If you are enjoying my lyrics,
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novels.

Here is a typical review from an average reader:

Compelling, entertaining and definitely a page-turner!
                     "I'm not an avid reader of mysteries, but Paul Rosner's "Night Train to Rangoon" was one of the most compelling novels I've come across in a long time. His multi-faceted characters are a colorful group of unlikely traveling companions who kept me guessing about their real motives til the very end. It felt like I was on that train to Rangoon with all of them. I especially appreciate great dialogue, and Mr Rosner is a master!"

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“Rosner has managed to take an old story line---the young actress fighting her way to the top---and write it with such realism that the cliché is obliterated.”
                                             Becky Saunders, Louisville Times

“…a cast of very real characters with whom you quarrel or sympathize or marvel at their cleverness or stupidity.  But there’s not one who fails to interest the reader…It’s larger than life with never a dull page nor line.”
                                            Toki S. Johnson, Pittsburgh-Courier

“…a big, panoramic novel…sharp, witty observations…Mr. Rosner has caught the flavor of the world of make believe and the essence of the unremitting drive that produces the successes, along with the frailties that defeat the also-rans.”
                                           W. Harley Rudkin, Springfield, Mass. Daily News

“…a very readable book, and one that thoroughly exploits the exotic aspects of Hollywood.”
                                           James Powers, The Hollywood Reporter

“This is a bright, original and tragic novel but at the same time it shakes and shimmers with fun, even with the dissolution of personal romance and idealism of the heroine…the most agonizingly correct slice of Hollywood since the nightmarish efforts of Nathaniel West.”
                                                Bill Garwood, Ferndale, Mi. Gazette

“The best novel ever written about Hollywood…and I mean ever.”
                                                 Jacqueline Susann, author of Valley of the Dolls
 
 

                       "It is 1968 in Elm City Estates. You remember Elm City Estates. The perfect
                       American suburb. Pete and Gladys live there. So do Donna and Alex. Dr. Welby practices
                       medicine there. Calvin does all the handiwork, and Josephine the plumbing. Doves fly out of
                       kitchen cabinets, and roses suddenly appear in glasses of stomach remedies.

                       Ann and George live there, too. And tonight's their daughter's debut as a Talking Onion.

                       But then Errol Lobkins, fleeing from the police for walking his dog at the wrong hour, arrives, and
                       you will not believe what is about to happen in this ideal community.

                       A brilliant, stinging, erotic satire of how America turned into what it is today."

                 Welcome To The Hotel California, August 7, 2001
                              Reviewer: Francis J. McInerney (see more about me) from Commonwealth
                              "If Elm City Estates had a Hotel near it or within its confines, the Hotel the Eagles brought
                     us would fit nicely. This book does not push the famous envelope it turns it to confetti! Author Paul
                     Rosner takes the idealized suburb, complete with its own Dr. Welby, and explores uniformity,
                     groupthink, hypocrisy, and a host of other human traits. This work is spectacular in its politically
                     incorrect satire, although Former President Clinton would have fit in and loved one of his hosts, and
                     the Author deflowers every sacred cow.

                     This is a book that takes truths and appears to radically distort them, and in many cases the Author
                     has done this. However if you have ever lived in a condominium, or planned development, or the
                     latest new urbanism, take a look at the book of rules you are subjected to, and, 'The Talking
                     Onion', seems a great deal less strange. The penalties for rule breaking may not be of the through
                     the looking glass genre as this burb, but when the materials you can build with, the colors that are
                     allowed, whether children are welcome, and how tidy your yard must be kept, are all dictated, it is a
                     slippery slope. It's one small step until your dog can only be walked 10-11 and 4-6 on Sundays and
                     Holidays. Go ahead and laugh, as the guard at your gated community refuses to let your guests in, as
                     the proper notification was not given. Or forget your resident ID, and the temporary rent a guard
                     will require a consensus vote of your gated compound to let you in, oh yeah and a DNA Test.

                     This is a hyper drive version of The Twilight Zone, for now, but like all great satire it has its basis in
                     fact. Maybe it should have been called, 'A Modest Proposal By A Talking Onion'.

                     If those who make the rules have ever annoyed you, this book is for you. If you thought there should
                     be a pill for moderating the negative effects of fluorescent lighting, grab a copy, and one for a friend.
                     If the only Dove you have in your house is soap and not the type that flies out of your kitchen
                     cabinet, immediately have ... this to your door. Finally, if you believe that people should live in
                     harmony with the plants and animals that surround us, or have contemplated whether a head of
                     lettuce might be painfully inconvenienced when ripped from the ground, get out the Platinum Card.

                     And if perchance you start hearing a neighbor or two humming or singing Pink Floyd's, 'Comfortably
                     Numb', while walking their pet during allotted hours, run to your real estate agent and sell."
 
 
 

                           A Shocking Comic Treatise of a World with No Standards, June 11, 2001
                     Reviewer: LaForest Blyler (see more about me) from Los Angeles,, CA United States
                     This fine novel by Paul Rosner is both funny and horrifying in its depiction of a moral man who finds
                     himself caught in a society that thinks it is more important to pity criminals who have dangerous
                     beliefs that ultimately kill our freedoms than to punish humankind for not following simple rules that
                     are either outdated or make no sense. Mr. Rosner writes brilliantly varied fiction that is both
                     intellectually challenging and fun (see his other recently re-published novels, "The Princess and the
                     Goblin" and "Night Train to Rangoon" This is a short and compelling tale that is both funny and
                     horrifying in its challenging people to think. Most of the characters in this novel are barren of intellect
                     and ability to challenge their beliefs. They are machines who don't know it. I found this story as
                     compelling today as when it was first published, perhaps even more so, considering our own country
                     today and its naive and old fashioned politics that ask us to hate people who disagree with us.
                     Probably not for everybody, "The Talking Onion" is well worth the time of intelligent readers.