Review: The Master Fails
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2012
I have been reading The Destroyer since the first book was published. The author used to know the difference between satire and political demagoguery.Chiun, speaking in slang? Becoming a (spoiler deleted)?Remo somehow still seems real, maintaining a purity of outlook without being either simple minded or blinded, but the writing seems shallow.There was so much time spent on bashing some unknown black president, attacking policy and personality in place of humor I had a hard time not thinking this was done by one of the hack authors used by a different publishing company at another sad time.I remember Nixon being put on top of the Washington monument, but it did not take pages of endless "some black president" hating language to get there.Besides the above, even if my pro-Obama slant is pushing my dislike, the lack of the old writing skills, the caricature of Chiun, the shallow writing without truly drawing any of the characters, is as bad or worse than the three books where Remo was scared of guns and smoking cigarettes.Warren, Please bring back the Destroyer as more than a way for you to pay your bills.