2084: The Year of the Liberal

Rating:
Summary: Hilarious And Thoughtprovoking
Review: David Hale's "2084: The Year of the Liberal" is an uproariously entertaining political satire. Well-paced and scathingly accurate, Mr. Hale's no-holds-barred style of writing has a proverbial field day with the societal disease known as political correctness. "2084" will be immensely appealing to conservative readers; downright maddening to liberal audiences; and food-for-thought for moderate-thinking individuals. Kudos to Mr. Hale for knowing that there is an undeniable relationship between truth and humor; in other words, the more truthful you are when you satirize something, the funnier your writing will be.

Rating:
Summary: JESUS, THAT BOOK IS FUNNY!
Review: David Hale's "2084: The Year of the Liberal" is an uproariously entertaining political satire. Well-paced and scathingly accurate, Mr. Hale's no-holds-barred style of writing has a proverbial field day with the societal disease known as political correctness. "2084" will be immensely appealing to conservative readers; downright maddening to liberal audiences; and food-for-thought for moderate-thinking individuals. Kudos to Mr. Hale for knowing that there is an undeniable relationship between truth and humor; in other words, the more truthful you are when you satirize something, the funnier your writing will be.

Rating:
Summary: JESUS, THAT BOOK IS FUNNY!
Review: Hale has got something good going here! Ridiculous? Yes! Mean spirited? You bet! The libs deserve every jibe to their naked and tender backsides this razor witted satire can dish up--and it dishes up plenty! I can't wait for Hale's next one! Take that, commie pinkos!

Rating:
Summary: The writing is almost worse than the message.
Review: I find myself amazed that anyone could find this book "clever" or "biting" in the least. It's a hardly even a novel - it's basically a collection of rants thinly veiled under an even tone.

The only intriguing part related to the book, for me, is that some people really believe his charming "message:"
-Affirmative action is almost the same as kidnapping non-white men and women and forcing them to work at certain jobs.
-There's a vast liberal conspiracy to destroy heterosexual relationships and force as many people as possible into homosexuality.
-Rape and sexual harassment accusations *from women* are a feminist conspiracy: no woman ever really tells the truth about those things.
-Rape against men, however, does happen and it's a horrible thing, but liberals think it's insensitive to call the rapist on his actions.
-AIDS only affects homosexuals and drug users.
-Multiculturalism is disgusting.
-Non-traditional gender roles are disgusting.
-Non-heterosexuals are disgusting.
-Non-whites are disgusting.
-Rush Limbaugh is god-like in his wisdom, and feared by the left for his, well, god-like wisdom.
-If everyone saw things The Way They Really Were, they'd magically and instantly turn conservative.

All of these statements are affirmed proudly and without an ounce of cleverness in the book. I have no idea why it wasn't just published as one of the endless conservative rant books - it's not as if he has any skill as a novelist.

Rating:
Summary: BELLY LAUGHS GALORE!
Review: If you want a farce that takes a swipe at all things liberal, this is the tome for you. The PC among us will hate this book but then that's their loss. For the rest of us, it's about time Hale came along and blasted the PC crowd.

Rating:
Summary: THIS IS ONE FUNNY BOOK!
Review: POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS AT ITS FINEST, HALE HAS DONE IT ON THIS ONE. I'D NEVER HEARD OF HIM BEFORE WHEN I PICKED THIS UP AT MY LIBRARY AND WOW! THE WRITING ISN'T PERFECT BUT THE BELLYLAUGHS ARE WORTH IT. IF YOU'RE NOT AFRAID TO READ SOMETHING OFF THE WALL AND YOU AREN'T A CLINTONISTA, THIS BOOK'S FOR YOU.

Rating:
Summary: Funnnnny!
Review: This absurd little story made me laugh more than any book I can remember. And the liberals deserve every word of it. I've never heard of David Hale before, but I'm looking forward to his next one!

Rating:
Summary: BELLY LAUGHS GALORE!
Review: While Hale tries to manage a vulpine sequel to? parody of? Orwell's 1984, he succeeds only in tirading relentlessly about the injustices of the public's recollection of Ronald Reagan's presidency -- and this isn't necessarily the best scheme for a novel set in 2084, 100 years after Reagan's term. Perhaps if Hale had explained or shown why the 80's had had such a lasting effect or used more subtlty in setting up his argument, I would have believed him, but plot and subtlty are definitely secondary to the narrator's opinion that the media denigrated and continues to denigrate the "great" Reagan unfairly. Regardless of whether you love or hate the former chief of state, you'll tire by the tenth or eleventh rant debunking accusations against him.