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The Girl Made of Cool

by Alan Sean Fox

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THE GIRL MADE OF COOL (First Edition) -- Featuring a new novel and two other stories by Alan Fox. ---- Author ALAN FOX writes love stories, filled with a sense of awe and wonder, and set against a brutal world. THE GIRL MADE OF COOL is his vibrant new novel and the centerpiece of this collection. Here, Fox tells the story of a young man and woman who are falling in love with each other, but the young woman doesn't know it. She believes that she's falling in love with the man's far more handsome, more perfect friend. ... As the story unfolds and deepens, we see how these two highly talented young men must suffer, struggle, and wage battle to woo this young woman. This, as all the while, she grows into an ever greater beauty, a more charismatic personality, and an all-the-more alluring woman. ... This, as all the while, this young lady grows to become an elegant woman made of shining love and elusive cool. -- Also featured here in this collection, you will find: The Novel HELL HAS BLUE SKIES -- A love story about intense relationships in an office, whose unusual line of business is to train people to become 'world-class experts.' And the short story THE LOVELY LADY AT THE LOVE MUSEUM -- A colorful tale of romance and high-level maneuvering in the big city. ---- ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Alan Fox writes love stories about people looking for a sense of wonder in a brutal world, people pursuing beauty in the face of insanity. His previous novel, The Seeker in Forever, is now available in a second revised edition.… (more)
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This is a collection of 3 stories.

The first is A Girl Made of Cool and is written in play form. It's about two men in love with the same woman. Ridley is more kind and would be the better choice, but on their first date he gave Jayne TMI about himself, which she didn't like. Chet is very handsome and has more money but he is egotistical and a not so nice person. Of course, Jane decides she would rather be with Chet so Ridley bows out. This bothered me, I would have rather he stay and fight for his woman. This story was a very easy read, and it didn't take long to finish. I thought the dialogue was at times unnatural and strained, but I still enjoyed it.

The second story is romance that takes place in an office and is also written in play form. It is not as long as the first story, and I actually liked it more. Jack is the newbie in the company which teaches people how to be an "expert", in anything I guess, because nothing else was explained. He isn't sure he can be as cut-throat as the others, or if he even wants to be. Kate is his love interest who works with him and the two have a very interesting type of relationship. I think I liked this story the best of the three.

The third is a combination of the first two. It's a little bit of romance set in the business world, and is about the good and bad in people. The main character was named Reed and he was like a fish out of water. For years he was an anthropologist but when he ran out of funds, he moved to New York City, tried finding a job, but when he couldn't he decided to build an apartment building. Things are very seldom smooth in that business, and this time is no different. This is a very short story and takes only a few minutes to read. Overall, I thought it was a good story. It had a good pace to it. ( )
  VickiLN | May 7, 2010 |
This story is about three twentyish year old people, Chet, Ridley and Jayne, who are having difficulties trying to figure out where they are in their relationship with each other, where two of these people are falling in love but do not realize it. The story is written mostly in small paragraphs, and I felt that it was written like a screenplay, where each section was setting up the story/characterization. At first I had a bit of difficulty reading the story in this format but I did get used to it as I continued reading.

Chet is a handsome, rich and well liked person by most people he meets. I found him to be selfish, egotistical and has a huge libido. He is confident in himself and his goal is to have slept with 25 women before he is 25 years old. Jayne is the one he has focused on in spite of the fact that he knows that his roommate Ridley is in love with her. Ridley is the gentlemen and moves aside, because he wants whatever makes Jayne happy. I didn't like Chet at all, I did like Ridley although I thought he should have had more assertive in what he wanted. Jayne may have been beautiful and more so as she matured but I didn't like how she was taken in by Chet and just dropping Ridley because he thought enough of her in their first date to tell Jayne the truth of himself.

The second story in this book is called Hell Has Blue Skies and it is about office romance and and how a young man is trained to be an expert. An expert on what? Never did figure out what they were experts in. This company was owned by a company that was owned by a another company. This story was written in the same style as The Girl Made Of Cool. A nice story about a guy and how he goes about trying to get the girl. The last story in the book The Lovely Lady at the Love Museum is another business story with love and romance and deal making in the big city of New York with the good guys and the bad guys...

I enjoyed this book and the author definitely knows his way around the business community and you can tell he enjoys it because you can see it in his writing. He is able to give the reader a very good look into the business world and of course the love stories that are featured in all two novels and short story that are featured in this book...
I received this book for review from the author, Alan Fox, and did not receive any monetary compensation for my honest review
  celticlady53 | Jan 29, 2010 |
It has been months since I read such a love story. If this is to have a film adaptation, I would very much like this to be in the Indie films. I love Indie and with the kind of depth and dialogue this book has my cousin in law would flip with excitement.

This is not your typical boy meets girl, girl and boy and falls in love kind of thing, well ok not right away, there were complications and obstacles. This is a story of a girl named Jayne Holly Wyatt who met Ridley Richardson who listened to his friend Chet Clifford on how to woo this lady thinking she was every other girl out there then confessed that the whole thing was just a front. At first Jayne seems to be the type who wants men with status, good looks and can be easily seduced. She clearly said that she like men with nice suits and money, so when Ridley confess that he neither have any of it she started to get uneasy. But she is not the girl that I thought she was, she is indeed the Girl made of Cool. Witty, independent and can seriously take care of herself when it comes to men. Ridley on the other hand is a thinker, wants to be a Zoologist now then shifts to studying the World History, human behavior and eventually the universe. Ridley got depth and intelligence that most women miss out. He depicts the image of the good guy, too nice to sit back and watch as the woman of his dreams got swept away by his friend. Chet of course is the exact opposite. The Player who talks to his imaginary audience while coming up with schemes on how to help Ridley. A marketing genius, charismatic and egotistical, until he got a dose of his own medicine.

Jayne was weirded out by Ridley's odd behavior. Chet decides that Jayne will be his number 23 on his 25 on 25 goal. Jayne played a game with Chet. Chet lied mostly about everything. Ridley holds the wanting, the needing and the kissing and settled to being Jayne's friend but Ridley was really inlove.

I found myself enjoying the games that Chet and Jayne played. I was enthralled on the exchange of dialogues between Jayne and Ridley. It was wonderful and deep. I wasn't surprised at the ending, I knew it's going to happened and what a great ending that was. Alan Fox I look forward to readign the two featured story in this edition. The Girl Made of cool is an unconventional and refreshing read. The characters are fascinating and their personality evolves all through out the book. ( )
  peaceloveandpat | Jan 18, 2010 |
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THE GIRL MADE OF COOL (First Edition) -- Featuring a new novel and two other stories by Alan Fox. ---- Author ALAN FOX writes love stories, filled with a sense of awe and wonder, and set against a brutal world. THE GIRL MADE OF COOL is his vibrant new novel and the centerpiece of this collection. Here, Fox tells the story of a young man and woman who are falling in love with each other, but the young woman doesn't know it. She believes that she's falling in love with the man's far more handsome, more perfect friend. ... As the story unfolds and deepens, we see how these two highly talented young men must suffer, struggle, and wage battle to woo this young woman. This, as all the while, she grows into an ever greater beauty, a more charismatic personality, and an all-the-more alluring woman. ... This, as all the while, this young lady grows to become an elegant woman made of shining love and elusive cool. -- Also featured here in this collection, you will find: The Novel HELL HAS BLUE SKIES -- A love story about intense relationships in an office, whose unusual line of business is to train people to become 'world-class experts.' And the short story THE LOVELY LADY AT THE LOVE MUSEUM -- A colorful tale of romance and high-level maneuvering in the big city. ---- ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Alan Fox writes love stories about people looking for a sense of wonder in a brutal world, people pursuing beauty in the face of insanity. His previous novel, The Seeker in Forever, is now available in a second revised edition.

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