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Manufacturer: Atria
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671023171
ISBN: 0671023179
Label: Atria
Manufacturer: Atria
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 403
Publication Date: 1998-06-01
Publisher: Atria
Studio: Atria
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Summary: If only
Comment: If only some House cleaning, and Senate cleaning, would happen from the correct position as this book illustrates. Of course it was panned in the official reviews since with rare exception the media and reviewers are all members of the wrong not part of the right. They of course fail to see the right/wrong as they only see liberal/stupid when they are the stupid ones. This may not be the best book ever written but it is certainly a four star book and the courage to write it in the face of certain criticism earns it the last star.
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Summary: A simple good guy - bad guy tale, but I'm not sure there's a good guy.
Comment: It's an enjoyable read -- fast, simple and set in my home town (sort of). But I cannot get past the fact that the murder of elected officials gets glossed over as a moral ambiguity, as if there is some arguable equivalence between taking (by violence) lives of congressmen and the associated benefits of balancing the budget. It reminds me of the Schwartzenegger line in "True Lies," "Yes, but they were all bad."
It's not as if that moral issue is heavily weighed or discussed, either. The reader is expected to jump right past it (versus accepting the fact that a CHARACTER has absorbed and jumped past it), and clearly many of the reviewers seem OK with it.
So, it's a simple tale of good and evil, except I cannot find anyone who is clearly good.
I also need to add that Flynn has decided to fictionalize the topography and streets in DC. It certainly was not necessary, and to me it suggests a lack of basic research. And one nit: In the edition I'm reading, they refer repeatedly to the back seat of a vehicle as the "backseat." When did it become one word???
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Summary: Good book with hints of better things to come
Comment: I knew when I read this book I would end up being a Flynn fan. He was a new author and still managed to put out a really good story. Later books would end up being better but still a good read.
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Summary: Another outstanding Flynn book!
Comment: I believe this is the first of the Flynn books and you can tell that right from the get go he charged right to the top of many people's favorite author list! He certainly did make it to mine. I'm reading all his books in order now, having bought half of them, my son the other half so we can share.
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Summary: MUST READ!!!
Comment: Vince Flynn's first book is goes absolutely to the heart of most conservative Americans! It is a MUST READ, one of the best books I've ever read and enjoyed. I have read it three times already.
It continues to amaze me how Vince Flynn had the vision and his finger on the pulse of radical Islam BEFORE 9/11. Just amazing.
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Summary: If only
Comment: If only some House cleaning, and Senate cleaning, would happen from the correct position as this book illustrates. Of course it was panned in the official reviews since with rare exception the media and reviewers are all members of the wrong not part of the right. They of course fail to see the right/wrong as they only see liberal/stupid when they are the stupid ones. This may not be the best book ever written but it is certainly a four star book and the courage to write it in the face of certain criticism earns it the last star.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A simple good guy - bad guy tale, but I'm not sure there's a good guy.
Comment: It's an enjoyable read -- fast, simple and set in my home town (sort of). But I cannot get past the fact that the murder of elected officials gets glossed over as a moral ambiguity, as if there is some arguable equivalence between taking (by violence) lives of congressmen and the associated benefits of balancing the budget. It reminds me of the Schwartzenegger line in "True Lies," "Yes, but they were all bad."
It's not as if that moral issue is heavily weighed or discussed, either. The reader is expected to jump right past it (versus accepting the fact that a CHARACTER has absorbed and jumped past it), and clearly many of the reviewers seem OK with it.
So, it's a simple tale of good and evil, except I cannot find anyone who is clearly good.
I also need to add that Flynn has decided to fictionalize the topography and streets in DC. It certainly was not necessary, and to me it suggests a lack of basic research. And one nit: In the edition I'm reading, they refer repeatedly to the back seat of a vehicle as the "backseat." When did it become one word???
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good book with hints of better things to come
Comment: I knew when I read this book I would end up being a Flynn fan. He was a new author and still managed to put out a really good story. Later books would end up being better but still a good read.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Another outstanding Flynn book!
Comment: I believe this is the first of the Flynn books and you can tell that right from the get go he charged right to the top of many people's favorite author list! He certainly did make it to mine. I'm reading all his books in order now, having bought half of them, my son the other half so we can share.
Customer Rating:
Summary: MUST READ!!!
Comment: Vince Flynn's first book is goes absolutely to the heart of most conservative Americans! It is a MUST READ, one of the best books I've ever read and enjoyed. I have read it three times already.
It continues to amaze me how Vince Flynn had the vision and his finger on the pulse of radical Islam BEFORE 9/11. Just amazing.
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