[ January 19, 2017 ]
Today, the day of publication, I received my accolade from Amazon as a serious reviewer. After I posted the below text I received a mail from them to the effect that the review cannot be posted due to profane or obscene content. I can't tell how proud this made me...
But since I'm such a nice guy, and really like to help the book, I re-phrased and posted again. Anyone with similar issues might like to follow this replacement strategy:
shit → siht
puke → pkue
goddamned bastard → godnamed bastrad
... you get the dirft
PS. Old Phoebe, my little sister, always tells me to stop swearing. I should have fucking listened to her.
__________
[ December 20, 2016 ]
It’s December now and all, and it’s cold as a witch’s teat around here, and before this year is over I have to write this review of a book I read last month. I’m not quite sure why I always do that, because I’m quite illiterate. But I read a lot. On top of that it’s my birthday today, if you want to know the truth, and I got all these presents. Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad. And this crazy telephone keeps ringing the whole time and people congratulate me for getting a year older, like it is an accomplishment or something, and they want to know how I am doing and all that.
Anyway, this book. It’s about a school not much unlike Pencey prep where I got kicked out, or any other school, you know, with people who are nice and all, and other people who are not nice at all. The school here is called “United Exceptionalism Academy for Boys and Girls”, and they make it sound like it’s the most thrilling school in town. And they boast about their achievements and stuff, but their students don’t even get a nice laptop for their studies like in other schools. And sometimes they sent their football team out and they were beating the shit out of the students of another school, just because. It’s depressing as hell, if you want to know the truth.
Now, when the book starts they are going to elect the next senior class president. It’s quite a big deal at United Ex because this president is the most powerful person in school–don’t ask me why. And because of that every student in school, even freshmen, can participate in the selection and has a vote. You would think it would be easy then to find the leader. Just make a cross next to the name you want, let the votes be counted and the candidate with the most votes will win. But it’s a helluva lot more complicated than that. If you want to hear about it you have to read the book.
Anyway, in the end there are only two candidates left to vote for, a boy and a girl. But they are the ones nobody wanted in the first place. How crazy is that? And the most goddamned bastard of them all won the election! It made me want to puke my guts out. It really did. The book ends after the election, but I think this new class president will ruin things for their fine school. It’s making me blue as hell. I’m glad I don’t have to study there.
Don’t get me wrong. The book itself is terrific and it really knocked me out. It reads like a breeze and there is a lot of funny stuff too in it and it made me laugh. And I have one of those very lout, stupid laughs. The author is a friend of mine and he has sent me a copy before it gets published next month so I can proof-read it before anyone else. That was damn nice of him.
H.C.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
December 7, 2016
The Faulty Process of Electing a Senior Class President by Chris Dietzel is a satire on the recent election and did it pretty good, right down to the press. It didn't seem to take political sides just gave the reader dark humor and wit. I was given a free copy and the review is voluntary. I found for what this book is meant to show, it does. We have an electoral system that is weak to broken. We need a better system. This is not my kind of book that I would normally read so my interest wasn't there as it should have been. But for what the book was made to be, it achieved it's purpose.
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February 10, 2017I hope everyone enjoys reading my latest book as much as I enjoyed writing it. I hadn't originally planned on writing "The Faulty Process..." but it kept calling to me until I finally had to put aside the other project I was working on in order to create this story.
December 7, 2016
Loved this. I had reservations because anything dealing with politics is going to be polarizing but the author makes sure to never take sides and instead focuses on "the faulty process." Some of the parallels with the 2016 election were obvious. Others were more subtle. It was discouraging how closely a nightmare election between kids running for senior class president could be to the actual presidential election. If you were turned off by the debates, the candidates, the press coverage and everything inbetween, this is a must read.
December 8, 2016
This book is a home run and it hits close to home! This is an entertaining quick read about students in a privileged school electing a senior class president. It directly relates to the Presidential Election in the United States. Its amazing to read this after election day is long gone (I now realize a few truths that I hadn't before) and to see the "Faults" in our recent presidential election.
June 19, 2017
This is a very clever book. So why do i only give it 2 stars? Clever only stretches so far. The book tells the story of a senior class elections in a very exclusive school. Well, sort of. It really tells the story of this last presidential campaign and election we just lived through, it just sets it in a high school. You have a girl who wears nothing but pant suits. A traditionalist candidate who no one can stand and another loose cannon candidate who does everything wrong and keeps gaining in the polls. As i said, it's very clever. The problem is we all know the story already. After a while the novelty wears off and you get bored. At least i did.
October 24, 2017
kindle unlimited but got it on a freebie day, depressingly familiar {was in Iowa during Caucus} need to find time to read through The Theta Timeline, one of his other books. Again, well done, just depressingly familiar.
Two candidates no one wants to vote for. An election the students want to forget about. A story everyone can identify with.
United Exceptionalism is known far and wide as being the greatest prep school. In recent years, however, it has begun to suffer, and its problems fall on the shoulders of the senior class president. The school desperately needs someone who will offer solutions. Instead, the students find themselves having to choose between two kids who are widely disliked and constantly surrounded in scandal. It will be a year that no one at United Exceptionalism will ever forget.
The Faulty Process of Electing a Senior Class President is satire based on the recent Presidential election. It combines the political allegory of Orwell with the dark humor of Vonnegut. It is not a partisan book against any one candidate or political party. Rather, it is a call to change a system that keeps offering bad choices. It is also a reminder that no matter how old you are you should expect better from your leaders.
Two candidates no one wants to vote for. An election the students want to forget about. A story everyone can identify with.
United Exceptionalism is known far and wide as being the greatest prep school. In recent years, however, it has begun to suffer, and its problems fall on the shoulders of the senior class president. The school desperately needs someone who will offer solutions. Instead, the students find themselves having to choose between two kids who are widely disliked and constantly surrounded in scandal. It will be a year that no one at United Exceptionalism will ever forget.
The Faulty Process of Electing a Senior Class President is satire based on the recent Presidential election. It combines the political allegory of Orwell with the dark humor of Vonnegut. It is not a partisan book against any one candidate or political party. Rather, it is a call to change a system that keeps offering bad choices. It is also a reminder that no matter how old you are you should expect better from your leaders.
July 15, 2017
I'd expected better. With a real election that was too stupid for high school, I'd hoped these few hundred pages of thinly veiled rehash of the election would have a sharper wit. It does a great job of driving home that the system doesn't produce any candidates anyone wants, but only people who'd been in a coma for most of 2016 didn't already know this. I kept slogging on, through hoping that the dramatization of the next scandalous event would somehow be something more, somthing funnier, than the real thing.
But like the real election, now that it's all over, I can see how it happened, but I'm still annoyed at how much of my time this ate.
But like the real election, now that it's all over, I can see how it happened, but I'm still annoyed at how much of my time this ate.
November 7, 2017
Oh my goodness, I'm dying. This book is so hilarious. Even if you only vaguely paid attention to the shitshow that was our election, you'll see all the thinly veiled situations here. The candidates are pretty easy to figure out who they are, the same scenarios are laid out (down to the election being won because of the "homeroom system".
The veiling was thin on purpose, which actually makes it that much funnier.
But I didn't laugh. Because it still sucks that this is our reality.
The veiling was thin on purpose, which actually makes it that much funnier.
But I didn't laugh. Because it still sucks that this is our reality.
June 15, 2017
A tough reminder of the real situation.
The writing was good. The topic...not so much. I didn't need this reminder of the last months. Still watching the real thing play out. Sad!
The writing was good. The topic...not so much. I didn't need this reminder of the last months. Still watching the real thing play out. Sad!
October 23, 2017
A satire that will remind you of every step in the election process we just endured in this country. It will make you laugh aloud - and maybe cringe a little too. The author is an equal opportunity satirist - no one escapes!
February 12, 2018
Waste of Time
Poorly written and unbelievable this is an allegory and blatant ripoff of the 2017 US presidential election. I really disliked this book and found myself skipping pages at a time. Skip it. I wish I had.
Poorly written and unbelievable this is an allegory and blatant ripoff of the 2017 US presidential election. I really disliked this book and found myself skipping pages at a time. Skip it. I wish I had.
June 26, 2017
This was a pretty fun read, I thought all the names were clever and the author did a pretty good job transferring all the political stuff of the 2016 election to a high school
October 23, 2017
Just like real life National Politics...only in America
Just watch the today's headlines and in won't be hard to figure out where the storyline originated.!!! ONLY IN AMERICA..Huh?
Just watch the today's headlines and in won't be hard to figure out where the storyline originated.!!! ONLY IN AMERICA..Huh?
November 1, 2017
A pretty astute account/spoof of recent events! I enjoyed the book in spite of sad topic ...looking forward to reading more from Chris Dietzel!
November 2, 2017
Great book!
Takes a real current event, making fiction follow reality. Proves that truth can be stranger than fiction. I liked the irony!
Takes a real current event, making fiction follow reality. Proves that truth can be stranger than fiction. I liked the irony!
February 27, 2018
Nailed it!
If you honestly want to know "What Happened" this book is the one to read.
If you honestly want to know "What Happened" this book is the one to read.
July 21, 2018
Hilarious parody that mirrors the 2016 elections. Well done, easy read, and funny!
August 4, 2021
I could not stop laughing out loud. No better way to describe the circus that was 2016 election than to compare it with a high school election. This book deserve the valedictorian of books.
January 9, 2017
"It created leaders."
A satirical look at the U.S. electoral system. The United Exceptionally Academy for Boys and Girls is an elite school attended only by the rich and privileged. To give more than just a good, all round education it aims to prepare students for real life by holding elections to select one of their number to become the Senior Class President with actual power within the school decision-making process.
The story follows the progress of the elections - the candidates themselves, the electioneering, press coverage, dirty tricks and the voting rounds themselves - from the initial declaration of prospective candidates to the final assumption of the winner. In many ways, it was cleverly done as it paralleled actual events: the idea of a previous President, one Jorge M. Shrub, who had invaded a neighbouring public school, sending the football team to beat up their students and smash their buildings, over a supposed small attack on the janitor ( which later is shown not to have been caused by them, anyway), is delicious.
However, for this reader, at least the candidates were just that tiny bit too grotesque and the humour (which, given the subject matter could have stood alone with only the tiniest exaggeration) was too childishly lavatorial so that it became tedious and I found myself skimming sections: not a good sign.
Worth a read? Well, yes and no. It is a quick and easy read. As a parody it is excellent and well worth pursuing; but with the crude, childish images probably best enjoyed by youngsters.
A satirical look at the U.S. electoral system. The United Exceptionally Academy for Boys and Girls is an elite school attended only by the rich and privileged. To give more than just a good, all round education it aims to prepare students for real life by holding elections to select one of their number to become the Senior Class President with actual power within the school decision-making process.
The story follows the progress of the elections - the candidates themselves, the electioneering, press coverage, dirty tricks and the voting rounds themselves - from the initial declaration of prospective candidates to the final assumption of the winner. In many ways, it was cleverly done as it paralleled actual events: the idea of a previous President, one Jorge M. Shrub, who had invaded a neighbouring public school, sending the football team to beat up their students and smash their buildings, over a supposed small attack on the janitor ( which later is shown not to have been caused by them, anyway), is delicious.
However, for this reader, at least the candidates were just that tiny bit too grotesque and the humour (which, given the subject matter could have stood alone with only the tiniest exaggeration) was too childishly lavatorial so that it became tedious and I found myself skimming sections: not a good sign.
Worth a read? Well, yes and no. It is a quick and easy read. As a parody it is excellent and well worth pursuing; but with the crude, childish images probably best enjoyed by youngsters.
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