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Summary: Time for Leon Uris to retire! This was terrible.
Review: I expected much more than Uris gave. He seemed stuck in the '60's. Everytime a middle-aged man spoke, he ended with "man". The plot was convoluted, very difficult to follow.It offended me that when the presidential candidate found out that he was Jewish, Uris predicted rioting and anarchy. There was too much going on in this book, jumping from sub-plot to sub-plot.
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Summary: what a disappointment
Review: I've loved just about everything else Uris wrote, but not this one . . . almost did not finish it! . . . the premise of the story was a good one, but there were long passages that were almost painful to read . . . I'm glad I was able to skim through them quickly . . . don't waste your time.
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Summary: An insult to Leon Uris fans. Give this one a miss.
Review: A God in Ruins is so bad, I wonder if Leon Uris actually wrote it. The first third of the book lays the groundwork for a story that goes nowhere, the characters are one-dimensional, he gets the technical details wrong throughout the book and some narrative descriptions are so flowery I had to stop reading to laugh! Worst of all, Mr. Uris uses this novel as a pulpit to lecture about gun control and aggrandize the Clintons. Where were his editors? I have read all previous Uris novels, many of them twice. A God in Ruins is so bad it is exploitive of Uris readers. This book was my last from this author and this publisher.
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Summary: An Almost Treacherous Disappointment
Review: I actually felt betrayed. The book, and especially the dialogue, reads like a seventies TV miniseries. Very shallow, stereotyped characters, a ridiculous plot, overt moralizing, and an anticlimactic climax. The only -- and I mean the only -- interesting thing in the book is a commando rescue mission in the middle of the book. The editors deserve special blame, not only for missing obvious mistakes but also for not trying to whip the book into shape.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: At least I only spent $1 to read this book from the library's rental collection. It falls far short of the author's earlier works. And where were the editors? Too many silly, silly mistakes: Milta Pass; Snyder (Snider); Camp (Campy); Greet for Greer; Eastern time 3 hours behind Pacific; main for Maine; prairie schoolers for prairie schooners; etc., etc. Apparently, the editors relied too much on their computer's spellchecker. I read to the end because it was Mr. Uris, but this book lacks real characters, is mostly unbelievable and is just too shallow. I could put up with the political (I agree with a lot of it), but whitewashing the Clintons turned me off. If you can't do better Mr. Uris (and HarperCollins), please hang it up.
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Summary: I wish I had read other reviews before tackling this book
Review: I liked the way this book started. Then midway, I lost interest in the lives and times of the characters. This should have been done as an 750-word opinion piece on Clinton and gun control.
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Summary: Very very disappointed
Review: I wish I had read the reviews before just buying on the strength of the other books I read of this author - and enjoyed thoroughly! This one had a good plot and that's were it stopped. I found it disjointed, disorganized and I kept on looking on the cover page for something that indicated a co-author! IMHO this was a good plot that fell flat on its backside by bad writing.
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Summary: a terrible disappointment
Review: I have just returned from a long holiday car trip with "God in Ruins" on 10 cassettes. I finished 5 and decided even radio would be better. I have read almost all Uris' other books, several twice, so I expected great things. Was I ever disappointed! The sex scenes were the fantasies of an old man, real bodice rippers--but utterly unbelievable. Then I was subjected to several chapters of Tom Clancyish war scenes with brains dripping off the ceiling, etc. Gratuitous gore! In short, it takes a really bad book for me not to finish it. It saddens me to see someone who has been so great fall so far. Where were his editors?
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Summary: If I start a book, I finish it - but this one wasn't easy!
Review: A new book by Leon Uris! Of course I would buy it! I could hardly wait to read it. I didn't bother reading the reviews. Too bad! It was one of the worst books from one of the (once) best writers. If the name Leon Uris hadn't been on the cover, I would have thought it written by/for junior high school. And such corny, one dimensional characters! AARRGGHH! and UGH!
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Summary: Awful. Re-read one of Uris' earlier books instead.
Review: Had this been a first novel, the author would have collected rejection letters from every publisher in town. Technically flawed, sophomoric dialog and descriptions, paper-thin characters and badly edited to boot. A God in Ruins is a thinly disguised vehicle for the author's liberal agenda, nothing more. For shame, Mr. Uris.
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