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The Patriot
 Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse $14.95 this book came up as suggested reading after I had read William Fortschen's One Second After, so because I liked that, I gave this a try. Should've saved my money... First of all, there really isnt any story, the characters are so weak, so you cant call this a novel. Its so didactic, there isnt any build up of tension or excitement that would lead me to want to prepare for something, all it does is put me to sleep. The whole thing reads like : Oh, Jesus likes Swiss knives for skinning because they are the sharpest, and Joseph carries a revolver because that can easily be concealed, and Mary can transfuse blood and sew stitches in wounds" and proceeds to tell you in several excruciating pages how she does it. Its just how it read to me, I had to put it down , couldnt finish it at all If I wanted an instructional book on survival, I would have bought one. I wanted a novel that actually told a story  The Patriot (Special Edition) $14.94 Oh, I cannot tell you how my heart is so warmed by reading what my British cousins across the sea have written about this piece of cinematic crap. Amazon.UK even described it as "sufficiently intelligent," an indulgence from the land that invented the English Language, only to be rewarded by this crap. It's a good thing we know how to cross oceans with firearms, otherwise they would have killed us all by now. Yet it has a "patriotic" tone and theme, and therefore we must be polite. Yes? No. After the success of Saving Private Ryan, the screenwriter was directed to come up with something fast. It shows. If this trash was written in any more than 30 days, I`ll be shocked. Have you ever watched a film where you were so terribly embarrased for the actors on the screen that you actually slunk down in your seat so no one one could see the red on your face? Well, when I saw this film's debut in Connecticut, there wasn't a dry head in the house. The origins of the American Revolution are mystery. Keep it that way. It is not a topic to delve in. It is not a two-bit screenwriter's business. |
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