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“This book made me weep.”
pebble garden wrote this review Thursday, November 6 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“What Stuart Archer Cohen lacks in literary finesse, he sure makes up for it in a stark political diatribe set in the narratives of each character.
clyde m wrote this review Tuesday, September 23 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
He takes us to a very scary world where terrorists are really freedom fighters just trying to restore democracy. In this future the democracy is gone, the government is run over by corporations, and we have a real battle of wills between father and son who are on opposite sides of the spectrum.
Unfortunately, this author has not had to starve in his life, otherwise this would have been written with a more stark reality. Revolutions only foment when the mass of people are starving.
Nonetheless, this was a good read, had a good Seattle feel to it. As I was turning pages, I kept on hearing Audioslave, "Show Me How to Live." It was very fast paced, but the ending fell flat. I won't spoil it for you though. This is still a good read and Cohen really nails the current administration for the last eight years right on the head.
If you liked this book, you will also like the book, "Doublethink."”
“At first I looked at it as a cautionary tale about what could happen over here in the US if we continue to be as complacent as we are about our civil rights. And I still think that’s partly what makes the book interesting.
Kym L wrote this review Tuesday, August 26 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
It was a somewhat complex book in that there were so many things to think about—the idea of pictures (television) vs. words (newspapers, blogs, magazines, etc) controlling how people view what’s happening; the concept that things we assume belong to the public being treated as a commodity (the “privatization of rain” was an interesting thought); and how things are never black and white.
Ultimately, though, what I found most interesting was how the different groups worked together to protest the loss of the liberties we take for granted. Since the author bio stated that he working in South America familiarized him with with how revolutionary groups function, one has to assume he knows what he’s talking about. It made me think about how Iraq and other countries exist in such a state of unrest, where no one is really in charge, just various groups who have somewhat the same goal, but different views of exactly what it is and how to achieve it.
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