Reality Stars - Zack Kopp - Bog

Reality Stars is a dark joke about the common ground shared by the verbage of market research surveys and most, if not all, human belief systems, including religion, law enforcement and the government. It's a satire of dogmatic thought and the human need for proof with religion politics and popular culture as the players. As such, it has the potential to offend, but never loses sight of the nuts and bolts of humorous presentation, for all its metaphysical conjecture and taboo subject matter. Lifelong outsider Howard Plumber leaves his job at Zylon Research in Denver after an apparently psychic respondent to one of his nightly survey calls commands him to, "Write the novel!" Aspiring writer Howard sees this as a dare from God and accepts the challenge. He convinces himself that "God" is behind all wars in human history-since acts of war are generally caused or attended by sincerely-felt religious beliefs, particularly evident in the ongoing Christian-Muslim-Jewish endless three way war. On the Greyhound bus out of Denver, he conceives of a book called The War on God, making war on everything in a well-intentioned if reactionary way, as a sort of desperate peace-protest, beginning a series of false starts in this cross-country adventure.