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This writer is based in Kansas City and this is his first novel. If he had waited 20 years to explore the same idea, I probably would give it five stars instead of four, because the concept he explores is so profound, I think it takes a heap of life experience to do it full justice. Still, it's a fine achievement Mr. Shepherd has produced. His hero, Henry Chase, is 27. As a teen, his life was difficult and he suffered a psychic wound to his heart and ego which led him to become a callous S.O.B., but a financially successful one. He cheats and lies and intimidates and seduces and dumps people to get ahead, and it works great for his first six years out of college. Then he has a moral crisis, and with the help of a mysterious, seemingly wise woman, Henry decides the only way out is to borrow one of AA's 12 steps and try to make amends. He and Sophie, the mentor/shrink/antagonist/love object who spoke up just in time for Henry to decide to live, journey from Wichita to Philly to NYC and back again. Henry seeks forgiveness, sometimes gets it, sometimes gets punched. Sophie has surprising secrets of her own, and in the end, needs the new Henry to try to save her. I needed 60 pages before I knew I would stay to the finish, but I am glad I did. Not every encounter with Henry's victims is credible in all aspects, but the heart of his efforts has a resonance. There is some humor, and some sensual moments as well, but this is a tale of self-redemption with a little help from a friend. And a tale of some false information and false assumptions and how each leads to both good and not-so-good ends. Call it a coed buddy novel, a road novel, a psychological comedy...there are elements of all those things inside. A love story, too. But if you ever had a parent who drank too much, a friend who betrayed you, a road not taken that turned out for the best, a teen love who spurned you, a parent who died too young, a road taken that turned out for the worst...you will find moments with which to identify in this excellent first fiction from a guy to keep an eye on. John Scott Shepherd could become quite a writer as he journeys on.


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Henry List of Wrongs John Scott Shepherd Books Reviews

The book starts off well enough, but after the prologue, it goes waaaay downhill. If I hadn't lived in Kansas (where a lot of the book takes place) I would have put the book down after the first couple of chapters. It's painfully obvious the author wants this to be a movie - why he didn't simply write a screenplay, I'll never know. I expected the words "extreme close-up" to pop up any second. The dialogue is mostly fluff and cliche, and the characters are stock. The "guy who lost his heart" meets "the wacky girl" and blah blah blah. "Wacky Girl" has a past, which takes the reader all of 5 seconds to figure out. The reader can't help but picture Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock or Sarah Jessica Parker saying these lines (and that's exactly what Shepherd wants you to do). If this was only a movie, and I saw it, I would have found it mildly amusing. Since it was a book, I simply found it completely annoying. Apparently, this book is going to be a movie soon (there's a schocker). But with "Life Or Something Like It" failing at the box office, I can't help but see this one doing the same. Save your money, and check it out at your local library.
Henry Chase is from Kansas - a shy boy who loves the most beautiful girl in school. He turns into a Wall Street tycoon years after she has broken his heart and returns to Wichita to show her what she missed. Instead, Sophie Reilly takes him on a journey to purge his past transgressions and start over. Along the way, he falls in love with her and in the end, saves her just as much as he is saved.

A man wrote this book, so there is no time wasted on cheesy romance - which I truly appreciated! I didn't like that everyone seemed so capable of forgiving his evil ways. He plowed through 6 in a long weekend for Pete's sake!!! But, it was a nice touch that Elizabeth popped back into the picture in the end and Henry got to make the real choice to be with Sophie.
Amazing book! Just the premise of the book - a man with his housekeeper/psych student (a woman he's attracted to in a way curiously different from any other woman he's known) on a mission to right the wrongs of the past ten years - is intriguing and Shepherd doesn't disappoint He expertly packages the idea up into a brilliantly wrapped gift that you first savor unwrapping slowly, but then can't help but tear the paper off in a frenzy to see what's inside.
At 17, Henry has just let all the "bad" in his life pile up. It might spoil someone's fun to write what the "bad" was or to give away too many details so I'll try to refrain. When Henry felt himself die inside, "the Assassin" is born. The Assassin doesn't literally murder people in a physical way, but he does carelessly do anything in his keenly intelligent imagination possible to wreak havoc on peoples' person lives, stomping dreams in the process.
Ten years later, Henry is told something about his past that makes all the devious workings of the Assassin blaringly real and very ugly to him, and he breaks down yet again. Sophie, a housekeeper and psych student who happens to be near him when he realizes what an awful person he's become, helps him to write a list of wrongs and promises to accompany him as he seeks forgiveness for the Assassin's wrongs.
This book IS very funny, and sometimes unexpectedly so - it'll make you laugh out loud. It's also sad and mysterious and full of hope, adventure, and about becoming the kind of person one can trust and be proud of. Henry realizes the Assassin doesn't have to be completely assassinated - some of his talents come in use in a positive way when he decides he'll do anything to help Sophie, who has helped him through his List of Wrongs.
This writer is based in Kansas City and this is his first novel. If he had waited 20 years to explore the same idea, I probably would give it five stars instead of four, because the concept he explores is so profound, I think it takes a heap of life experience to do it full justice. Still, it's a fine achievement Mr. Shepherd has produced. His hero, Henry Chase, is 27. As a teen, his life was difficult and he suffered a psychic wound to his heart and ego which led him to become a callous S.O.B., but a financially successful one. He cheats and lies and intimidates and seduces and dumps people to get ahead, and it works great for his first six years out of college. Then he has a moral crisis, and with the help of a mysterious, seemingly wise woman, Henry decides the only way out is to borrow one of AA's 12 steps and try to make amends. He and Sophie, the mentor/shrink/antagonist/love object who spoke up just in time for Henry to decide to live, journey from Wichita to Philly to NYC and back again. Henry seeks forgiveness, sometimes gets it, sometimes gets punched. Sophie has surprising secrets of her own, and in the end, needs the new Henry to try to save her. I needed 60 pages before I knew I would stay to the finish, but I am glad I did. Not every encounter with Henry's victims is credible in all aspects, but the heart of his efforts has a resonance. There is some humor, and some sensual moments as well, but this is a tale of self-redemption with a little help from a friend. And a tale of some false information and false assumptions and how each leads to both good and not-so-good ends. Call it a coed buddy novel, a road novel, a psychological comedy...there are elements of all those things inside. A love story, too. But if you ever had a parent who drank too much, a friend who betrayed you, a road not taken that turned out for the best, a teen love who spurned you, a parent who died too young, a road taken that turned out for the worst...you will find moments with which to identify in this excellent first fiction from a guy to keep an eye on. John Scott Shepherd could become quite a writer as he journeys on.