Banking On Paris edition by Ken Samanski Literature Fiction eBooks
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Paris! Lock up your women, your bank executives, and your booze ‘cuz Bob Johnson’s midlife crisis is on the looze.
Bob (Buhb) Johnson, a brilliant, dedicated player in the multi-billion dollar banking acquisition game is the lone wolf on a mission in Paris to secure his Canadian bank’s bid to make the short list of acquiring a French bank. Soon a merciless boss and a forgiving bottle, the allure of the city and its spleen unfolds prompting Bob to question his commitment to the bid.
Bob, a quick-witted divorcee arrives a week early to brush up on his French, however, he inadvertently tangles with a homeless man, sleeps with a famous French actress, befriends a group of pick-up French basketball players, and encounters a woman who may or may not be his daughter, all of whom provide the electro shock he desperately needs to revive his “mojo” and connect with the human race again, but at what cost?
“Banking On Paris” combines the worlds of banking and Paris in a charming and humorous manner.
Banking On Paris edition by Ken Samanski Literature Fiction eBooks
When we first meet Bob Johnson, the Canadian protagonist of Ken Samanski's novel, "Banking on Paris," he has just arrived in Paris and is trying to clean the merde off his Hugo Boss Cevi slip-ons and Canali pinstriped pants. Two weeks later, when he sets off for his last meeting with BTP -- the bank he is negotiating to buy -- he's wearing khakis and Converse high-tops. Buhb, as he is called by his French acquaintances, has had a habit-changing and hilarious two weeks.At least they seem pretty funny to the reader, if not to Buhb. Samanski's round-the-clock plotting (even Buhb's dreams are exhausting) finds his protagonist leaping into the welcoming beds of amicable French beauties, hurdling over the sprawled bodies of belligerent French indigents, and eventually tossing his Blackberry and probably his career into a trash can. Bob Johnson is having a midlife crises on the Boulevard St. Michel.
His hotel isn't all that far from the Luxembourg Gardens, and this splendid park has -- of all things -- an outdoor basket ball court. By happy coincidence, Buhb is an aging point guard. A point guard is the guy who has to make the game plan work: he knows the strategy, can think on his feet, and makes the play. These qualities, of course, are exactly what make Bob Johnson so good at his job, but is the job good for Bob Johnson? Our protagonist manages to play in a pick-up game most evenings. For someone falling apart and subsisting mostly on Heinekens, he puts in pretty full days. And nights.
Samanski has a perfect ear for interspersing French phrases into the English text, so that they are neither opaque nor ostentatious. He seems completely at ease when describing the banking world of acquisitions and mergers, the tempo of contemporary Paris, and "Frenchies" of all classes and persuasions.
Bookreview.com rates "Banking on Paris" excellent and looks forward to more Canadian expat adventures in Paris.
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Banking On Paris edition by Ken Samanski Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Fifty-year-old Bob Johnson, successful executive and the only French-speaking executive in his office, arrives in Paris one week ahead of a multi-billion dollar bank acquisition deal. But when Bob's boss's incessant calls, reminders and micro-managing drive him over the edge, Bob ditches his designer-clothes-clad corporate identity in the pursuit of a better life inspired by beautiful women, sex and far too much wine. But in his euphoria of sex and booze on the streets of Paris, Bob finds something else that he might be lacking - real human relationship.
Author Ken Samanski's characters are larger-than-life stereotypes of stressed out corporate executives, French bombshells and over-sexed Frenchmen. As Bob, or "Buhb" as the French call him, sets off on a self-indulgent binge of fun, flirtation, sex, booze and general goofiness with characters such as a sexy French celebrity, a homeless man who he calls the Economist because of the logo on his sweat shirt, and the guys at the basketball court. But, Bob begins to rethink his life and experiences when a French introduces herself as his daughter, he encounters his ex-wife and her fiancée, and he finds himself very smitten by a woman named Simone.
Samanski's details about the life in France are well woven into the narrative and often entertaining in their fresh descriptions "I swallowed the drink in one gulp, and it went down like gasoline on a campfire. A minute later, the shot had exorcized a week-and-a-half of indigestion, and my teeth were clean." Bob's sexual exploits provide ample opportunity for some hilarious and embellished observations about his "Buhb-babe radar", "Buhb-Richter scale" and "Mister Eiffel Tower" or his "Bastille". While some might balk at the macho and bonding talk complete with crude language; if seen as part of the male bonding and crisis that Bob is going through, Bob is almost endearing at times when, for example, Bob's basketball buddies razz him about his sexual escapades and affectionately refer to him as "Mr. Whore."
BANKING ON PARIS is raunchy, rollicking fun for Francophiles seeking chick-lit for the male menopause.
Reviewed by Maya Fleischmann for IndieReader
This book lacks a plot with colour and depth. The descriptions are flat and fail to evoke vivid images that would make the reader feel, see, smell and experience Paris. The offensive language and persistent sexual references detract from any attempt at complete character development, and paints the French with a crude negative brush. The writer may have a sense of humour, but he fails to put it to paper. In English or French, it doesn't translate well.
The plot isn't realistic. A bank never sends one individual to pitch for an acquisition. A well-known actress with a reputable career simply doesn't blind-fold a man she just met, take him to her apartment, then have him find his own way back (what was the purpose of covering his eyes?).
The cover is bland, just like the plot. It isn't inviting enough to draw you in. It doesn't help to evoke images of Paris.
Glad I only spent ninety-cents for the book. It was a disappointing waste of the weekend. I hesitate to give it one star.
When we first meet Bob Johnson, the Canadian protagonist of Ken Samanski's novel, "Banking on Paris," he has just arrived in Paris and is trying to clean the merde off his Hugo Boss Cevi slip-ons and Canali pinstriped pants. Two weeks later, when he sets off for his last meeting with BTP -- the bank he is negotiating to buy -- he's wearing khakis and Converse high-tops. Buhb, as he is called by his French acquaintances, has had a habit-changing and hilarious two weeks.
At least they seem pretty funny to the reader, if not to Buhb. Samanski's round-the-clock plotting (even Buhb's dreams are exhausting) finds his protagonist leaping into the welcoming beds of amicable French beauties, hurdling over the sprawled bodies of belligerent French indigents, and eventually tossing his Blackberry and probably his career into a trash can. Bob Johnson is having a midlife crises on the Boulevard St. Michel.
His hotel isn't all that far from the Luxembourg Gardens, and this splendid park has -- of all things -- an outdoor basket ball court. By happy coincidence, Buhb is an aging point guard. A point guard is the guy who has to make the game plan work he knows the strategy, can think on his feet, and makes the play. These qualities, of course, are exactly what make Bob Johnson so good at his job, but is the job good for Bob Johnson? Our protagonist manages to play in a pick-up game most evenings. For someone falling apart and subsisting mostly on Heinekens, he puts in pretty full days. And nights.
Samanski has a perfect ear for interspersing French phrases into the English text, so that they are neither opaque nor ostentatious. He seems completely at ease when describing the banking world of acquisitions and mergers, the tempo of contemporary Paris, and "Frenchies" of all classes and persuasions.
Bookreview.com rates "Banking on Paris" excellent and looks forward to more Canadian expat adventures in Paris.
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