Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Rooster Bar |
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But, really, this is public knowledge, so Mark and Todd's "great discovery" is really not impressive.
By the way, Gordy, the retard who killed himself at the beginning of the book, had researched all this and we are supposed to think that Rackley is somehow responsible for Gordy's death (he wasn't) and that Gordy is getting justice by having his research used to expose Rackley (it isn't.) This is the central theme of the book. But again, since what Mark and Todd have revealed is basically common knowledge, and since Mark and Todd have moral liability for wasting taxpayer money, the main storyline falls flat.
Anyway, Mark and Todd steal the three million dollars from the bank class action settlement (the bank was part owned by Rackley, so they feel justified stealing from him), and Mark and Todd go off to... Senegal, to meet with Zola, who they also give some of their money to.
Click here to see the rest of this reviewThere they buy new identities to hide from the US authorities and open up a bar which they call the Rooster Bar.
Yes, they get insanely rich from their fraud, and they decide to spend their wealth living in a tiny, nasty, impoverished country, where drinking a glass of water can give you a permanent disease and the standard of living is only slightly above that of Somalia and the Sudan. Does this make any sense to you? No? Good, that shows you've been paying attention.
So Mark, Todd, and Zola live happily ever after in this third world cesspool with their millions of dollars.
(I'm sure at some point they each get bitten by a mosquito and die horribly of some jungle virus, when the only medicine the local village hospital has to offer is a bag of M&M's and a broken broom handle.)
The End.
Literary Criticism:
This book was really, really bad.
1) The main characters acted totally illogically. They didn't have to enter a life of crime. They could have been lawyers. All they had to do was wait a few months and graduate law school and pass the bar! True, they would have had debt, but many people have debt.
2) The main characters were hypocrites. Mark and Todd felt morally superior to Rackley because Rackley took student loan money under false pretenses. Well, guess what, Mark and Todd did too; with their low test scores they should have known they had no business being in law school.
3) Irrelevant plots. Big chunks of this book had nothing to do with a legal thriller. Gordy the retarded guy sucked up 70 pages. There were pages and pages of meaningless email exchanges with loan officers. Zola's adventure in Senegal had nothing to do with the main storyline.
4) The main plot felt small. The main plot, of Mark and Todd illegally practicing law, netted very little money before they were caught. So what was the point of it? Answer: There was none.
5) Shallow characters. Mark and Todd felt completely interchangeable. None of the other characters had any real personalities.
The entire premise of this book was uninteresting and made no sense. I'm sure it will get a million five star reviews on Amazon.com.
