Jake Tapper Whined and Wheedled His Leftwing Celebrity Twitter Frenz to Plug His Godawful New "Book."
It Still Flopped.

I read about five chapters of his first "novel."

It was a bad imitation of The DaVinci Code. He just kept giving you these "facts" about the DC area like "the Smithsonian is 90,000 square feet in area, and, given the tall ceilings, is 350,000 cubic feet. You could fit three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers inside the Smithsonian."

That's not an exact quote but he does that. He was describing a park along the Potomac River. Instead of drawing a mental image of the park -- you know, instead of giving you a sense-impression of what you'd see and feel if you were in the park -- he started babbling about when it the land was zoned for Park Use by the district and how many square miles it encompasses. Like, shit he got straight off the brochure he got at the park Visitors Booth.

He then has his blatant self-insert hero -- a reporter patterned exactly on Jake Tapper, except good looking, and with a "nose for news" (Jesus save me) -- attend a DC soiree featuring lots of politicos and movie stars from the 1950s. He seriously just copy-pastes a run-down of movies and hit songs released in 1953 to really prove to you he's done his research.

I renamed it Wikipedia: The Novel.

Anyway he wrote a sequel to Wikipedia: The Novel.

It's called All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller.

A thriller? For serious?

Well, I guess random factoids about how many biplanes can fit inside the Capitol Rotunda are "thrilling" for some people.

Jake Tapper Got His Celebrity Friends To Plug His New Book. It Still Flopped. So-called thriller marred by 'overwrought prose' and 'wildly improbable plot developments'

Andrew Stiles
November 8, 2023

What happened: CNN host Jake Tapper persuaded (begged?) dozens of his liberal celebrity friends and journalist colleagues to publicly endorse his latest book, All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller, which came out this summer.

* The list of lib celebs who plugged Tapper's book includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jimmy Kimmel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Seth Meyers, Paul Rudd, Adam Scott, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Whoopi Goldberg, Conan O'Brien, Christian Slater, Elizabeth Banks, and "Weird Al" Yankovic, among others. Kimmel urged his 11.4 million followers to buy a copy "for yourself or to send a copy to Trump in jail."

* Practically all of Tapper's colleagues at CNN, at least the ones who appear regularly on television, posted their own endorsements of the book on social media. They were joined by several other journalists at rival networks, including former Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos.

What happened next: The book still flopped--sort of like the time all those celebrities endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 but no one cared. All the Demons Are Here has sold just 13,196 copies since its release on July 11, according to the Daily Beast.

Crucial context: That's not very good.

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• Promotional material for the elder Tapper's thriller described it as "an absolute page-turner" that "transports readers to the 1970s underground world of cults, celebrities, tabloid journalism, serial killers, disco, and UFOs."

What they're saying: Some readers disagreed with that assessment. Kirkus Reviews described All the Demons Are Here as "a quasi-mystery in search of authenticity."

* Publisher's Weekly complained that the author's "overwrought prose" served to exacerbate "some wildly improbable plot developments."

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