Kendall

Só besteira

Revisado: 03-24-21

Sem história, sem complô, sem desenvolvimento psicológico das personagens. Ao final, sem interesse exceto para os viciados em pornografia.

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Another Right-Wing Nut Dystopia

Revisado: 05-29-16

I've read through several of these right-wing, survivalist, apocalyptic novels by now. There are all bad, very bad, but this one may be the worst of the lot. Novelistically, they break all the rules, and they this do it willy-nilly, without good reason so that it makes this seem amateur (which they are). "United States of Apocalypse" does all that and more. The plot is vanishingly thin with two different stories lines it never connects, has us believe a backward, pariah nation like North Korea is able to mount a coalition of all America's neighbors, sneak multiple nuclear warheads into the country ALL of them undetected then make the unfathnable deductions to detonate them at different time. The United States government barely responds to any of this. And these are just starters. If you like this kind of nonsense, you may like this. Otherwise. save you money.

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Great story, fun read

Revisado: 04-04-15

Probably not a Great book, but the author is a great storyteller, though not for the faint of heart. You'll have a good read.

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More YA

Revisado: 02-02-15

Well crafted novel and, one imagines, just what the youth market is looking for. At least, its resemblance to 'The Hunger Games', 'Divergent'. the Maze Runner' can hardly be incidental.

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Cheating for God

Revisado: 01-30-15

In modern times when most scientist are atheists, The author posits the ideal that alien scientists have come to the opposite conclusion. It's an interesting idea but are unlikely to change anyone's mind since the arguments don't change. To make its point"Calculating God" must create signs and wonders that are clearly products of the writers imagination. In my world that is called cooking the books. Part of the problem is that he must present science as theists and/or Creationists habitually misrepresent it. Again, not fair. at least, if we are trying to get at the truth. But then, maybe we're not, and it is a good read.

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OSS & EV

Revisado: 01-13-15

This book is a disappointment. In spite of a clever concept and a reasonably good plot, there are too many OSSs and EVs. The acronyms stand for Obligatory Sex Scene amend Excessive Violence especially when they exist only for themselves and their titallation and not that help drive the story line. In this case there were so many of them and they were so gratuatous that I found myself forgetting what the story was about. Perhaps editors, and publishers insist on this because they think it will sell more books. Maybe I don't have the stats but they hurt the quality of the bookand deprive me of a recommendation.

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Must reading for Feminists

Revisado: 01-09-15

Fathers have taken a beating in recent years, not just from Feminists but from the media and from lazy writers of fiction. It's a bad rap. This book sets the record straight with a lot more than what level-headed people knew already. Research is confirming that fathers do make a difference. If we don't understand that, the difference will be negativem. If we do,it may be positive.

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Much ado about nihilism

Revisado: 01-05-15

This book had to be good, right? I mean a major motion picture, bestseller list,competent writer with an ear for striking metaphors; how could we go wrong?but In the end there is nothing. The characters go their dysfunctional ways, wallow in their disloyalties, practice their incompetencies; and learn, from all appearances, nothing.

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Disguised right-wing screed

Revisado: 05-08-14

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Fox News addicts

Has Intellectuals and Society turned you off from other books in this genre?

No. It is not what it purports to be.

Any additional comments?

A very disappointing and misleading book. Without close examination, it looks like a serious study of the role of intellectuals. It isn't. It is a screed. First promoting various notions which have seized Right Wing America, then showing how, through history, the same impulse has destroyed just about everything it touches. There are interesting ideas in the book, but the interesting ones are old. Where ideas are new, they're tendentious or selective or straw men.

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Overrated, overwrought, overdone, and overblown

Revisado: 03-29-13

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would not recommend this book to my friends, though I might consider recommending it to my enemies if I thought they would listen.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Infinite Jest, by David Wallace Foster

What about Samuel L. Jackson’s performance did you like?

Samuel Jackson was his usual competent self and you could feel him struggling to save a trifling rant, which is a distraction and not a good thing. Jackson gets five stars for performance, but if there were a category for judgment in material selection, it would be only one.

Do you think Go the F--k to Sleep needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

"Go the f**k to Sleep" is as good an argument as I've come across for censorship. So, no, no follow-up. Pleeeease.

Any additional comments?

After reading the reviews of "Go the f**k to Sleep", I may be stoned (in the Biblical sense) for absolutely hating it; but me, it did not engage and its language grossed me out.

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