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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WON'T SAVE YOU
Former Army Ranger Jake Rivers is not your typical Kelton College student. He is not spoiled, coddled, or ultra-lib like his classmates who sneer at the "soldier boy."
Rivers is not "triggered" by "microaggressions." He is not outraged by "male privilege" and"cisgender bathrooms." He does not need a "safe space." Or coloring books. Jake needs an education. And when terror strikes, the school needs Jake . . .
Without warning, the sounds of gunfire plunge the campus into a battle zone. A violent gang of marauders invade the main hall, taking students as hostages for big ransom money. As a veteran and patriot, Jake won't give in to their demands. But to fight back, he needs to enlist his fellow classmates to school these special snowflakes in the not-so-liberal art of war. This time, the aggression isn't "micro." It's life or death. And only the strong survive . . .
Former Army Ranger Jake Rivers is not your typical Kelton College student. He is not spoiled, coddled, or ultra-lib like his classmates who sneer at the "soldier boy."
Rivers is not "triggered" by "microaggressions." He is not outraged by "male privilege" and"cisgender bathrooms." He does not need a "safe space." Or coloring books. Jake needs an education. And when terror strikes, the school needs Jake . . .
Without warning, the sounds of gunfire plunge the campus into a battle zone. A violent gang of marauders invade the main hall, taking students as hostages for big ransom money. As a veteran and patriot, Jake won't give in to their demands. But to fight back, he needs to enlist his fellow classmates to school these special snowflakes in the not-so-liberal art of war. This time, the aggression isn't "micro." It's life or death. And only the strong survive . . .
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 28, 2018
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William W. Johnstone
843Ìýbooks1,323ÌýfollowersWilliam W. Johnstone is the #1 bestselling Western writer in America and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hundreds of books, with over 50 million copies sold. Born in southern Missouri, he was raised with strong moral and family values by his minister father, and tutored by his schoolteacher mother. He left school at fifteen to work in a carnival and then as a deputy sheriff before serving in the army. He went on to become known as "the Greatest Western writer of the 21st Century." Visit him online at WilliamJohnstone.net.
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July 2, 2018
No. Just no. Absolutely fucking not.
Thanks to Kensington Books and Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book so I could post this one star review with actual knowledge of just how awful this book is.
If you looked at the blurb for this book and thought to yourself "this is a joke, right? It's April Fools or something", just wait until you read some of the actual book. Oh god. I won't even deign to quote. But no, this is not one of those books where the disillusioned lead goes to college and, I don't know, learns something. Instead, the author—who hasn't set foot on a modern college campus, probably ever, and certainly has never met anyone who went to college—gives us exactly the example of a snowflake paradise we can expect of someone who thinks that just because we want to learn, we can't be brave. Snowflakes don't know what to do besides melt when it gets warm, or some shit.
Fuck that noise.
You like this guy's books? Bully for you. You can keep him.
Thanks to Kensington Books and Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book so I could post this one star review with actual knowledge of just how awful this book is.
If you looked at the blurb for this book and thought to yourself "this is a joke, right? It's April Fools or something", just wait until you read some of the actual book. Oh god. I won't even deign to quote. But no, this is not one of those books where the disillusioned lead goes to college and, I don't know, learns something. Instead, the author—who hasn't set foot on a modern college campus, probably ever, and certainly has never met anyone who went to college—gives us exactly the example of a snowflake paradise we can expect of someone who thinks that just because we want to learn, we can't be brave. Snowflakes don't know what to do besides melt when it gets warm, or some shit.
Fuck that noise.
You like this guy's books? Bully for you. You can keep him.
Shelved as 'zzzzz-coverporn-etc'
January 21, 2019I know we all had a lot of questions about this, so I was so grateful when my favorite Reviewer of Bad Things, , posted her review. and it was wild, of course, but then it dropped the biggest twist of my entire life into our laps? Guys. I'm not joking, .
July 2, 2018
This is trash that of course I did not read. I don't recommend you do, either.
PS, if the author is irritated by this review: stop being a snowflake :-)
PS, if the author is irritated by this review: stop being a snowflake :-)
November 1, 2020
Who was high at the publishing company when they made the brilliant decision to print this crap?
Or, maybe someone decided to grant the dying wish of their grandpa who wrote this shit while sitting on the toilet in their nursing home?
I mean, do you ever just have to wonder: "how in the fuck did something like this happen?"
No. Don't do that.
That's what this book is. A mystery. The mystery of why? Why does this exist?
Or, maybe someone decided to grant the dying wish of their grandpa who wrote this shit while sitting on the toilet in their nursing home?
I mean, do you ever just have to wonder: "how in the fuck did something like this happen?"
No. Don't do that.
That's what this book is. A mystery. The mystery of why? Why does this exist?
January 20, 2019
So full disclosure, I wouldn't have even known this book existed (and probably would have been better for that) if my queen Jenny Nicholson hadn't done a review on it. I knew about 2 minutes into her review that I HAD to read this book for myself, because there was no way it was real. There was no way this kind of book was actually real.
Spoiler alert: it's real.
And I'm kind struck between this being the best comedy I've read in years, or the most ineffective racist/sexist rhetoric and propaganda I've every experienced. I submit to you all, I had once wondered what reading Fox News would feel like. Can now confirm, just as terrible as having to listen to a couple of minutes of it at the gym while I'm fumbling the TV controls to try and get to TNT for my Supernatural at 6 in the morning.
With even more disclosure, I guess because this is a politically charged book, I suppose it's only fair to state that I am a registered democrat, and I'm pretty liberal in general. You know, I believe that people should be able to feed their kids, and make more than $12 an hour, and marry who they want, and use whatever bathroom they want. Basic human stuff. But I also think there's a better way to write a book with a more conservative standpoint than what's offered up here. I think there's a skillful way to make a point with literature, regardless of what that point is, with subtly and nuance, and things a good writer has in their arsenal.
Apparently Jonstone is a very prolific writer in the western genre, at least according to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. Can anyone confirm in those books that he's a decent writer? Or did he just lose his marbles for this book, and turn into a conservative edge lord and go ham with nonsensical run-on sentences, fragments that make no sense, paragraphs that share no common threads, characters that seem defined by their political stance and not ...personality, vocabulary that's taught in elementary school, and the general writing skills of someone who is more used to angrily writing comments under SJW videos on youtube, and not an actual author.
Because oh my god, excuse the subject matter, Johnstone is just a bad writer in this book. He's just terrible. He'll do this odd thing where he'll lead the reader down a train of thought, setting them up for expectation and payoff, only for the narration thread to suddenly be dropped like it meant nothing. Paragraphs don't flow smoothly into each other. They lack cohesion. Chapters rarely feel like they're meant to be read back to back, and within those chapters, content is introduced, dumped, reintroduced, and incoherently presented in such a chaotic way, that I swear to god I could get confused going from paragraph to paragraph.
In general, the writing in this book is more than just bad. It's downright terrible. How could Johnstone even think of presenting an argument, without the basic skills needed to do so? I wanted to go through and reedit this book. I wanted to rewrite parts of it so I could follow what was happening. And most of all, I was just disappointed that I couldn't really be the self-righteous bitch I wanted to be with this book. Because making fun of this book would be like making fun of a special needs kid. You can't do that. That's not cool. And clearly William Johnstone writes like he's special needs.
I guess what I can say about the content of the book is that it's highly, HIGHLY offensive from a human standpoint, let alone a political one. The book is filled with extreme misogyny. Women are presented as fickle, ignorant, manipulative, or often frail and easily abused. The author takes special note to highlight how women want to be protected from the big, bad world, but also want to protect themselves, so how dare they want to have their cake and eat it too! Like, it feels like the author is personally offended that women don't need men to hold doors open for them anymore?
(I'm totally into that, though. Just saying. I think it's sexy as hell when my date holds the door for me. Oh no, you guys! I'm not a special snowflake anymore! The feminists will kick me out of their club now!)
The author is also extremely racist at times. There's a lot of Fox News/Trump rhetoric about people of color and what a threat they are, or how they're terrorists. I will assume this very white author falls into the camp of people who believe that the Mexicans coming across the boarder are going to take his job! Or, you know, take all those coveted jobs out in the fields picking strawberries that white Americans are just lining up to fight for. The author often seems to try and camouflage his own racism by imparting it on the main character, Jake, but the author is about as successful with that, as making me believe that this author has EVER been to college and knows what it's really like.
I just � I don't know what to do with the content of this book. I think it's more than fair for someone to disagree with a political standpoint. And it's more than fair to argue for their own on the platform of their choice.
But this book is thinly veiled racism and sexism. It's fear mongering, and tasteless, and honestly, I'd probably be very, very pissed off if I identified conservative. I'd probably be going for blood if this idiot was representing my political party in any way, and was muddling things so badly it's unclear if this is just pre-Nazi rhetoric, or satire from a troll.
(Is this trolling? Come on, seriously, this has to be trolling. I mean, I know there are people like this that exist in real life, but this has to be trolling. It has to be. IT'S TOO BAD NOT TO BE TROLLING.)
This book is classless and trash, and we haven't even gotten to the plot of the book, which involves an on campus shooting. Which, I should point out, is handled so poorly, and so offensively, that I feel like I personally have to apologize to anyone who has had to endure gun control failure, or the loss of a family member due to such a tragedy. Because this author uses a school shooting as a tool to shake his finger and people and say, see, if you didn't coddle your children so much, they wouldn't be bullet sponges. Because that's how it works in real life. Want bullets to bounce off you? Don't let your sons do girly stuff like play with dolls or wear pink. Want your daughter to not end up shot when a disgruntled male student with psychological issues turns a gun on a class room? Teach her not to be a whore and tempt men! (You know, what you hear on Fox News every night).
I decided I had to read this book because I wanted a good laugh. I wanted to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon laughing at people being easily triggered at the idea of other people being easily triggered. Sometimes it's fun to laugh at the idiots.
But I ended up just being disturbed, and unsettled, and saddened in a way.
Politics are a hard thing to handle sometimes. You don't want to offend people, but you also don't want to back down. You don't want to make a situation tense, but in this climate, it's hard not to have a lot defined by what's going on politically.
Yet there is never an excuse for the kind of inhuman trash that you find in this book, and I'm still salty you can't rate a book lower than a one.
Trigger warning? How about idiot warning.
Spoiler alert: it's real.
And I'm kind struck between this being the best comedy I've read in years, or the most ineffective racist/sexist rhetoric and propaganda I've every experienced. I submit to you all, I had once wondered what reading Fox News would feel like. Can now confirm, just as terrible as having to listen to a couple of minutes of it at the gym while I'm fumbling the TV controls to try and get to TNT for my Supernatural at 6 in the morning.
With even more disclosure, I guess because this is a politically charged book, I suppose it's only fair to state that I am a registered democrat, and I'm pretty liberal in general. You know, I believe that people should be able to feed their kids, and make more than $12 an hour, and marry who they want, and use whatever bathroom they want. Basic human stuff. But I also think there's a better way to write a book with a more conservative standpoint than what's offered up here. I think there's a skillful way to make a point with literature, regardless of what that point is, with subtly and nuance, and things a good writer has in their arsenal.
Apparently Jonstone is a very prolific writer in the western genre, at least according to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. Can anyone confirm in those books that he's a decent writer? Or did he just lose his marbles for this book, and turn into a conservative edge lord and go ham with nonsensical run-on sentences, fragments that make no sense, paragraphs that share no common threads, characters that seem defined by their political stance and not ...personality, vocabulary that's taught in elementary school, and the general writing skills of someone who is more used to angrily writing comments under SJW videos on youtube, and not an actual author.
Because oh my god, excuse the subject matter, Johnstone is just a bad writer in this book. He's just terrible. He'll do this odd thing where he'll lead the reader down a train of thought, setting them up for expectation and payoff, only for the narration thread to suddenly be dropped like it meant nothing. Paragraphs don't flow smoothly into each other. They lack cohesion. Chapters rarely feel like they're meant to be read back to back, and within those chapters, content is introduced, dumped, reintroduced, and incoherently presented in such a chaotic way, that I swear to god I could get confused going from paragraph to paragraph.
In general, the writing in this book is more than just bad. It's downright terrible. How could Johnstone even think of presenting an argument, without the basic skills needed to do so? I wanted to go through and reedit this book. I wanted to rewrite parts of it so I could follow what was happening. And most of all, I was just disappointed that I couldn't really be the self-righteous bitch I wanted to be with this book. Because making fun of this book would be like making fun of a special needs kid. You can't do that. That's not cool. And clearly William Johnstone writes like he's special needs.
I guess what I can say about the content of the book is that it's highly, HIGHLY offensive from a human standpoint, let alone a political one. The book is filled with extreme misogyny. Women are presented as fickle, ignorant, manipulative, or often frail and easily abused. The author takes special note to highlight how women want to be protected from the big, bad world, but also want to protect themselves, so how dare they want to have their cake and eat it too! Like, it feels like the author is personally offended that women don't need men to hold doors open for them anymore?
(I'm totally into that, though. Just saying. I think it's sexy as hell when my date holds the door for me. Oh no, you guys! I'm not a special snowflake anymore! The feminists will kick me out of their club now!)
The author is also extremely racist at times. There's a lot of Fox News/Trump rhetoric about people of color and what a threat they are, or how they're terrorists. I will assume this very white author falls into the camp of people who believe that the Mexicans coming across the boarder are going to take his job! Or, you know, take all those coveted jobs out in the fields picking strawberries that white Americans are just lining up to fight for. The author often seems to try and camouflage his own racism by imparting it on the main character, Jake, but the author is about as successful with that, as making me believe that this author has EVER been to college and knows what it's really like.
I just � I don't know what to do with the content of this book. I think it's more than fair for someone to disagree with a political standpoint. And it's more than fair to argue for their own on the platform of their choice.
But this book is thinly veiled racism and sexism. It's fear mongering, and tasteless, and honestly, I'd probably be very, very pissed off if I identified conservative. I'd probably be going for blood if this idiot was representing my political party in any way, and was muddling things so badly it's unclear if this is just pre-Nazi rhetoric, or satire from a troll.
(Is this trolling? Come on, seriously, this has to be trolling. I mean, I know there are people like this that exist in real life, but this has to be trolling. It has to be. IT'S TOO BAD NOT TO BE TROLLING.)
This book is classless and trash, and we haven't even gotten to the plot of the book, which involves an on campus shooting. Which, I should point out, is handled so poorly, and so offensively, that I feel like I personally have to apologize to anyone who has had to endure gun control failure, or the loss of a family member due to such a tragedy. Because this author uses a school shooting as a tool to shake his finger and people and say, see, if you didn't coddle your children so much, they wouldn't be bullet sponges. Because that's how it works in real life. Want bullets to bounce off you? Don't let your sons do girly stuff like play with dolls or wear pink. Want your daughter to not end up shot when a disgruntled male student with psychological issues turns a gun on a class room? Teach her not to be a whore and tempt men! (You know, what you hear on Fox News every night).
I decided I had to read this book because I wanted a good laugh. I wanted to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon laughing at people being easily triggered at the idea of other people being easily triggered. Sometimes it's fun to laugh at the idiots.
But I ended up just being disturbed, and unsettled, and saddened in a way.
Politics are a hard thing to handle sometimes. You don't want to offend people, but you also don't want to back down. You don't want to make a situation tense, but in this climate, it's hard not to have a lot defined by what's going on politically.
Yet there is never an excuse for the kind of inhuman trash that you find in this book, and I'm still salty you can't rate a book lower than a one.
Trigger warning? How about idiot warning.
January 8, 2019
yikes I think the fuck not
Read
December 4, 2021Was not worth entering the separate giveaway for, even in my pursuit of expanding my literary tastes.
It's a plot that falls flat on its face when one considers that gun control-- the thing that so-called "ultra-lib special snowflakes" are pushing for-- would have prevented the entire thing, thus rendering a story useless to exist.
It reads as a gun-humping conservative's wet dream, basically.
It's a plot that falls flat on its face when one considers that gun control-- the thing that so-called "ultra-lib special snowflakes" are pushing for-- would have prevented the entire thing, thus rendering a story useless to exist.
It reads as a gun-humping conservative's wet dream, basically.
September 11, 2018
Valuable book that gives a lot of insight into why so many people turn out to be sexually repressed and hateful weirdos from slamming one out to stuff like this.
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July 2, 2018WTH *is* this? Good God...
Apart from the discriminatory language, how the hell do words like "Seige" and "Mauraders" get through a spellcheck?
Apart from the discriminatory language, how the hell do words like "Seige" and "Mauraders" get through a spellcheck?
September 11, 2018
There is no way that whoever wrote this book (original writer is dead and I assume it’s just a random ghost writer cranking these out) has been on a college campus. This book is what happens when someone spends a day on infowars, Reddit (the_donald), and Gateway Pundit and then tries to crank out a book.
July 3, 2018
hard pass
October 29, 2018
I am a very open-minded person so even though the first few chapters of this book blew my mind with the hateful rhetoric and vicious stereotyping, I finished it. I was disgusted with all the characters, not one had a redeeming quality. I am saddened that I can never again read a book by this author knowing his ability to spew this kind of vitriol.
February 16, 2019
Absolutely hilarious. A++ comedy. Laughing my ass off all the way. #sobaditsgood
January 17, 2019
In the interest of full disclosure, I wanted to read this because I thought it would be pretty funny - and it is.
But I don't think that was the author's intent.
Jake Rivers is a former Army Ranger, independent scholar, and apparently some kind of magician as he managed to both earn a bachelor's degree AND go straight into the Army Rangers fresh out of high school. Oh, a move he had to make because he got into trouble with the law. He's a good guy! He's a rebel! He's the misunderstood hero with a heart of gold!
Jake's wealthy and well-connected grandfather gets Jake a spot at the local college where Jake's grandfather is also a major donor. As soon as Jake arrives he's confronted by a comical amount of people who epitomize the most extreme forms of liberal politics. These cartoonish students and faculty members provide a way for the authors to pepper in a liberal amount of buzzwords like 'triggered', 'safe space', 'microaggressions' and the like. But while the characters are meant to be so different, many of them almost immediately also make it clear they aren't immune to Jake's charms. His flirting - and ultimate connection - with a professor had me literally laughing out loud in places.
Politics aside, the story itself - terrorists burst in and hold an entire college building hostage - doesn't hold much interest. Jake, of course, jumps into action, almost effortlessly thwarting the villains and teaching those granola students a few lessons in the meantime! XD
In terms of a D-thriller, Trigger Warning hits the mark. It's over the top and peppered with people and situations straight from a Made for TV Movie. The writing itself is clunky and sometimes a but hard to follow but it makes up for that in cheesiness.
23 Word Review: Heavy handed political satire about a problem that doesn't exist. Perfect for those looking for a laugh ... or desperate to reinforce their biases.
But I don't think that was the author's intent.
Jake Rivers is a former Army Ranger, independent scholar, and apparently some kind of magician as he managed to both earn a bachelor's degree AND go straight into the Army Rangers fresh out of high school. Oh, a move he had to make because he got into trouble with the law. He's a good guy! He's a rebel! He's the misunderstood hero with a heart of gold!
Jake's wealthy and well-connected grandfather gets Jake a spot at the local college where Jake's grandfather is also a major donor. As soon as Jake arrives he's confronted by a comical amount of people who epitomize the most extreme forms of liberal politics. These cartoonish students and faculty members provide a way for the authors to pepper in a liberal amount of buzzwords like 'triggered', 'safe space', 'microaggressions' and the like. But while the characters are meant to be so different, many of them almost immediately also make it clear they aren't immune to Jake's charms. His flirting - and ultimate connection - with a professor had me literally laughing out loud in places.
Politics aside, the story itself - terrorists burst in and hold an entire college building hostage - doesn't hold much interest. Jake, of course, jumps into action, almost effortlessly thwarting the villains and teaching those granola students a few lessons in the meantime! XD
In terms of a D-thriller, Trigger Warning hits the mark. It's over the top and peppered with people and situations straight from a Made for TV Movie. The writing itself is clunky and sometimes a but hard to follow but it makes up for that in cheesiness.
23 Word Review: Heavy handed political satire about a problem that doesn't exist. Perfect for those looking for a laugh ... or desperate to reinforce their biases.
Shelved as 'dnr-authors'
September 14, 2018This sounds like absolutely trash and not worth the paper it’s going to be printed on.
January 17, 2019
i thought this was going to be ironic but i was oh so terribly wrong...
July 16, 2018
I don't even know where to begin. I read this book despite the ridiculous synopsis, in an attempt to be objective. Well.... that went well. Besides the painting of Americans as treasonous enemies if they don't want everyone armed and kneeling to Russia, the quality of writing fell flat of even a high school amateur. I simply cannot fathom how or why ANY publisher would pick this book up, much less Penguin Random House. Needless to say, I am side-eyeing them and not just for the content. I have seen more cohesive pieces put together by high school students who do the least to just scrape by. Save your time, if you get it free. Save your time AND money if you don't. It's garbage and while I truly believe books are sacred... this one definitely belongs in a dumpster fire.
January 20, 2019
Very, very funny- not in a good way. He’s bIG!!!! Incase you couldn’t tell from reading this book
January 21, 2019
i-
wtf??
wtf??
January 14, 2023
You can stop asking me now.
December 1, 2019
Easily the dumbest book I've ever read. The writing and plotting were absolutely abyssmal and read like a deranged fever dream of Tucker Carlson. I couldn't put it down.
March 17, 2019
Everything you need to know about this book is summarized by the following: our veteran main character has gone back to college, stops to defend a woman being beaten by her boyfriend in public, is attacked by antifa ninjas, fights them off, and is rescued by his best friend in the local sheriff who tells him he has to be careful because of the politically correct kids on campus who will soon be threatened by terrorists. This is the first chapter. If this intrigues you, this is your book. It is a very silly premise that is best read ironically. If you take it deadly serious and an indictment of modern America then you're probably my dad.
Shelved as 'no-thanks'
January 21, 2019 is a very long video review, which I almost didn't watch because I wasn't sure it'd be worth the time, but IT IS WORTH THE TIME. Seriously, WATCH THIS VIDEO.
A quick sample:
�The gunman was white, fairly young and average-looking. Nothing about him shouted mass shooter. Actually, no, I think he pretty much just described a lot of mass shooters.�
A quick sample:
�The gunman was white, fairly young and average-looking. Nothing about him shouted mass shooter. Actually, no, I think he pretty much just described a lot of mass shooters.�
January 16, 2019
In the hands of the right author, this could have been a darkly comedic satire. Unfortunately, this is not the right author. Instead, we have an angry old man writing as a twenty-something and spouting political opinions.
December 5, 2018
So bad that it's almost satirical. It's as good as a B-Horror film in how humorous it is. To die for!!
April 5, 2021
stan jenny nicholsan for clear skin
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February 24, 2019First of all - I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND READING THIS WARPED RIGHT-WING BOOK. unless you just wanna be entertained by the insane anti-left(liberal) propaganda talking points.
I read this book for a laugh. Kind of like watching a bad movie to make fun of it and laugh at the incompetency and strange technical and plot decisions.
Anyway, the book doesn't disappoint in its, um, crazy perspective of the EVIL LEFT!
In chapter one (just about seven pages), the main character, without doing anything, gets called a fascist, an oppressor, gets accused of "perpetuating stereotypes of spreading toxic masculinity," and gets randomly attacked by roaming group of black clad antifa. That's just the first seven pages.
So, yeah, it's "VERY realistic" in how it portrays the "ULTIMATE EVIL LEFT."
I read this book for a laugh. Kind of like watching a bad movie to make fun of it and laugh at the incompetency and strange technical and plot decisions.
Anyway, the book doesn't disappoint in its, um, crazy perspective of the EVIL LEFT!
In chapter one (just about seven pages), the main character, without doing anything, gets called a fascist, an oppressor, gets accused of "perpetuating stereotypes of spreading toxic masculinity," and gets randomly attacked by roaming group of black clad antifa. That's just the first seven pages.
So, yeah, it's "VERY realistic" in how it portrays the "ULTIMATE EVIL LEFT."
February 20, 2019
"Am I allowed to say that you look nice, or is that a micro-aggression?"
"Coming from someone as big as you, I'm not sure a micro-aggression is possible."
Apparently, this is what passes for writing from William Johnstone's niece. Yeah, that's right, Old Bill has been dead since 2004, and his niece has taken over. This fetid ode to how awesome big manly-men who aren't triggered are - except by people being triggered, or immigrants, or art students - feels like it was written by someone who hasn't met a real person.
I think the easiest way to review this book is to recommend video.
"Coming from someone as big as you, I'm not sure a micro-aggression is possible."
Apparently, this is what passes for writing from William Johnstone's niece. Yeah, that's right, Old Bill has been dead since 2004, and his niece has taken over. This fetid ode to how awesome big manly-men who aren't triggered are - except by people being triggered, or immigrants, or art students - feels like it was written by someone who hasn't met a real person.
I think the easiest way to review this book is to recommend video.
November 26, 2021
CRAK! BIFF!
BLAM BLAM BLAM!
Woo! We really kicked some straw-man butt here didn't we?
Co-authors William "Deceased" Johnstone and live niece Jasmine Aaliyah "J.A." Johnstone* erect an impressive horde of straw-man lefties to stand against our heroic loner as he defends a college full of delicate snowflakes from some bad guys. By the end, though the straw lies thick across the campus, Jake Rivers, the good guy - who is big - manages to save most of their misguided lives - which are small, but spared. (No spoiler. If you're surprised, you're trying to read too far above your grade.) Lots of action, thrills, romance, political commentary, and blood-soaked clothes smearing down walls. Some brains too: not for thinking, for splattering. It's all quite educational, if you don't normally consume conservative media.
Five stars, then, for the publisher's genius in using Jasmine* and zombie author Uncle Bill to expose and ridicule the puerile worldview of American conservative populism.
Sadly, the five stars can't stand. Points are adjusted as follows.
Final score: three stars. Worth a read if you're in a funny mood, but don't spend any money on it.
EDIT to add: 1.99 stars restored for the publisher stealing Gaiman's title. Cool move.
Final score 4.99 stars.
(*NOTE. The J. A. in Johnstone's name does not actually stand for Jasmine Aaliyah but, taking my cue from the obfuscatory author biography, and then taking it a step further, I choose to think it must be something fragrantly feminine and exotic that they're trying to hide from her he-man fans. I know I could look it up, but - why bother?)
BLAM BLAM BLAM!
Woo! We really kicked some straw-man butt here didn't we?
Co-authors William "Deceased" Johnstone and live niece Jasmine Aaliyah "J.A." Johnstone* erect an impressive horde of straw-man lefties to stand against our heroic loner as he defends a college full of delicate snowflakes from some bad guys. By the end, though the straw lies thick across the campus, Jake Rivers, the good guy - who is big - manages to save most of their misguided lives - which are small, but spared. (No spoiler. If you're surprised, you're trying to read too far above your grade.) Lots of action, thrills, romance, political commentary, and blood-soaked clothes smearing down walls. Some brains too: not for thinking, for splattering. It's all quite educational, if you don't normally consume conservative media.
Five stars, then, for the publisher's genius in using Jasmine* and zombie author Uncle Bill to expose and ridicule the puerile worldview of American conservative populism.
Sadly, the five stars can't stand. Points are adjusted as follows.
Final score: three stars. Worth a read if you're in a funny mood, but don't spend any money on it.
EDIT to add: 1.99 stars restored for the publisher stealing Gaiman's title. Cool move.
Final score 4.99 stars.
(*NOTE. The J. A. in Johnstone's name does not actually stand for Jasmine Aaliyah but, taking my cue from the obfuscatory author biography, and then taking it a step further, I choose to think it must be something fragrantly feminine and exotic that they're trying to hide from her he-man fans. I know I could look it up, but - why bother?)
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