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Is this where I came into this movie?

Reviewed: 07-06-24

Getting derivative of David’s past books in this series (I’ve read or listened to each - many twice). In fact, at one point I looked at ‘details’ to check if this was indeed new. Love Andy and his gang, but sadly fear the author’s tiring and ‘save the world’ plots are an overreach. Fear next plot will send Tara to Saturn 😵‍💫

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Astonishing craft of David Rosenfelt!

Reviewed: 02-19-24

This my TWENTY SECOND Rosenfelt original listen PLUS I’ve relistened to the first twelve novels TWICE!! Andy Carpenter and Grover Gardner’s characterization are… are.. wonder filled. No other media can do what this team does. Congrats Audible for this marriage.

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Narrative abrasive

Reviewed: 12-06-23

Characters unintentionally (?) abrasive? Not one with which to identify. Interest collapsed 1/3 in. Felt driven away by writer(s).

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A Zillion Doors To Boredom

Reviewed: 08-18-23

Intriguing premise for what should have been a novella or, better yet, sudden fiction. “Will this never end”, I wondered. “How to escape the author’s wandering wonderings? “Ah-Hah! The Forward Arrow! The Chapters section! I can seek some sense of an ending!” So I pressed, then rattled my thumb on the FF like a drummer on a roll. And finally I broke away from this lesson in insanity - no longer repeating in hope of a different conclusion. This book is a well written trip through terminal boredom. Ugh!

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Like bad Peter Lorrie 40s B flick

Reviewed: 07-10-23

No cliche left un-squirmed. Ugh! Like a pot boiler stew crammed with over seasoned veggies past their buy time.

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ZZZZZ

Reviewed: 05-30-23

The writers technical craft mastery pulled me to an ending more convoluted than a lesson on quantum mechanics. Don’t if I’ll again read another Horowitz. Zzzzzzzzz!

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Tried too hard

Reviewed: 11-26-22

Every good author gets a dud. This one’s Chris’s. Too many characters for an audiobook which makes easy review of cast difficult. Who are all of these people? How’d they fit in again? Probably, if I lacked a life with time to listen (and study) this plot w/out interruption, I might have cared enough to keep the storyline unsnarled. Too much responsibility, I expect the author of recreational fiction to do that for me. The reader didn’t help with insufficient definition in character voices. Good luck next time.

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Tediously Dull

Reviewed: 11-19-22

Poorly identified characters appear then are discarded with the rapidity and disdain of Kleenex in the flu. The reader’s British accent wafts a cloud of tedious condescension over this heap of minutiae. Were there no editors available to this author? This is a 1930s textbook, an exercise in stimulating sleep. Ugh.

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Recording very damaged

Reviewed: 10-04-22

Skips like hell. Don’t waste your time!!! Beyond irritating jumping & leaping
randomly back and forward.

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Woke From The American Dream?

Reviewed: 08-25-21

America's Left believes that once-dreaming America's come woke to a world where feelings are reality. A place where thoughts and even facts are crimes. They preach a theocratic message of skin-deep identities, each identity a tribe that the Left can herd into one single mission with the the guillotine of cancellation. Over 7 or 10 decades the Woke have made a long march through the universities, the schools, the media, churches, government, non-profits, and corporations to shatter America's common identity and reverse the belief that America has created a unique common culture out of many into one (E pluribus unum). Instead through atomizing America's commonality, the Left has turned one into many (Unum in multis). And in dividing, conquer.

Have I got Ramaswamy's drift?

He focuses most heavily upon the corporate takeover to have executives do what the government cannot constitutionally do in terms of policing the speech/actions of wage-earners into conformity with their dogmas. He reveals how profits, normally a result of corporate behaviorhave been directed into a cause of corporate behavior.Which is a jujitsu tactic employing the opponent's muscle and weight against itself. Are the results Brilliant? Sinister? Both? Neither? Good questions but those aren't Ramaswamy's questions really. With respect to its corporate take-over, this book's neither a whodunit, or why-dunnit but it succeeds in revealing how-dunnit through both the Left's strategy and their consequent brilliant tactics.

Is the confrontation between Left and Right over? Has the Church of Wokeness (as the author describes it) evangelized or at least pacified American-Dreamers sufficiently that only a few ineffective heretics remain to recant? Has the match ended before the spectators even realized it both began and that this was an audience-participation event?

Perhaps... and Ramaswamy, having described his opponent's strategy offers up a defensive stance. Too little too late? Is his a Maginot Line easily by-passed by an agile force nourished well by the spoils of its successful battles? If you are not Woke and still cling to The American Dream of a unique bastion for individual opportunity, perhaps this is a book of hope? Me? I'm glad I'm too old to fight and hope my locks, guns, and barred windows will discourage the looters.

This is NOT a book for the masses. It is a demanding read for minds open to some technical instruction of the ways of Wall Street, finance, and Constitutional law. Will the essential understandings discourage the vey large swath of people hungry for Ramaswamy's message?

Hope not... but hope has never been a business plan.

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