{Character Interview} Max Doler of 'The Investment Club'
We’re thrilled to be talking to Max Doler from Doug Cooper’s
The Investment Club. It’s a pleasure
to have him with us today at Pimp That Character!
Max: I’m thirty-six and an entrepreneur. Perhaps you’ve
heard of one of my products, The Lapkin, a napkin specially designed for your
lap. We had an infomercial that ran pretty consistently a few years back then
McDonald’s did a drive-thru promotion with it for about a year.
Can you tell us
about one of your most distinguishable features?
Max: Well you can see from looking at me, I’m a dwarf, or
little person, if you want to be politically correct. Technically, it’s known
as achondroplasia, my trunk is average size, but my arms are proportionately
smaller.
What would I love
the most about you?
Max: I’m a doer. I built my company, Max Doler Investing,
from a small operation in the living room of my one-bedroom apartment in Henderson,
Nevada into a multi-million-dollar
international company.
What would I hate
the most about you?
Max: I’m completely lovable. I don’t think there is anything
you would hate. (laughs) Nah, I guess
if I had to pick something, I’ve been known from time-to-time to be a bit
arrogant and self-destructive.
What is in your
refrigerator right now?
Max: Only Voss bottled water. I eat out for all my meals.
I’m too busy to shop and cook.
What is your most
treasured possession?
Max: The original prototype of the Lapkin I created when I
was ten years old. Only thing I kept from my childhood. Had a special safe with
a an unbreakable viewing window designed for it for my bedroom so I could see
it every day as a reminder of how it all started.
Do you think the
author portrayed you accurately?
Max: Yeah, I think Doug got me pretty well. I was probably a
bigger jerk in the beginning than he let on, but everything in there is true.
If you could
change one physical thing about yourself, what would that be?
Max: I’d be less handsome. It makes me uncomfortable how
people stare at me for being so good-looking. (laughs)
Are you a loner or
do you prefer to surround yourself with friends?
Max: I’m a total loner. When you’re given up for adoption at
birth and shuffled around foster homes, you learn to rely on only yourself.
It’s served me fairly well though. Although this blackjack crew in the book
softened me up a bit.
If you knew you
were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today?
Max: I would donate all of my wealth and holdings to a trust
to support the businesses, the Oasis Mission and Miss C’s Music
& Dance School
at my facility at the Western Hotel in downtown Vegas except for one million
dollars. I’d take that million to the El Cortez Casino down on Fremont
Street and play blackjack and drink cognac until
either the money or I was gone. If any money
was left at the end of the day, I’d give it to a random stranger.
About the Author
Doug Cooper is the author of
the award-winning novel Outside In and The Investment Club
available October 2016. He has a BS in Mathematics Education from Miami
University and a MA in American Studies from Saint Louis University. Always searching, he has traveled to over twenty
countries on five continents, exploring the contradictions between what we
believe and how we act in the pursuit of truth, beauty, and love. Originally
from Port Clinton, Ohio, he has also called Cleveland, St.
Louis, Detroit, New York, and Oslo, Norway home. He now lives in Cleveland working on his third novel Focus Lost.
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About the Book:
Forty million people visit Vegas every year but most never
get past the strip. What about the people who live there? What brought them
there? What keeps them there?
Told from the perspective of a seasoned blackjack dealer, The
Investment Club tells the stories of a self-destructive, dwarf
entrepreneur, a drug-addicted musical performer-turned-stripper, a retired,
widowed New Jersey policeman, a
bereaved, divorced female sportscaster, and a card-counting, former Catholic
priest before and after their fateful meeting at the El Cortez Casino in
downtown Vegas.
As the five learn the greatest return comes from investing
in one another, their lives stabilize and take on new, positive directions. But
their love and support for each other can take them only so far before they
must determine the meaning and value of their own lives.
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