The Effect of The Cunning Website Wish List in Buddy‟s Life in The Novel “Wish List” By John Locke
APPENDICES
THE BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN LOCKE
John Locke was born in Puerto Rico, which is a USA dependent territory and
has the status of “an organized unincorporated territory”. His father is a Canadian
military and his mother is American. He attended boarding school in Pennsylvania.
One day when he elementary school pupil he was bitten by ant. He has got angry, and
he decided to write about it in a very special way, and he wrote a sarcastic short story
titled “Ants Aren‟t Very Nice”. His teacher enjoyed this story so much, and she read
it to all his class and after to a higher class. John enjoyed his fame. After that, John‟s
favorite time pass was a process of creating a stories and writings. He was very
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talented in writings, but he did not become a professional writer in his youth. He
started career selling insurance and investing in real estate.
He attended college at Northwestern state University, where he specialized in
journalism, but he always has many other interests. John had many hobbies in his
youth, he played guitar and made songs for a rock band, he worked as an insurance
salesmen. John became a vice president of insurance company by the time he was just
21 years old. He shows his talent in a marketing area and his deep knowledge of his
clients' psychology. Later he moved to Louisville, where at the age of 35 he founded
his own insurance company called Freedom Life Insurance. In the services of agency
were included all comprehensive Healthcare Coverage, Fixed Indemnity Health
Insurance, Critical Illness, Life, Dental Coverage, Accident, Short-Term Accident
Disability Income Insurance etc. The mission of this agency is to protect customers
from financial hardship due to unforeseen illness or injury. The company proclaimed
itself as flexible, affordable and secure organization. His company grew up very
quickly, because he was smart and hardworking manager. His company employed
nearly 7000 insurance agents in 34 states of USA. He was currently an influential
owner of two insurance agencies and thirteen shopping centers. Despite of all this, his
success did not seem enough for him. He was looking for opportunities to find the
kind of business that can provide him not just money, but also more free time to
devote his energy to his passion to creative writings. In 1995 he sold the company to
become a private real-estate investor.
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JOHN LOCKE’S CAREER
John Locke is well known self-published writer who sold one million eBooks.
It is his best renowned achievement. He is one of only eight authors, who have sold
one million eBooks. He releases his novels as eBooks via Amazon‟s Kindle Direct
Publishing. Artwork and design of the books is done by Telemachus Press. Since he
began publishing in 2010, Locke keeps his reputation as an author of the bestsellers.
He has sold more than two million eBooks! Most of his bestsellers are from Donovan
Creed series. His success provoked interest of many different people. How could he
able to sell so many books? What he think about marketing in book selling business?
Author decided to answer for these questions in his book titled “How I Sold One
Million eBooks in Five Months”. In this work, Locke uses the term “Loyalty
Transference” to describe the act of transferring a reader‟s loyalty from one concept
or idea to another. He was smart using the social media and blogging and he created
large amounts of publicity through his core group of loyal readers, around 100,000 by
his estimate. Noticeable, that John Locke never aimed to make a good publishing
contract with traditional publishers, he worked out a mass-market paperback
distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster, who controlled design, content and
pricing. Those true partners could sell physical copies of his novels at large retailers.
Publisher Simon & Schuster was founded in the early 1920s by Richard Simon and
Lincoln “Max” Schuster. In 1924, it published the first collection of crossword
puzzles. Nowadays the company Simon & Schuster is a division of CBS (Columbia
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Broadcasting System Corporation). This is one of the four largest English-language
publishers, with Random House, Penguin, Harper Collins. In the current period,
Simon & Schuster published two thousand titles annually! All books of John Locke
contain dark and depressive destructive feelings, which reflect a dark side of the soul
of typical American people of the medium classes and of the low class audience. The
feelings of instability, jealous and cruelty are very common in a greedy capitalist
society with gangsters, bandits, prostitutes and narcotics. Peoples in USA downtowns
are struggling for quick easy money, which lead them to make a crime. It leads them
to become mad and behave cruel. Many blood, murders, kidnappings, police and
horrors are normal attributes of contemporary American literature and films. John is a
good businessman and he knows well, what the clients of his country want. He feels
the demand in the book market. He knows that most of his readers - are from the
darkest places such as New York's Bronx. Most of them are not educated and unable
to earn an honest way. Cruelty, heartlessness, greed, greed and crimes are reign there.
Murderers and robbers - are the main characters of this American world. Many young
people in USA have a passion for first-class hotels, fancy restaurants, and expensive
women. They want all these things, they don‟t have moral and religious principles
and they easy can decide to become professional killers or drug dealers. The more
blood, assassins, cruel intrigues would be in the text of book, the more American
readers would be interested in reading it. John Locke understands this is very good
and he makes a perfect marketing idea. Locke‟s books have plenty of narrative push,
but little true suspense, as nothing significant is at stake.
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It is well known, that every ten seconds, twenty-four hours a day, a John
Locke‟s novel is downloaded somewhere in the world! Authors, book reviewers,
bloggers and fans across the globe agree: John Locke is one of the most creative
contemporary talents in America today. But it is obviously, that he is a genius
businessmen, he know, how to make a perfect marketing scheme, but his literature is
not true literature, his language is very poor and his themes very concise and similar
with depressive reality of American society today. His works have intricate and
sophisticated storylines, but they don't have humanistic ideas, moral and ideological
values for high spiritual and intelligent society and humanity.
THE SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL
Buddy Pancake is a typical American guy of a middle class who works as a
loan officer in one of bank offices in Louisville downtown. His professional life is
not that good, because he always will be a worker bee for his boss, Mr. Oglethorpe,
who threatened to fire Buddy, that makes Buddy really hates his boss. Although
Buddy's circumstances in his workplace are not perfect, he feels really lucky to have
a good and beautiful wife who really loves him named Lissie.
On a Sunday and Monday, Buddy and his few friends were spending time
together, and his friends persuaded him to type four his wishes on a website named
Wish List. At first, Buddy does not really interested with the website, but the more he
thinks about it, the more his curious increases, so he also join on Wish List website
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and does not really pay attention about what is written in the fine print by Wish List.
He puts in his Wish List his top wishes, namely: to make love with movie star Jinny
Kidwell, to get a million dollars, to see his boss dead, and to have a change of his
luck. But his troubles started when his wishes began to come true. Buddy's life slowly
changes after his wishes came true one by one. A strange guy named Mr. Jefferson
appears and helps Buddy to escape from being fired by Mr. Oglethorpe. Mr. Jefferson
encouraged Buddy to grant his wishes. Buddy thought to become the happiest man
ever, but Buddy's life turns immediately to the worst, after Mr. Jefferson demanded
him to pay four wishes to other wishes.
In urgent condition, Buddy asked Donovan Creed, the best friend of his sister,
who is also a former of CIA Assassin, to help him to escape from the Wish List
agents. After receiving offer from Buddy, Donovan started to collect the information
of Wish List and chase people who were involved with Wish List. Because of
Donovan's experience in intelligence service, his success knocks down the Wish List
agents one by one. Jinny Kidwell, the actress who slept with Buddy, is one of the
Wish List's agent's weakness, because Jinny is a public figure and they don't want
Wish List operation spread outside to other people who doesn't involve. So, Donovan
changes Jinny with Buddy to the Wish List agents.
After escape from the Wish List, Donovan tells Buddy, that he infected virus of
AIDS after he slept with Jinny Kidwell and that he is going to die. Donovan tells
Buddy to not meet with Lissie anymore because Donovan has promised this on Wish
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List. At first, Buddy refused Donovan's offer because he really wants. But after he
learned about the harmful effects that may be detrimental to the Lissie's health and
may put her life in a danger, he agreed and he finally obeys Donovan's offer. He left
Lissie without letting her to know.
After Buddy died, Donovan still keeps his eyes on Lissie and protects her from
Wish List agents.
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THE BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN LOCKE
John Locke was born in Puerto Rico, which is a USA dependent territory and
has the status of “an organized unincorporated territory”. His father is a Canadian
military and his mother is American. He attended boarding school in Pennsylvania.
One day when he elementary school pupil he was bitten by ant. He has got angry, and
he decided to write about it in a very special way, and he wrote a sarcastic short story
titled “Ants Aren‟t Very Nice”. His teacher enjoyed this story so much, and she read
it to all his class and after to a higher class. John enjoyed his fame. After that, John‟s
favorite time pass was a process of creating a stories and writings. He was very
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talented in writings, but he did not become a professional writer in his youth. He
started career selling insurance and investing in real estate.
He attended college at Northwestern state University, where he specialized in
journalism, but he always has many other interests. John had many hobbies in his
youth, he played guitar and made songs for a rock band, he worked as an insurance
salesmen. John became a vice president of insurance company by the time he was just
21 years old. He shows his talent in a marketing area and his deep knowledge of his
clients' psychology. Later he moved to Louisville, where at the age of 35 he founded
his own insurance company called Freedom Life Insurance. In the services of agency
were included all comprehensive Healthcare Coverage, Fixed Indemnity Health
Insurance, Critical Illness, Life, Dental Coverage, Accident, Short-Term Accident
Disability Income Insurance etc. The mission of this agency is to protect customers
from financial hardship due to unforeseen illness or injury. The company proclaimed
itself as flexible, affordable and secure organization. His company grew up very
quickly, because he was smart and hardworking manager. His company employed
nearly 7000 insurance agents in 34 states of USA. He was currently an influential
owner of two insurance agencies and thirteen shopping centers. Despite of all this, his
success did not seem enough for him. He was looking for opportunities to find the
kind of business that can provide him not just money, but also more free time to
devote his energy to his passion to creative writings. In 1995 he sold the company to
become a private real-estate investor.
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JOHN LOCKE’S CAREER
John Locke is well known self-published writer who sold one million eBooks.
It is his best renowned achievement. He is one of only eight authors, who have sold
one million eBooks. He releases his novels as eBooks via Amazon‟s Kindle Direct
Publishing. Artwork and design of the books is done by Telemachus Press. Since he
began publishing in 2010, Locke keeps his reputation as an author of the bestsellers.
He has sold more than two million eBooks! Most of his bestsellers are from Donovan
Creed series. His success provoked interest of many different people. How could he
able to sell so many books? What he think about marketing in book selling business?
Author decided to answer for these questions in his book titled “How I Sold One
Million eBooks in Five Months”. In this work, Locke uses the term “Loyalty
Transference” to describe the act of transferring a reader‟s loyalty from one concept
or idea to another. He was smart using the social media and blogging and he created
large amounts of publicity through his core group of loyal readers, around 100,000 by
his estimate. Noticeable, that John Locke never aimed to make a good publishing
contract with traditional publishers, he worked out a mass-market paperback
distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster, who controlled design, content and
pricing. Those true partners could sell physical copies of his novels at large retailers.
Publisher Simon & Schuster was founded in the early 1920s by Richard Simon and
Lincoln “Max” Schuster. In 1924, it published the first collection of crossword
puzzles. Nowadays the company Simon & Schuster is a division of CBS (Columbia
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Broadcasting System Corporation). This is one of the four largest English-language
publishers, with Random House, Penguin, Harper Collins. In the current period,
Simon & Schuster published two thousand titles annually! All books of John Locke
contain dark and depressive destructive feelings, which reflect a dark side of the soul
of typical American people of the medium classes and of the low class audience. The
feelings of instability, jealous and cruelty are very common in a greedy capitalist
society with gangsters, bandits, prostitutes and narcotics. Peoples in USA downtowns
are struggling for quick easy money, which lead them to make a crime. It leads them
to become mad and behave cruel. Many blood, murders, kidnappings, police and
horrors are normal attributes of contemporary American literature and films. John is a
good businessman and he knows well, what the clients of his country want. He feels
the demand in the book market. He knows that most of his readers - are from the
darkest places such as New York's Bronx. Most of them are not educated and unable
to earn an honest way. Cruelty, heartlessness, greed, greed and crimes are reign there.
Murderers and robbers - are the main characters of this American world. Many young
people in USA have a passion for first-class hotels, fancy restaurants, and expensive
women. They want all these things, they don‟t have moral and religious principles
and they easy can decide to become professional killers or drug dealers. The more
blood, assassins, cruel intrigues would be in the text of book, the more American
readers would be interested in reading it. John Locke understands this is very good
and he makes a perfect marketing idea. Locke‟s books have plenty of narrative push,
but little true suspense, as nothing significant is at stake.
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It is well known, that every ten seconds, twenty-four hours a day, a John
Locke‟s novel is downloaded somewhere in the world! Authors, book reviewers,
bloggers and fans across the globe agree: John Locke is one of the most creative
contemporary talents in America today. But it is obviously, that he is a genius
businessmen, he know, how to make a perfect marketing scheme, but his literature is
not true literature, his language is very poor and his themes very concise and similar
with depressive reality of American society today. His works have intricate and
sophisticated storylines, but they don't have humanistic ideas, moral and ideological
values for high spiritual and intelligent society and humanity.
THE SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL
Buddy Pancake is a typical American guy of a middle class who works as a
loan officer in one of bank offices in Louisville downtown. His professional life is
not that good, because he always will be a worker bee for his boss, Mr. Oglethorpe,
who threatened to fire Buddy, that makes Buddy really hates his boss. Although
Buddy's circumstances in his workplace are not perfect, he feels really lucky to have
a good and beautiful wife who really loves him named Lissie.
On a Sunday and Monday, Buddy and his few friends were spending time
together, and his friends persuaded him to type four his wishes on a website named
Wish List. At first, Buddy does not really interested with the website, but the more he
thinks about it, the more his curious increases, so he also join on Wish List website
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and does not really pay attention about what is written in the fine print by Wish List.
He puts in his Wish List his top wishes, namely: to make love with movie star Jinny
Kidwell, to get a million dollars, to see his boss dead, and to have a change of his
luck. But his troubles started when his wishes began to come true. Buddy's life slowly
changes after his wishes came true one by one. A strange guy named Mr. Jefferson
appears and helps Buddy to escape from being fired by Mr. Oglethorpe. Mr. Jefferson
encouraged Buddy to grant his wishes. Buddy thought to become the happiest man
ever, but Buddy's life turns immediately to the worst, after Mr. Jefferson demanded
him to pay four wishes to other wishes.
In urgent condition, Buddy asked Donovan Creed, the best friend of his sister,
who is also a former of CIA Assassin, to help him to escape from the Wish List
agents. After receiving offer from Buddy, Donovan started to collect the information
of Wish List and chase people who were involved with Wish List. Because of
Donovan's experience in intelligence service, his success knocks down the Wish List
agents one by one. Jinny Kidwell, the actress who slept with Buddy, is one of the
Wish List's agent's weakness, because Jinny is a public figure and they don't want
Wish List operation spread outside to other people who doesn't involve. So, Donovan
changes Jinny with Buddy to the Wish List agents.
After escape from the Wish List, Donovan tells Buddy, that he infected virus of
AIDS after he slept with Jinny Kidwell and that he is going to die. Donovan tells
Buddy to not meet with Lissie anymore because Donovan has promised this on Wish
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List. At first, Buddy refused Donovan's offer because he really wants. But after he
learned about the harmful effects that may be detrimental to the Lissie's health and
may put her life in a danger, he agreed and he finally obeys Donovan's offer. He left
Lissie without letting her to know.
After Buddy died, Donovan still keeps his eyes on Lissie and protects her from
Wish List agents.
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