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Reviews for Evil Men’s Book Club
5 out of 5 stars – Well worth the read
Starting The Evil Men’s Book Club feels like you’re thrown a jumble of characters and plots, and it can be a bit disorienting. But if you stick with it, things start to click into place, and the Rube Goldberg machine that is this book takes shape …
5 out of 5 stars – Gritty and Real
The characters are really well developed – they’re like people you know, you know? That aspect alone makes the story super enjoyable. Do they make some stupid mistakes? Sure. But, who doesn’t? Besides, it’s a story and you need the characters to do some things like that so you can laugh at em, cringe for em, or be worried for their families …
5 out of 5 stars – Fun, relatable read with a dark side
Reminded me of my closest friends and the ups and downs we’ve gone through, less the deaths and curses, thankfully. Very enjoyable read, but with a dark side and some interesting backstories and time jumps to keep you on your toes. Would recommend to anyone, but especially to those millennials with friendships that withstand time, distance, and are always ready to pick up where we left off. Thumbs up!!
It’s November 1998. The beginnings of Y2K paranoia have gripped the nation, and uprisings long-thought dead in South America threaten to spill over into the United States …
But these concerns don’t phase the members of the Evil Men’s Book Club, an off-color fellowship formed by buddies Trevor Pug and Loo Spicotti. The rules are simple: select an “evil” book and convene at a bar. That’s it. Reading is optional—drinking beer is not.
It’s Saturday night and Trevor’s troupe of lightweight literati have again gathered at their favorite Silver Spring watering hole to sling insults and make puns. While dissecting this month’s dark reading selection, seven friends are accosted by a desperate vagrant the locals know as Prophet. When the knuckleheads rebuke the man for panhandling, Prophet curses them:
You’re gonna get arrested … lose your jobs … your women are gonna go bad … then you’re gonna die!
It is the homeless man himself who is found dead the next day—a tragic happenstance, surely, but is there more? One by one, the club members find out as their lives begin “going south.” It starts with an accident, alcoholism, and a funeral. Unseemly dreams begin and soon after careers are ruined, friendships severed, and secrets exposed.
Then the untimely deaths start.
Behind it all is a crazy mix of bikers, guerilla warfare, old money, gunrunning, extortion, cultism, kidnapping, PTSD—even St. Nick!
Curious? Come to a meeting to find out more.
More from T.C. Schueler…
An estranged son drives twelve hours to collect badly needed money from his father’s estate. The same ugly McMansion still sits behind a security wall, but there are new features: a gaudy slate roof, a 70s-style conversation pit, and nearly two dozen statues posted along the wall like sentinels. It makes no sense: Billy Buchanan’s father was broke; where had these fierce looking, obviously valuable sculptures come from? Forced to spend the week at 22 Dutch Road, Billy begins believing these samurai-styled carvings can talk to him by day, and worse, move at night – his father might not be so dead after all.
Reviews for 22 Dutch Road
5 out of 5 stars – Twisty – the best
22 Dutch Rd. by T.C. Schueler was absolutely top shelf. The hero, Billy Buchanan, has to go back to his home town to help with his late father’s estate at 22 Dutch Rd. and to receive a small interim check. Billy and his mom need to the check to stave off the financial wolves. When he arrives at the estate, he is surprised by the ring of eight-foot carved stone statues of warriors ringing the manor house just inside the property line. That’s about the only normal part of 22 Dutch Rd. Everything that followed …
5 out of 5 stars – Great book and a well done audiobook.
The book is a little slow in the first few establishing chapters, but once it gets going, it tells a compelling story with well thought out and developed characters. The audiobook is also well done and certainly worth a credit.
5 out of 5 stars – Action and Horror
Billy Buchanan receives word that his father has passed leaving him an inheritance with a stipulation. Desperate for the funds, Billy agrees to the stipulations and arrives at the estate. Since his last venture there, Billy notices about a dozen larger-than-life menacing statues and an outdated conversation pit have been added among a few other items. Building a friendship with the elderly senile neighbor next door, Billy manages to make it to the end of the required stay. What Billy did not bank on was the consequences of completing his selfish and conniving father’s last wishes. Billy discovers the hidden agenda, resulting in a fight for his life, soul, body, and mind!
T.C. Schueler lives with his family outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. 22 Dutch Road is his first novel. By day, he uses an engineering degree to restore degraded wetlands and streams. By night, he lets the monkeys out to write down the madness.
Praise from Reader Views: “T. C. Schueler did an amazing job at drawing a perfect contrast between family acting like strangers and a stranger becoming practically family overnight, which seemed to be one of the morals of the story. I loved the author’s dark humor and smooth writing style as well. The characters were witty, the conversations smart and conclusive, making this a real page-turner. I honestly can’t recommend this story enough. It was a fun roller-coaster ride of emotions.”
A Note from the Author…
As of 2015, 2.2 million Americans were incarcerated, the world’s largest prison population (Source: World Prison Brief). Access to reading improves rehabilitation rates, but prison libraries often lack the volume of books to meet demand. Fortunately, several dozen not-for-profit groups assist the incarcerated by providing free reading material. Within our jail systems, personal books are popular and are often traded; it is not uncommon for a book to change hands and be read several times. If you would like to assist Mr. Schueler in providing copies of his books to worthy not-for-profit organizations such as those listed adjacent, please contact him.
To date, 209 copies have been donated to volunteer organizations (see table) by generous people like you.
| Asheville Prison Books | NC |
| Books through Bars | PA |
| Books to Prisons | AL |
| Chicago Books to Women in Prison | IL |
| DC Books to Prisons Project | DC |
| Inside Books Project | TX |
| Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners | LA |
| NC Women’s Prison Book Project | NC |
| NYC Books Through Bars | NY |
| Olympia Books to Prisoners | WA |
| Open Books Prison Book Project | FL |
| Pittsburgh Prison Book Project | PA |
| Portland Books to Prisoners | OR |
| Prison Books Collective | NC |
| Prison Books Program | MA |
| Prisoners Literature Project | CA |
| Read Between the Bars | AZ |
| Wisconsin Books to Prisoners | WI |
| Women’s Prison Book Project | MN |