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Not a book but guerrilla therapy session

Revisado: 05-28-24

Throughout this book, I felt not like a reader but her therapist, like "Graham, not his real name", but whereas he was at least getting paid for it, I was getting nothing in return: the writing is not particularly poetic (even the birds metaphor felt like an artificial distraction pulled by its wings from the the skull-aching frustration of being forced to witness someone's screwed-up life), no "turnaround and finally stand up for yourself" inspiring moral, just chapter after chapter of her submitting to abusive people and circumstances and not changing her behaviour to finally take charge of her life. And finally, all the "positive" that eventually happens in her life, happens by chance, happens *to her*, none of it is of her initiative, and she submits to the good outcome with the same weakness as she submitted to her abusive mother, husband and her life.

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Too political, even for Clancy...

Revisado: 07-09-13

If you’ve listened to books by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney before, how does this one compare?

Perhaps to coincide with Obama's reelection, Clancy packs this one full of political caricatures. Those with imagination can recognize these characterizations as fiction, as the rest of the events in the book. But for most of the dimwits, this makes a perfect Republican recruitment pamflet.

The storyline is disjointed, meandering. Really, seems like the whole point of the book was to portray the Democratic White House as evil as possible right before the elections...

As a contrast, I thought Clancy was able to keep his politics out of his books and deliver a superb book - Threat Vector was excellent and I would highly recommend it!

Lou Diamond Phillips is the best!

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