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Say Uncle
Theodore Black has started 37 different companies in this three decades as an entrepreneur, each of which has been shut down within a year due to government investigations, negative press, or waves of sexual harassment claims. He hires his nephew, Toby, to work in company number 38 (a diet pill telemarketing business). Toby is a naive young college graduate eager to learn the keys to business success, and he rises quickly from making telemarketing calls to producing infomercials. While building the new company together, Toby and his uncle fight for the heart of the company receptionist, Linda, and struggle to ward off an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission that could land both of them in prison.
150 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 30, 2013
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Noah Goats
8 books32 followersNoah Goats is an office drone who writes in his spare time. He's married and has four kids. Now that he has them, four seems like kind of a lot. He also has a big white dog that looks like a wolf and wants to run away to live with the coyotes who populate the mountains near Goats's house. There is a cat named Remi skulking around the family home as well.
Goats has been writing for fun and no profit since he was 14. He started with comedy bits, and then moved on to poetry in college. Fortunately, none of this poetry has survived beyond one typo packed T.S. Eliot ripoff that was published in the college literary magazine. You will never read this.
He wrote a novel each year he was in law school, which is a stupid thing to do and can only negatively impact your grades and harm your chance at getting a real job in the legal profession. He self published one of these novels as Incomplete Works. He shoved the other two down the memory hole.
He's written a few more books since then, and self published one of them (Houses on the Sand). In 2016 a collection of ghost stories that he wrote with Erren Michaels (Jersey Ghost Stories) was published by The History Press in the UK.
Goats has been writing for fun and no profit since he was 14. He started with comedy bits, and then moved on to poetry in college. Fortunately, none of this poetry has survived beyond one typo packed T.S. Eliot ripoff that was published in the college literary magazine. You will never read this.
He wrote a novel each year he was in law school, which is a stupid thing to do and can only negatively impact your grades and harm your chance at getting a real job in the legal profession. He self published one of these novels as Incomplete Works. He shoved the other two down the memory hole.
He's written a few more books since then, and self published one of them (Houses on the Sand). In 2016 a collection of ghost stories that he wrote with Erren Michaels (Jersey Ghost Stories) was published by The History Press in the UK.
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November 20, 2019
Noah Goats’ comic novel is exactly the lighthearted, feel good antidote to the real world I was in the market for.
It’s fast paced and easy to get into, with an assortment of unusual characters. Several times l, as I read the book before bedtime, I had to put it down because I was laughing so hard.
I don’t want to give away anything about the plot, but I will say I’m definitely Team Linda.
It’s fast paced and easy to get into, with an assortment of unusual characters. Several times l, as I read the book before bedtime, I had to put it down because I was laughing so hard.
I don’t want to give away anything about the plot, but I will say I’m definitely Team Linda.
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