Title: Corruption Reigns In Our Courtroom
Author: Gloria Parker
Publisher: Gloria Parker
ISBN: -13:978-0-9788136-0-4
Pages: 202
Genre: Non-fiction
Reviewed by: Gary Sorkin
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Pacific Book Review
To read Gloria Parker’s book, it is best to first meet and understand Ms. Parker.
As a world famous celebrity in her youth and throughout her career in entertainment, Gloria, as I will take the liberty of addressing her, has had more than one lifetime’s accolade of achievements. Musically talented, articulate, spiritually enlightened, as well as beautiful and charming, Gloria has it all. From a voice actor on radio, her career cascaded into the early days of television. Her distinctive persona was exposed to millions whom may not recall her name, but if they transport themselves into a slight hypnotic retrospective memory, I bet often many may recall seeing or having heard her performances in their past. Yes, that happened to me, when I recalled seeing her “play” the glasses; a musical set of crystal wine glasses each filled and tuned to a note, played as an instrument, appeared in my memory like a dream sequence from a Fellini movie.
Her performances encompassed everything from solo renditions to staged events as she was highlighted whilst accompanied by other instruments in glamorous productions including even a full orchestra. A virtuoso of “Glasses” created Gloria’s reputation as a platform for her unique talent to achieve an acme position in the entertainment industry.
Aside from her unique musical skill and talent, Gloria has a candid and very frank voice when unveiling the truth, exposing the injustices of our legal system, and the evils inherent in our society when ordinary people are given extraordinary powers. Honor, both used in the English language as an adjective and noun, are bequeathed to our judges of which many of them have human frailties, and are faltered people, not immune to the weaknesses including alcoholism, but mostly susceptible to the absolute warping of values when granted absolute power under their control.
Outspoken, to perhaps a fault, Gloria highlights her own experiences being abused and dishonored by these very evil people warped by the greed of the American money-hungry system, payoffs, corruption and sexism of a chauvinistically “Good ol’boys club” of cloaked justices, cowering behind their robes of indecency bestowed upon them from the naive and apathetic public constituents they were empowered to protect.
Having a unique talent of design in which she takes into all aspects of her life, for example clothing design, Gloria takes an unconventional approach to the galley text of her book. Whimsically using bold type, capitalization, unconventionally combining underlined text with spacing layout, her book reads slowly, as these changes become literary “speed bumps” to the common reader. But putting that aside, again from the realization that the book is written by an unconventional author, we can then absorb the emotion and heightened frustration Gloria has scribed onto each and every page. Albeit at times a pontification of her values of right and wrong, along with ultimate honesty prevailing over others, Gloria bends the rules of literary compliance to accepted standards of English grammar.
A book that will be emotionally received at the edges of the bell curves by readers, the message is the venting of Gloria’s frustration and monetary losses within the legal system. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, could very well be the subtitle of Corruption Reigns in our Courtrooms.
