Posted on September 3, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
You know, even with a site named Scathing Book Reviews, I often feel sorry for the writer who gets pilloried by bad reviews, even though getting a One Star from someone named BigTuna34JerseyBoy on Amazon isn’t the same as getting a nasty review from Michiko Kakutani. However, in the case of Reviews of Mein Kampf, by [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Obama Nation, by Jerome Corsi is certainly the quintessential election year book. I don’t know if Jerome Corsi believes everything he writes, but he’s certainly a canny author. What better way to get book sales than to write a book attacking a major presidential candidate? You’re sure to appeal to the base of the opposing [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Faith of My Fathers(2000) by John McCainmade a splash when it was originally published, but nothing to compare to The Audacity of Hope. On the other hand, Barack Obama’s book has yet to be turned into a TV Movieso I guess that means that John McCain, by the Kevin Bacon rule, has closer connections to [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
“Don’t talk about politics!” is usually good advice, but in the case of Political Books, the book reviews are so juicy that heck, why not? Today I”ll do The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama. Tomorrow I’ll do books written by John McCain. Dennis Kucinich? Uh, maybe later. Much later.
The Audacity of Hope by Barack [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand has produced two immortal questions. The first is “Who is John Galt?”, which the book answers. The second is “How the heck do you pronounce ‘Ayn’”? The book is over 1000 pages long, and can be seen primarily as an expression of political philosophy rather than a true “novel”. Atlas [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
1984 by George Orwell was once broadly viewed as a warning of things to come in a possible future. Now its seen, more correctly, as a criticism of forms of both thinking and political behavior, specifically of the Soviet Union, but of all governments in general. I read it simply because back in [...]
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Posted on January 11, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
100 People Who are Screwing Up America…and Al Franken is #37 by Bernard Goldberg is a book that has a fairly equal balance of 5 Star and 1 Star reviews. Conservatives go out of their way to praise it. Liberals go out of their way to denigrate it. I don’t know [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2008 by scathingbookreviews
Animal Farm, by George Orwell has one of the most misleading titles you could ever imagine. Bottom line, no matter how much your child likes farms, animals or Charlotte’s Web, don’t give this book to them as a birthday present. If you do, they may start singing “Old MacDonald” to the tune [...]
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