Matthew Groom

A book the pedophiles are bound to hate

Revisado: 09-13-19

Devon Stack has written an excellent, nuanced work of fiction about a very real and very present danger faced by American society: the illegitimacy of the ruling elites who own the media, control academia, and operate the Central Government (for it is in no ways federal). While this book is written with a bias for the political Right, it is a sensation felt by all Americans who still have eyes to see, and minds to think, even if there is disagreement about who the real enemy is. This work discusses the tactics taken by a fictional group of partisans in the current civil war as they seek to eliminate a representative group of the monsters who are slaughtering innocent people by the millions IRL. Who are the puppets, and who are the puppet masters? That is for the reader to decide.

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Your most dangerous enemy you refuse to see.

Revisado: 06-04-19

Diana West is the foremost researcher on Soviet infiltration into Western governments now that M. Stanton Evans has passed. In this book, she reveals the probable and likely ties that many of the anti-Trump conspirators have to the Kremlin based on their past associations with, and sometimes open praise of the Soviet Empire and its most notorious subversion arm, the KGB.

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Someday, I will have to visit Idaho.

Revisado: 11-28-17

Jim Goad has a wonderful way of pointing out how bigoted you probably are about things that you never really cared enough about to give much thought to. In this brief work, he gives us a perspective about Idaho that will probably expose the ignorance that all who have never visited that state and country probably harbor.

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This is NOT Von Clausewitz's work....

Revisado: 07-01-16

...but rather, a biological review of that work and a general overview of the period and the man. I felt deceived by the realization of this, since the author's choice of title, the cover, and the description provided by Audible gives no real indication of this. Rightly, this book should have been called "ON VON CLAUSEWITZ: An In-depth Investigation of His Classic On War"

If you are hoping to hear an abridged version of the classic treatise, this is not it. It is not a bad book, but if you have not read some translation of Von Clausewitz's On War previously, then this book is wholly unrelatable and confusing, since it's more of a study guide or review of it rather than a discussion of its ideas. Many years ago, I read some of "On War", and was still only loosely aware of much of what us referenced here.

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A series of vignettes of the damned

Revisado: 06-30-16

Cormac McCarthy seems to have written this as a meditation against drink. This is a story without heroes, where nobody ever makes the right choices, and their suffering is made worse by that knowledge. McCarthy is masterful in creating an atmosphere of the choking, filthy miasma and all-consuming poverty of drunkards, fiends, perverts, thieves, and losers circling the bowl of a district in Knoxville, TN called McAnally Flats in the 1950's.

All of the characters are very much like long festering roadkill one happens upon when walking somewhere; exactly as you found them when you leave them. If you like morals and character development and clever dialog, this is not for you.

If you like to feel slightly nauseous and wishing you could take a shower when you read, or if you have ever wondered what your life might feel like if you simply gave up, spent every dime you had on awful, low-quality spirits, and woke up sore throated, under a tree in a junkyard, covered in vomit, sunburnt, bug-bitten, reeking of piss and shit and semen which is hopefully your own, then this book will give you some idea of what you have to look forward to.

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Vibrant, compelling, and thought provoking.

Revisado: 02-20-15

Shantaram is a wonderfully complex and entertaining story that is so detailed in its scope and vivid in its descriptions that it should be considered a modern classic. Perhaps that is not strong enough. When you read most classics, they rarely live upto the hype surrounding them, which Gregory David Robert's work has no problem exceeding.

The performance of the narrator, Humphrey Bower, is perhaps the best single-actor performance I have personally experienced. The vast and diverse cast of characters each has their own unique voice, tone, inflection, and accent which are so expertly delivered that you forget it is just one man delivering them.

I usually try to think if some sober, detached reason to dislike a work, even one which I enjoy, but I have no negative points to note. Five stars because I cannot elect to offer six.

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It was okay until the end

Revisado: 12-04-08

This audiobook is a somewhat interesting account of the deadliest out break of Cholera in London's storied history of outbreaks. It gives an interesting account of city life for lower class Londoners of the day and insights as to how the medical and scientific community of the day operated. It gets a bit dry after the first half, and the ending of the book leaves the subject almost entirely to speculate about the future threats of bioterrorism and nuclear warfare.

The "Conclusion" and "Epilogue" of this audiobook are full of proselytizing about the greatness and moral superiority of city dwellers who are apparently more intelligent, more tolerant, more environmentally conscious, just all around better people. This was written by an inhabitant of NYC who says he would only move after 50,000 people had died in a viral catastrophe, and then only reluctantly.

He also theorizes that cities are more likely to survive a long term shortage of oil, since people in cities don't drive cars as often. This is laughable. How does food get into the city? ON A TRUCK. Also ships. How does it get from the port? ON A TRUCK. What do trucks (and most ships) need to run? Oil and gas.

There is also a good bit of detail about how viruses work and how the microbial world operates, but this books insight is greatly damaged by implying that people who believe in God are superstitious obstructionists, since God cannot be proven, but people who are not willing to betray a peaceful and spacious existence outside of cities are an affront to mother Gaia, since Gaia is DEFINITELY real. No proof required.

Other than the political proselytizing and speculation, this is an okay book.

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The best PIG to date

Revisado: 05-16-08

I have read or listened to nearly every one of the "Politically Incorrect Guide" series since I first found Thomas E. Woods Jr.'s "Politically Incorrect Guide to American History". While all of these books are good, some are better than others. If I had to pick one for it's historical insight, accurate articulation of ideas and concepts, and fascinating evaluations of legal rulings, it would be Kevin R. C. Gutzman's "Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution". I would consider this book a "must read" for anyone interested in American History or the US Legal system.

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