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Summary: OUTSTANDING,SIMPLY OUTSTANDING.
Review: DR PIECZENIK IS A WORLD FAMOUS CRISIS PSYCHOLOGIST.HE BRINGS THIS KNOWLEDGE TO THE TABLE IN THIS OUTSTANDING THRILLER.THE PACE OF THE BOOK IS FAST AND EXCITING.ALSO,IN A TWIST FROM MOST THRILLERS, FOR ONCE THE WOMAN IN NOT THE VICTIM SHE`S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE HEROES. I READ SOME OF THE SOCALLED CRITICAL REVIEWS ON THIS BOOK AND AS USUAL THESE CRITICS FORGET THE BOOK IS ABOUT FUN AND ENJOYMENT.IF YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK. ENJOY!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Pieczenik needs to pay attention to what he writes
Review: Dr. Pieczenik has tossed off another techno-thriller that lacks a believeable plot. In addition it is often internally inconsistant. If you accept his premises and plot twists you are a better man than I. By the way, Dr. Piecznik knows that if you accept the basic premise of a paranoid personality, he makes perfectly good sense also. While we don't expect well-developed people in this genera, his fall below even such low expectations. Finally a 10th grade English teacher would not accept the gramatical errors which occur throughout the book. While I've enjoyed Dr. Pieczenic's collaborations with Tom Clancy, my first outing with him as sole author was a major disappointment.
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Summary: Pieczenik needs to pay attention to what he writes
Review: Dr. Pieczenik has tossed off another techno-thriller that lacks a believeable plot. In addition it is often internally inconsistant. If you accept his premises and plot twists you are a better man than I. By the way, Dr. Piecznik knows that if you accept the basic premise of a paranoid personality, he makes perfectly good sense also. While we don't expect well-developed people in this genera, his fall below even such low expectations. Finally a 10th grade English teacher would not accept the gramatical errors which occur throughout the book. While I've enjoyed Dr. Pieczenic's collaborations with Tom Clancy, my first outing with him as sole author was a major disappointment.
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Summary: Way to go Steve!
Review: I have read this book and can honestly say that it is a quality read. I think the premise for the book is a winner. After reading it, I believe the actual book is a winner too. The story kept my attention throughout. The opening scene in the dam grabbed my attention and held on throughout the book. The seemingly improbable situation always manages too nag the reader with the question "What if this really happened?" After reading Mr. Pieczenik's credentials, I have the fear that he might know something about the future that we don't. I thought this was a great book to sit down and read for hours on end. The book flowed well and had a page-turning story. What else can you want from a book? I hope to see more from Mr. Pieczenik in the future.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I picked out this book because Steve R. Pieczenik is the co-creator of Tom Clancy's Op-Center books, which I've enjoyed. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with this book. The dialogue in the first few chapters feels forced. Eventually the action picked up and the book became more fun, but the first third or so was really difficult to get through. I also found the timelines difficult to believe. Each chapter begins with a location and time stamp. However, the elapsed time doesn't seem long enough for the characters to have covered the distance between story locations. This was so bad that I ended up just ignoring the time stamps completely. Once the action picks up, this isn't a bad thriller, but it starts too slowly, and has too many inconsistencies to be an outstanding book.
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Summary: I couldn't even finish it.
Review: I read several dozen books every year, and it's rare that I don't finish a book. After reading about a fourth of the book, I had to move on to something more interesting. The characters are absolutely boring. The action is nonexistent. The plot is slow. There's no suspense. I expected much, much more after reading several of the books that he and Clancy wrote.
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Summary: Not worth the paper it's printed on
Review: It's true, this book does have a fascinating premise. It's true, the author doers have good insight into the mindset of America's "False Patriots". It's true, this could be a good book.And it would be if it wasn't confusing and inconsistant. One moment she's the Prime Minister of France, the next a renegade Foreign Minister. One minute he's a doctor, the next a top level diplomat. The author jumps through time and circumstance, sometimes reffering to events that haven't happened yet. And worse, the 'sympathetic' heroes are not. In fact, they are unapologetically guilty of exactly the crimes the 'antagonists' accuse them of. This could be a great book--certainly a great story--but in the end it falls short.
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Summary: Interesting premise, but sloppily written
Review: The idea of four western states seceding from the Union is fascinating, but I was frequently distracted by poor writing. The most glaring error is that Pieczenik apparently thinks Lake Powell is below Glen Canyon Dam; either he doesn't understand how dams work, or he never did on-site research. In another geographic error, Al Carter and Cheri flee the secessionists by floating down the Snake River from Grand Teton to Yellowstone--a gravity-defying feat, since the Snake rises in Yellowstone and flows from there to Grand Teton before turning west into Idaho. Another major distraction was the very simple French-language dialogue between the between the French Prime Minister (or perhaps Foreign Minister--Pieczenik isn't clear on this point) and Al Carter. Pieczenik provides translations, and in at least one instance, I needed his translation, because the verb "se renconter" does not exist in French--I think the word Pieczenik was looking for was "se rendre compte". In any case, two people who are both presumably fluent in French would not be using such simple construction and vocabulary to speak to each other. Bottom line: I'm glad I borrowed this book from the library, rather than buying it.
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Summary: Interesting premise, but sloppily written
Review: The idea of four western states seceding from the Union is fascinating, but I was frequently distracted by poor writing. The most glaring error is that Pieczenik apparently thinks Lake Powell is below Glen Canyon Dam; either he doesn't understand how dams work, or he never did on-site research. In another geographic error, Al Carter and Cheri flee the secessionists by floating down the Snake River from Grand Teton to Yellowstone--a gravity-defying feat, since the Snake rises in Yellowstone and flows from there to Grand Teton before turning west into Idaho. Another major distraction was the very simple French-language dialogue between the between the French Prime Minister (or perhaps Foreign Minister--Pieczenik isn't clear on this point) and Al Carter. Pieczenik provides translations, and in at least one instance, I needed his translation, because the verb "se renconter" does not exist in French--I think the word Pieczenik was looking for was "se rendre compte". In any case, two people who are both presumably fluent in French would not be using such simple construction and vocabulary to speak to each other. Bottom line: I'm glad I borrowed this book from the library, rather than buying it.
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Summary: Badly written, highly racist, bigoted book with silly plot
Review: The is one of those reviews where it is difficult to know where to start. It is a very stupid story in which the governors of Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming try to secede from the union. The first plot problem is the people of these states would never go along with it. However, the author explains that since the population of these states is highly Christian, they'll just follow along like sheep. As a matter of fact at one point, the author goes so far as to say that since Christians believe Christ will return at the time of the final battle between good and evil, they actually would want a civil war. At another point, he lumps the Christian Coalition in with the neonazis and skinheads as hate groups who want a war. Excuse me, but if such terms were used against Jews or Moslems, the author would be considered to be bigoted against those religions; the same goes for his views against Christians(and I, for the record, am an agonistic). Secondly, a civil war between the US and these states would last about 5 minutes. Now I must go on to my second point. I don't care what race or sex characters have, as long as this is not used for an excuse for bigotry in the popular literature. This book, is, in my opinion, as bigoted against caucasians as "the Turner Diaries" is against blacks and Jews. All the "bad guys" in the book are caucasian(though at least they are both male and female), and the author goes out of his way to stress this. At one point, it mentions that the black secretary of state has had to "clean up" the errors of the unfeeling protestant white males who proceeded her in the job. It is stressed that the FBI group moving against the secessionists are 60% minority and gay and then stresses that this is not because of affirmative action. It stresses that England, France and Germany are pushing secession because they want to recreate their old worldwide empires iwht white domination of the world(wouldn't China or one of the Middle Eastern countries be a more probable enemy). I'm not nitpicking on this issue, race and religion are stressed throughout this book! To sum up: Christian and White are bad; minority and gay are good! It is fearful when such a hate filled book enters the popular literature. Bottom line:this book isn't fit to be used as toilet paper!
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