Review: Preachy, predictable end of world saga
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
Some have criticized the incessant editorializing, preaching, commenting, politicizing and philosophizing but if all that was removed there would be little of a story.  I found myself skipping paragraphs where he attacked this or that political idea or gave us a lesson in nuclear survivability or his ideas on racial, gender, prisoner (etc) rights.  I wanted to scream, Just STFU and tell the story.This is allegedly a diary by a controversial leader 100 years ago (our hero) although the point of view changes from first to third person constantly.  I didn't find the usual grammatical and punctuation mistakes so common in stories of this type but the prose was definitely amateurish.  As is the case on all books of this genre, we center on a small town and its fight against outsiders and that inevitable army of bad guys - in this case religious militants who spend their time enslaving "people of color", subduing women yet rapidly progressing throughout the land.  It doesn't ring true.  History has demonstrated that societies that subdue part of their population do not  function well.  Whether it is Islam and women, the South and blacks, Germany and Jews or Russia and the productive class.  Not only are some underutilized but an inordinate amount of time and effort is wasted in maintaining control.After surviving incredible James Bond-like ventures our hero fades into history with his baby mama at his side.  We get a new government, Constitution and "life goes on".  My grade - C- for the action scenes.