Rating: 
Summary: Transparently liberal
Review: Unlike a reader from Potomac, Maryland I was not fortunate enought to have read a review of A God In Ruins before picking up a books-on-tape copy. If I had not already invested three hours of listening to get to the crux of the story, I would have trashed it. Leon beats the idea of repealing the 2nd amendment to death, going so far as to coining a pro-gun organization known as Amerigun. In his book, a so-called conservative, Republican organization smuggles thousands of machine pistols into the US , but are stopped by the heroics of an orphan Russian who switched from Republican to Democrat to become the Governor of Colorado and who is raised Catholic only to discover he is really Jewish on the eve of being elected President, this setting off riots of skinheads, the KKK, and black muslims. (I know, don't ask)As if this was biased enough, the Russian Catholic Jewish Presidential candidate laments how Bill and Hillary Clinton had had their careers destroyed by the unfair sniping of the GOP and the media. Poor Bill was faced with describing oral sex with an intern as a non-issue before the nation. Give me a break. On second thought, 2 stars may have been too high a rating. Leon has gone on to his reward and I can't confront him in this world and won't waste my time in the next. I can, however, warn you away from this book unless Bill and Hillary are heros of yours.
Rating: 
Summary: An Author in Ruins is more like it.
Review: After reading Leon Uris since I was in High School more than 25 years ago, I was so grossly disappointed by this book that I had to rethink my feelings of all of the Uris books of my past. I actually wonder if he really wrote this book or if some liberal pupil of his from Columbia conned him into letting him use his name for this worthless, poorly edited, cartoonishly poor work of strawman arguments. The "author" (yeah, right) is obvious in his desire to grind his politically liberal axe in the face of the average western American male. Mixed metaphor? Of course. Every character becomes a sterotypical caricature. The liberal politics are obvious. The editing is amateurish. And the story isn't even very interesting. Pretend Mr. Uris stopped writing after Redemption. Pretend he died with thoughts of the Irish free of politcal and religious turmoil and his notoriety will be saved.
Rating:
Summary: an absolute waste of time
Review: I would have given this less than one star were that an option. There is nothing kind I can say about this pointless book. I question if Leon Uris even read this book let alone wrote it. I did finish it and kept waiting for something to catch my interest but that never happened.
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