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The user's persona:
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Demographics:
  age group: approximately 55 years old (was 22 in 1973, writing last review in 2006)
  occupation: training specialist (mentioned 'As a training specialist, it was one of my main sources for writing a domestic violence prevention training program')
  nationality: American (references American politics extensively, mentions 'our country', discusses U.S. military service context)
  other: likely has military background (references 'living amongst Germans of all backgrounds, and having travelled extensively through their forests above several tons of tracked aluminum' suggesting tank service in Germany)
Interests:
  Political analysis and media criticism, particularly focused on Bush administration policies and conservative media figures like O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, and Coulter
  Military history and war literature, especially Vietnam War accounts ('We Were Soldiers Once...And Young') and WWII-era novels
  Classic literature and masterful storytelling, praising authors like Herman Wouk and Leon Uris as 'storytellers of classic stature'
  Social justice issues, particularly domestic violence prevention (developed training programs and extensively reviewed related literature)
  Constitutional law and presidential accountability, reviewing books on impeachment and executive power abuses
  National security and homeland defense, analyzing terrorism preparedness and intelligence failures
  Media bias and press accountability, extensively documenting how 'our main stream media (MSM) are scared to death of a conservative backlash'
  Corporate corruption and political influence, praising books that expose 'companies that have raped the public and their employees because of their own greed'
  Historical fiction that blends reality with narrative, appreciating works 'where you are unsure where fiction leaves off and reality begins'
  Leadership studies, contrasting effective versus ineffective military command in combat situations
Values:
  Strong commitment to truth and factual accuracy, repeatedly praising books that are 'scrupulously researched' and provide extensive documentation
  Deep skepticism of conservative politics and media, stating 'neocons who worship at the holy grail of unrestrained capitalism, have little to say about this book'
  Belief in government accountability and constitutional limits on executive power, supporting impeachment proceedings based on 'high crimes and misdemeanors'
  Advocacy for vulnerable populations, particularly domestic violence victims, noting 'women are safer at night in the park than in their own homes'
  Appreciation for intellectual rigor and evidence-based arguments, consistently challenging reviewers to 'catalogue all claims to facts, and then, see how many errors you can find'
  Patriotic concern for national security combined with criticism of administration failures, arguing 'American apathy and complacency are the terrorists' greatest allies'
  Value for sacrifice and service, honoring military personnel while criticizing political leadership that 'squandered a unique moment of national unity'
  Belief in press responsibility to challenge power, criticizing media that 'rolled over for Bush' and 'hit the snooze button of lethargy and apathy'
  Respect for compassionate conservatism when genuine, but contempt for hypocrisy, noting O'Reilly 'decries opposition to tax cuts that would benefit the top one percent' while having a '$20 million dollar contract'
  Commitment to protecting democratic institutions and civil liberties against erosion by 'unlawful detentions of American citizens, kidnappings, torture, and constitutional abuse'
Communication:
  Writes extensive, detailed reviews averaging 400-600 words with sophisticated structure and multiple paragraphs
  Uses creative, attention-grabbing titles like 'They didn't have a zero star rating' and 'I was a Reviewer Once... And Young'
  Employs sarcasm and humor effectively when criticizing political opponents, suggesting Bush's book as 'a Christmas gift for a person you only pretend to like'
  Incorporates rhetorical questions to engage readers: 'Do I still have the book? Yes. Would I ever pick it up, and read it again? Yes.'
  Provides specific evidence and citations, noting 'Waldman catalogues so many facts and attributions per page' with 'footnotes and appendices and nexus searches'
  Uses vivid metaphors and analogies, describing information as 'wide as Texas and just as dry' or comparing security to 'sitting on a time bomb'
  Balances criticism with fairness, acknowledging 'Risen at least has the guts to put the accountability where it belongs'
  Includes personal anecdotes to establish credibility, mentioning 'As a training specialist' or 'I first opened this book late one summer evening at the age of twenty-two'
  Uses emphatic formatting with capitalization and italics for emphasis, though not excessively
  Concludes reviews with memorable summary statements like 'And that's no lie' or 'It is a book of revelations'
  Demonstrates self-awareness and humility, admitting 'I can only conclude that I lack the intellectual depth for this' when a book didn't engage them
Statistics:
  Average review length approximately 450-550 words, with political book reviews typically longer (600+ words) than fiction reviews (300-400 words)
  Frequently uses phrases like 'I highly recommend', 'this book makes clear', 'the author demonstrates', appearing in nearly every review
  Consistently structures reviews with introduction, detailed analysis, and memorable conclusion
  Uses parenthetical asides frequently to add context or commentary, averaging 2-4 per review
  Employs rhetorical questions regularly, typically 1-3 per review for engagement
  Minimum review length around 150 words (for 'The Spartans'), maximum exceeds 700 words (for 'Lapdogs' and 'State of War')
  Varies sentence structure effectively between short, punchy statements ('And that's no lie.') and complex, multi-clause sentences
  Uses specific numbers and statistics when available to strengthen arguments ('95% of the cases are men abusing women', '834,000 men per year are abused')
  Frequently references other books and authors for comparison and recommendation, demonstrating broad reading background
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The user's past reviews:
--- Example 1 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Reference->Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
- Title: Up Front
- Subtitle: Hardcover – December 1, 2000
- Price: 19.23
- Author: Bill Mauldin
- Description: From Library Journal Speaking of Americana . With the memory of the war as fresh as the ink on the pages, Mauldin's text and drawings of the American dogface GI in combat became a classic the minute it rolled off the press in 1945 and remains an essential title for libraries. This edition contains a new foreword by Stephen Ambrose. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review The best book about war and life in an army...a classic of both prose and pictures. -- R.C. Harvey, The Comics Buyers Guide, ...[truncated]
- Features: The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. "The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes ...[truncated]

Review by this user:
In Memory of Our Fallen and Our Gold Star Mothers: It's a gift, the ability to draw, to have perspective, to create, to be able to portray human misery as humor, for a reader to see the image and words and turn to laughter. Bill Mauldin had this gift that gained prominence in a time of war where talents rise to their greatest heights or sink to their lowest depths.

Truth is portrayed in humor or the humor isn't funny. Sergeant Bill Mauldin, an infantryman, barely twenty, and serving in Italy picks up a pencil and anything he can draw on, and begins to sketch two characters named Willy and Joe, two, brave, disheveled, irreverent, likeable and crusty infantry soldiers that give meaning to the names infantrymen were referred to as: ground-pounders, dogfaces, legs, and grunts. Mauldin portrays their grim and grimy existence with fatalistic pictures and captions--or grunts. One called "Breakfast in Bed" finds one of them waking up under a cow's udders, or the one where both are in a rain-filled foxhole and Willie touches Joe's shoulder saying, "Joe, yesterday ya saved my life an' I swore I'd pay ya back. Here's my last pair o' dry socks,"  or with rain pelting down on a scrawny dog facing the opening of their make-shift shelter, one of them says: "Let'im in. I wanna see a critter I kin feel sorry fer." My all-time favorite is a drunk German staggering toward a hidden Willie and Joe, holding a bottle of schnapps, unaware that he is wandering into American lines: "Don't startle `im, Joe. It's almost full."

These cartoons show the comradeship that soldiers developed for each other that would last a lifetime. Each man knew each other better than his own family or spouse ever would, and they could see the good and the bad in everything. They would carry a wounded lieutenant back to safety because he wasn't a "salutin' demon," or curse the Germans as vile, evil Nazis for scuttling a large keg of cognac before their retreat. These soldiers were miserable without being despondent. They were scared without being cowardly. They complained about their predicaments, but carried out their mission as American soldiers always do--attacking silently. The viewer cannot help but feeling empathy and admiration for soldiers who sometimes spent thirty months "in the line."

Mauldin goes further than just making us laugh at the miserable existence of two men trying to stay alive. His real success is that his humor defines the very best and most humane in the human character when it is engaged in its most destructive behavior. It is also timeless. Seventy years later, civilians and servicemen can still see the gallows humor in Willie and Joe's death-defying predicaments.

"Up Front" is Mauldin's account, of what he was doing when he created a particular drawing, why he made sure to include medics, engineers, chaplains, and even Tommies. The writing is matter of fact, well-written, and interesting, but without fascination. That was saved for the cartoons. The author is explaining each one in his text. It's the drawings and the captions that make this book a winner and a conversation piece.

Bill Mauldin died January 22, 2003. Willie and Joe occupying a foxhole filled with water and several cubic feet of complaints live on.

Think about this the next time you put on a pair of clean, dry socks, and marvel at the simple pleasure of just how good they feel.

May 26, 2008 Memorial Day (observed)

In Memory of the Fallen and all our Gold Star Mothers--especially today.

--- Example 2 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Politics & Social Sciences->Politics & Government
- Title: War And The American Presidency
- Subtitle: Hardcover – Illustrated, January 1, 2004
- Price: 1.99
- Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger
- Description: From Booklist Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Schlesinger is perhaps best known for his study of the Kennedy presidency, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965), and it is his reputation that will likely attract readers otherwise turned off by the vociferous glut of books, pro and con, about the Bush administration. Their interest will be well rewarded, for this selection is a notch better than most. Rather than comparing the current president's character with that of his pr ...[truncated]
- Features: The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explores the war in Iraq, the presidency of George W. Bush, and the future of democracy warning readers about the dangers of America's policy shift from containment to preventive war, discussing Bush's revival of the "imperial presidency," and urging for continued patriotism in the face of dissent. 70,000 first printing.

Review by this user:
What  We Needed to Know in 2002.: "In 1998, Donald Rumsfeld, [Paul] Wolfowitz, [Richard] Perle were among the eighteen signers of an open letter to President Clinton arguing that regime change in Iraq 'needs to become the aim of American foreign policy'." This quote from world-respected author and one-man political think tank, Arthur Schesinger shows that these individuals were looking for an excuse that 9/11 gave them, to invade Iraq. They began beating the tocsins of war shortly after to create their vision of a middle eastern democracy under a pax americana.

Arthur Schlesinger points out in detail how the Bush administration pressured the CIA for raw intelligence from which they would make an interpretation, how the reasons for invading Iraq kept changing, and how the White House kept contradicting previous statements. The reader can only come to the conclusion that the Bush Doctrine is an utter failure, the invasion of Iraq was not to fight terrorism but to satisfy a right-wing vision, that we were lied to about an association between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin-Laden, that we lied to about WMD. Even after this collaboration and weapons failed to materialize, Schlesinger states "the Bush administration is left with liberation, which it had once deemed an insufficient justification for putting American lives at risk."

I found the first three chapters captivating, but I gave this four stars because of a need to keep a dictionary by my side.  The author's vocabulary far exceeds mine, and those of fewer words may find this annoying or challenging. I was also annoyed by the author's use of French without translation: "Nous Sommes Tous Americains." (We are all Americans.) In some places, I had to stop and absorb his insight--a more worthwhile pursuit.

But, if you are looking for a powerful and persuasive argument against our government and its actions, Arthur Schlesinger gives it to you. Read it, and soak it up. Finally, remember the words of George Bush:

"There was no viable exit strategy....Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish."

That was from George Herbert Walker Bush (41)!

--- Example 3 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->New, Used & Rental Textbooks->Humanities
- Title: The Conscience of a Liberal
- Subtitle: None
- Price: 8.48
- Author: Paul Krugman
- Description: From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Economist and New York Times columnist Krugman's stimulating manifesto aims to galvanize today's progressives the way Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative did right-wingers in 1964. Krugman's great theme is economic equality and the liberal politics that support it. America's post-war middle-class society was not the automatic product of a free-market economy, he writes, but was created... by the policies of the Roosevelt Administration. By strengthening ...[truncated]
- Features: This wholly original new work by the best-selling author of The Great Unraveling challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-cla ...[truncated]

Review by this user:
Worth Every Penny: As baby boomers, we grew up with products "Made in the USA" and scoffed at trinkets from Japan. Our parents enjoyed life-long employment, health care, affordable education, Social Security and pensions that made the golden years more golden. This is what author Paul Krugman describes in his new book "Conscience of a Liberal." He calls this the "Great Compression" where the politics of equality was borne from the New Deal in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt defied the laws of Adam Smith and his invisible hand, and redistributed the wealth of a nation, effectively killing the "Gilded Age" where society was comprised of the very wealthy and the poor.

FDR's New Deal saw the minimum wage becoming half of the average wage earner, the rise of unions, and the mansions of the nation's wealthiest becoming museum attractions. This was the creation of the middle class that was vehemently opposed by Republicans who believed that government intervention would turn the country communist and ruin the economy. It didn't.

By the time Dwight Eisenhower, Republican, became president most in the party had made their peace with the New Deal and only a fringe of an extremist element, known as movement conservatives, still opposed it.

These conservatives made a brief, unsuccessful surge with the nomination of Barry Goldwater in 1964. They got a break when Democrats embraced civil rights, which broke the Solid South away from them. Racism and the wrath of the angry white male were exploited, and the message of Ronald Reagan could not be missed when he launched his campaign in Philadelphia, MS. Sound familiar?

Through skillful marketing of ideas, conservatives were able to exploit racism and frame themselves as strong on defense, tough on crime, and opponents of big government and taxes, even though they lacked the record to support any of these assertions. Once again, we returned to a Gilded Age with a rising disparity between the have's and the have nots, and a declining middle class. Middle class income is less than it was under President Lyndon Johnson, and bankruptcies and mortgage foreclosures have increased because of crushing medical debt and jobs being shipped overseas.

And this is where Paul Krugman claims that conservatism is running on its last pint of gas. With record low unemployment and a booming economy, Americans are still uncertain about the their future and their prospects. They have had no tax relief, no job security, income failing to keep pace with cost of living increases, rising health care insurance costs, no end to an unpopular war, rising education costs, and companies repudiating their pension promises. With forty-five million Americans having no health insurance and sixteen million being under-insured, conservatives are no longer able to convince them that they are better off with tax relief going to the richest companies, while they are trying to dismantle Medicare and Social Security, in other words, the New Deal.

In spite of the current widening gap, Krugman sees an optimistic future, a demise of movement conservatism and a return to the politics of equality through universal health care. He points out that this is not socialized medicine but socialized insurance. The government program, Medicare operates efficiently with smaller administrative costs than major insurance companies, which have considerably higher operating expenses. The author's second point is that while racism still exists, it is not as deep as it was twenty years ago, and can no longer be exploited by movement conservatives. Equally important, he believes that Americans will eventually see that conservatism is of no advantage to them, only to the corporations and the wealthy.

Writing in a style and vocabulary that will not require the reader to carry a dictionary, this award-winning columnist and economist provides an interesting background of American populism, political history of America in the 20th century, and the remedy for the current politics of inequality.

It was a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience. It is worth every penny.

--- Example 4 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->New, Used & Rental Textbooks->Social Sciences
- Title: The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes
- Subtitle: None
- Price: 12.91
- Author: Cass R. Sunstein
- Description: Review A brilliant and refreshing look into the conditions necessary for the protection of rights, The Cost of Rights is essential to understanding how individual liberty depends fundamentally on social cooperation and government action. -- George Soros, author of The Crisis of Global Capitalism A compelling analysis of the intellectual failures of libertarianism and a much-needed appeal for a better kind of liberalism. -- Bruce Ackerman, Yale University A totally different and important look at our basic r ...[truncated]
- Features: To "fight for your rights," or anyone else's, is not just to debate principles but to haggle over budgets. The simple insight that all legally enforceable rights cost money reminds us that freedom is not violated by a government that taxes and spends, but requires it―and requires a citizenry vigilant about how money is allocated. Drawing from these practical, commonsense notions, The Cost of Rights provides a useful corrective to the all-or-nothing feel of much political debate nowadays ( The Economist ).

Review by this user:
Give Me Liberty, Taxes, and Government: If you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, perhaps you should also not judge a book by its title. While this title seems like a natural cure for somnambulism, next to sex and death, I found the content very interesting.

Since our founding, many Americans have believed that taxes have robbed us of our freedom, that it is big government imposing its will on a grudging public, and that taxes and liberties are antithetical. Authors, Stephen Holmes and Cass Sunstein make a simple counter proposition: liberty depends on taxes. Liberty costs money. Without money their could be no freedom and without a government there would be no one to ensure that our rights were preserved. Government is not some outside force that dominates our political and social fabric. The authors contend that government is the most effective means for "a politically organized society [to] pursue its common objectives, including the shared aim of securing the protection of legal rights for all."

Even negative liberties, a term which means that the government imposes restraining forces upon itself in dealing with its citizens, cost money e.g. the recent ruling in which religious extremists are allowed to desecrate the funeral services and burial of our servicemen and women, required a government intervention such as the Supreme Court, and may still require government intervention, such as polic, in protecting mourners or those who taunt them out of misguided religious zeal. Again, all these liberties are costs that we accept. The authors find even negative rights are positive.

If the cost of certain liberties are too much as some citizens claim, then they are unwilling for their taxes to be used to pay for them, or the citizen-government will simply decide that these costs are too high. A case in point is the rich kid who gets into trouble, whose parents can retain topnotch lawyers for the defense of their son. This cannot be said of the kid from the ghetto who is arrested. Can the government pay for the each and every citizen getting a reputable lawyer for every defendant? Maybe, but do they want to? No. That liberty or right is a price government finds too much.

The citizen might object to paying taxes for healthcare for the poor, while already paying taxes for veterans, who are wounded, injured, or just old. In fact taxes for welfare actually began after the Civil War in providing prostheses and medical attention to the veterans.

Liberties are choices, and the choices depend on the money available to enforce them. Each tax does not have to be listed as a taxable item in the Constitution for the taxes to be valid and legal, as some misguided interpretations of the document suggest. That argument is most common on "hot button" issues such as prayer in public. One side might claim that it is freedom of speech demanding government support while the other side believes it is imposing a religious belief and violates their freedom.

The book is divided into four sections: why a penniless state cannot protect rights; why rights cannot be absolutes; why rights entail responsibilities, understanding rights as a bargain, and the public character of private freedoms. These sections have chapters of their own.

Twice now in a short time, I have found a valuable source for a segment of the public that needs it the most,  will probably not because of one of the authors' name--Cass Sunstein. He is vilified on right wing radio and Fox TV even though his scholarship in the law is evident in his multiple publications. The authors are not advocating a particular political stance. They are dispassionate in their description of the relationship between liberties and taxes. Their simple claim is that liberty does not survive without a government or taxes.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, "...to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men."

--- Example 5 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Business & Money->Business Culture
- Title: Who Moved My Cheese
- Subtitle: Hardcover – Big Book, September 8, 1998
- Price: 12.48
- Author: Spencer Johnson
- Description: Amazon.com Review Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-si ...[truncated]
- Features: THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 28 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT!A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life. It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze. If the same old routines worked. If they'd just stop moving "The Cheese." But things keep changing... Most people are fearful of change, both personal and professional, because they d ...[truncated]

Review by this user:
An Oldy But Not a Moldy: "Who Moved My Cheese?" is one of those afternoon reads that is supposed to facilitate introspection, and make you a happier, more productive, and more "employed" person in the marketplace.

It starts out with people meeting at a high school reunion going over their expectations, discoveries, disappointments and satisfactions. One of them explains how he read a story about four characters and found a little of each of them in himself. That introduces the reader to two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little people, Hem and Haw who seem to have an infinite supply of cheese at Station C in their maze, until one day...

The book examines how each character reacts to crises in his life, the crises of change, the actions they take to adapt to change or the mechanisms employed to resist it. We get a glimpse of the thinking of two characters in particular, and the discoveries they make about themselves. We, the readers are invited to make those same discoveries about our thinking to our outside stimuli and how we react, adapt or maladapt.

There is no harm in reading such a self-help book. It is not dripping with cheer and self-confidence, nor is the approach slick or cheesy. (Sorry).  I often doubt the efficacy of such messages unless they are read over and over again on a fairly continual basis simply because self-examination is ultimately forgiving and very, well, you might say, subjective.

There is a fair amount of wisdom in 93 pages of large print.

It's an oldy but not a moldy. It has a bite and is very sharp.

As the late Viktor Frankl said: "When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."

--- Example 6 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Literature & Fiction->Action & Adventure
- Title: Red Storm Rising: A Suspense Thriller
- Subtitle: Mass Market Paperback – July 1, 1987
- Price: None
- Author: Tom Clancy
- Description: Review Praise for Red Storm Rising “Exciting...fast and furious.”— USA Today “A rattling good yarn...lots of action.”— The New York Times Praise for Tom Clancy “He constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an engrossing tale.”— The New York Times Book Review “A brilliant describer of events.”— The Washington Post “No one can equal his talent for making military electronics and engineering intelligible and exciting...He remains the best!”— Houston Chronicle Abou ...[truncated]
- Features: From the author of the Jack Ryan series comes an electrifying #1 New York Times bestseller—a standalone military thriller that envisions World War 3... A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea, and air for ultimate global control. It is a story you will never forget. Hard-hitting. Suspenseful. And frighteningly real. “Harrowing...tense...a chilling ring of ...[truncated]

Review by this user:
A Storm Worth Weathering: "Red Storm Rising" is the only Tom Clancy novel without its arch hero, Jack Ryan. It is the fictional account of warfare in Europe between the Warsaw Pact forces and NATO. From Iceland where the Soviets open their attack, to Alfeld, Germany, to the sub-hunting in the Atlantic, Clancy demonstrates detailed knowledge of military tactics, weapons and language that add realism to this in-depth account of a Soviet bid for military hegemony in Europe.

You get a hint of the battle to come when a cynical French Military Liaison Officer monitoring a Soviet exercise in East Germany notices with some skepticism that the Soviets are lost again which plays to the NATO stereotype that the Soviets couldn't possibly find their way with signs in a non-Cyrillic alphabet. You know the invasion is coming.

As often happens in warfare, coincidence prevails over the best of planning, and a young air force lieutenant whose only military specialty is weather forecasting, ends up leading two marines. They will play a pivotal role in NATO's retaliation. Another main character is an army sergeant who takes over a tank platoon after his platoon leader's tank is destroyed by a one in a million artillery shell that rips through some of the thinnest armor of a tank---the top. There is also the destroyer commander who duels a Soviet submarine. The story will go back and forth to these characters and others fighting the campaign from many fronts.

My disappointment in this book comes from the sin of pride or esprit de corps. Having spent seven to eight months of the year for three years, in German training centers, towns, and forests planning scenario after scenario of preventing a Soviet incursion into Germany, I was almost insulted there was no mention of the two cavalry regiments that provided early warning for V Corps and VII Corps, the 11th and 2nd Cavalry Regiments, respectively. These units directly blocked the two most likely armor avenues of approach from the east. (Naturally, I was in one of them). And my first question was "Where the hell's Alfeld?"

But the novel is well-written despite my personal feelings, and it is a pleasure to read one that has all the military information correct.  I was quite impressed with what he knew about armor. The story kept my interest, and the author had the ability to change the venue just as I was getting very interested in it. It was on the order of "stay tuned when we return 40 pages from now."

The Soviet Union may be gone, but there is still a good story here worth reading. It's a storm worth weathering.

Toujours Pret!

--- Example 7 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Humor & Entertainment->Humor
- Title: Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults upon Our Language
- Subtitle: None
- Price: 8.99
- Author: Richard Lederer
- Description: From the Publisher Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed Up Metaphors...from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers, here is an outrageous treasury of assaults upon our common language that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter. From the Inside Flap Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of ...[truncated]
- Features: “Richard Lederer is the true king of language comedy. Anguished English is the funniest book I have ever read.”—Sidney Sheldon Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed Up Metaphors . . . from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers, here is an outrageous treasury of assaults upon our common language that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter.

Review by this user:
Buy Now at Amazon Which is On Sale for Only $7.95: This book contains headlines, malapropisms, school essays, parental notes to teachers, lawyer-witness dialogues, signs and other assaults on the English language that provide hours of chuckles and retelling to those who have not read it.

When you read a want ad that says: "Mixing bowl set designed to please a cook with round bottom for efficient beating," or the headline "Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan," you have to laugh.

It also reminds me of what a boss once told me: You can always deny what you said; you can never deny what you wrote.

This book is "overpriced, and worth every penny of it."

You can buy this at Amazon which is on sale for $7.95.

--- Example 8 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Biographies & Memoirs->Community & Culture
- Title: Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow
- Subtitle: Hardcover – September 6, 2006
- Price: 13.23
- Author: Kristen Breitweiser
- Description: From Publishers Weekly In September of 2001, Breitweiser had a tumor in her breast, was suffering from colitis and lupus and recovering from the death of her mother from cancer of the mouth. Then terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center, killing her beloved husband and hundreds more. Devastated, the New Jersey stay-at-home mom became an activist, channeling her pain and rage into learning everything she could about the U.S. government's role in the attacks—an excruciating journey that is carefully chr ...[truncated]
- Features: Breitweiser, one of the nation's leading 9/11 activists, was a Republican and a suburban mother and housewife until her husband was killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. The attack galvanized Breitweiser politically, and, along with three other 9/11 widows, she fought for the creation of the 9/11 Commission in the face of strong opposition from President Bush and many other top government officials. In this account, she describes her recovery from the nightmare of the attacks, and discusses cover- ...[truncated]

Review by this user:
A Cup of Public Caffeine: On September 11, 2001, Ron Breitweiser called his wife to tell her that there was an explosion in the other twin tower; he saw people jumping out of the windows to their deaths. He told her not to worry, he was all right. That was the last time she would ever talk to her husband. Kristen Breitweiser's life was about to literally collapse.

This is a well-written, poignant, heart-felt story of a woman who first blew off the man with whom she would later fall in love, and to whom she remained attached at the hip until his death. Infant daughter, golden retriever, home in the country and near the shore, and devoted husband transformed from an elysium dream to a stygian nightmare in one day.

After her shock, Kristen wanted answers. Why was legislation passed preventing airlines from being sued by victims? Why did the Bush administration oppose an independent commission, refuse to allow the commission to have subpoena power, limit the duration of the commission, stonewall on providing documents, refuse to allow the president to give sworn testimony, place restrictions on testimony of other White House staffers, spend $50,000,000 to investigate the loss of the Columbia Shuttle, but initially offer only $3,000,000 to investigate the greatest attack in US history? (An investigation into the attack on Pearl Harbor began twelve days after.)

This is Kristen Breitweiser's odyssey from New Jersey housewife to activist and advocate. She and three other widows a.k.a the "Jersey Girls," endured snide editorials from conservative rags, governmental lethargy, promises kept and broken, and stonewalling. They made innumerable trips to Washington D.C. for change and they were changed in the process, from Bush-supporting republicans to those holding an administration's secretive feet to the fire.

My only disappointment came when this classy, lawyer-educated widow felt a need to pen an afterword to a neurotic, spoiled brat who craves attention in any form, named Ann Coulter. But even in this 2nd person account, Breitweiser stayed on the high road. Then again, against Coulter that doesn't require much effort.

Please read the book. It truly is a wake-up call.

The specific book this user is about to review:
<|The Start of Book|>
**User Amazon store: David H. Voelker (Author),  Peter Z. Orton (Author),  Scott Adams (Author)**: - Category: Books->Science & Math->Mathematics
- Title: CliffsQuickReview Statistics
- Subtitle: 1st Edition
- Price: 10.99
- Author: Peter Z. Orton
  Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more
- Description: About the Author David Voelker (Ph.D. in Communication Research, Stanford University) is a respected educator, speaker and research consultant in Silicon Valley. He conducted some of the first research on interrelationships between popular music preferences in the seventies, anticipating the Internet's music recommendation services. Peter Orton is Program Director of Global Curriculum Technology for IBM, designing leadership development Web sites, videos, and online simulators for IBM'ers globally. Orton lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughter. Scott Adams is earning his Ph.D. in physics at Vanderbilt University. His main interest is in molecular biophysics, especially electrophysiology.
- Features:
CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. CliffsQuickReview Statistics introduces you to the fascinating world of statistics — a powerful tool used for finding patterns in data and inferring important connections between events in the real world. Many people find statistics confusing and intimidating; however, whether you're new to statistics or need to review for an important test, this reference will easily help clarify some of the elements of statistical reasoning and analysis. As you work your way through this review, you'll be ready to tackle such concepts as Graphical displays and numerical measures Graphical displays and numerical measures Probability and sampling Probability and sampling Principles of testing and univariate inferential tests Principles of testing and univariate inferential tests Bivariate relationshipsCliffsQuickReview Statistics can act as a supplement to your textbook and to classroom lectures. Use this reference in any way that fits your personal style for study and review — you decide what works best with your needs. You can read the book from cover to cover or just look for the information you want and put it back on the shelf for later. Here are just a few ways you can search for topics:Use the free Pocket Guide full of essential informationGet a glimpse of what you’ll gain from a chapter by reading through the Chapter Check-In at the beginning of each chapterUse the Chapter Checkout at the end of each chapter to gauge your grasp of the important information you need to knowTest your knowledge more completely in the CQR Review and look for additional sources of information in the CQR Resource CenterUse the glossary to find key terms fastWith titles available for all the most popular high school and college courses, CliffsQuickReview guides are a comprehensive resource that can help you get the best possible grades. Bivariate relationships CliffsQuickReview Statistics can act as a supplement to your textbook and to classroom lectures. Use this reference in any way that fits your personal style for study and review — you decide what works best with your needs. You can read the book from cover to cover or just look for the information you want and put it back on the shelf for later. Here are just a few ways you can search for topics: Use the free Pocket Guide full of essential information Use the free Pocket Guide full of essential information Get a glimpse of what you’ll gain from a chapter by reading through the Chapter Check-In at the beginning of each chapter Get a glimpse of what you’ll gain from a chapter by reading through the Chapter Check-In at the beginning of each chapter Use the Chapter Checkout at the end of each chapter to gauge your grasp of the important information you need to know Use the Chapter Checkout at the end of each chapter to gauge your grasp of the important information you need to know Test your knowledge more completely in the CQR Review and look for additional sources of information in the CQR Resource Center Test your knowledge more completely in the CQR Review and look for additional sources of information in the CQR Resource Center Use the glossary to find key terms fastWith titles available for all the most popular high school and college courses, CliffsQuickReview guides are a comprehensive resource that can help you get the best possible grades. Use the glossary to find key terms fast With titles available for all the most popular high school and college courses, CliffsQuickReview guides are a comprehensive resource that can help you get the best possible grades.
- Details:
  Publisher: Cliffs Notes; 1st edition (June 15, 2001)
  Language: English
  Paperback: 160 pages
  ISBN 10: 0764563882
  ISBN 13: 978-0764563881
  Item Weight: 5.7 ounces
  Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.32 x 8.3 inches
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First, PREDICT the substantive review THIS user would most likely write about THIS book, using their persona + past reviews + this book's context. Then turn that prediction into a rubric.

Write 8-12 numbered criteria that a judge will use to check whether a CANDIDATE review COVERS THE KEY POINTS this user would actually make about THIS book. Ground every criterion in the user's likely CONTENT, not surface style:
- Their likely OVERALL STANCE / verdict on this book (would they like or dislike it, and why), inferred from their taste and this book's genre/premise/themes.
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- Their characteristic OPINIONS / reactions (what they would praise or criticize here) and the direction/strength of sentiment.
- Any content they habitually include (recommendation, audience, warnings, comparisons).

Write the criteria to match HOW the candidate will be graded (coverage of the user's real review minus a penalty for extra content):
- Each criterion should reward COVERING a specific likely key point, checkable in a short review.
- Make them DISCRIMINATING: a candidate that writes a generic or merely on-topic review WITHOUT the user's specific likely take must score LOW; only a candidate that hits the user's actual likely points and stance scores HIGH.
- Include at least one criterion that PENALIZES speculative, hedging, off-target, or padded content not central to what this user would say.
- Do NOT reward surface formatting.

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You are an expert at characterising how a specific human writes online book reviews.

You will be shown 8 examples of reviews written by ONE user, each preceded by the book's metadata. Your job is to write a rubric that captures this user's distinctive style, voice, content focus, and writing patterns -- so that a separate evaluator can use the rubric to judge whether a new candidate review looks like something this user would actually write.

The user's persona:
<|The Start of Persona|>
Demographics:
  occupation: Former teacher and small publisher
Interests:
  Military history and memoirs, particularly praising 'THE reference for anyone needing facts on the USCG' and calling WWII letters 'invaluable to those researching WWII'
  American political and social history, finding books that offer 'SHOCKINGLY FRESH VIEW OF HISTORY' and 'close up view of American history at a time when our country was in turmoil'
  Educational policy and school reform, stating 'As a former teacher I can tell you, while the picture it paints is not pretty, it is factual'
  Literary craft and writing excellence, declaring Chandler 'THE GREATEST WRITER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY' and advising 'WANT TO KNOW HOW TO WRITE. READ CHANDLER'
  Adventure and travel memoirs, praising books where 'we can still feel it, see it, smell it, understand it' like the Pacific Crest Trail narrative
  Conservative political thought, praising 'CONSERVATIVE POWERHOUSE' books and 'THE SILENT MAJORITY SPEAKS'
  Publishing industry insider knowledge, noting 'AS A SMALL PUBLISHER MYSELF I FOUND IT FASCINATING'
  Mathematics education, calling a book 'a wealth of material for math teachers' and 'a must have for teachers looking to inspire'
Values:
  Prizes authenticity and truth-telling, repeatedly praising authors who 'does not flinch from showing all sides of the conflict with all their warts plainly visible'
  Values honesty over polish, stating 'be prepared for truth' and praising 'so completely honest about himself that we can't help but like him'
  Appreciates challenging conventional wisdom, praising a book as 'a sucker punch to the gut of conventional wisdom'
  Holds conservative political views, harshly criticizing Terry Gross with 'HONK IF SHE MAKES YOU GAG TOO' and praising books about 'THE SILENT MAJORITY'
  Expresses cultural conservatism, lamenting 'a culture idolizing the grotesque and aberrant' and criticizing 'how America has changed---and not always for the better'
  Values substance over trendiness, dismissing Iraq war blog as 'THE FRUIT OF PUBLISHERS' STAMPEDE TO PRINT IRAQ BLOGS' that 'never would have seen print' otherwise
  Believes in learning from experience, praising those who 'have worked within the system and seen its failings firsthand'
  Appreciates literary excellence combined with entertainment, praising works with 'SUBSTANCE AND PROFUNDITY AND A HECK OF A GOOD YARN'
Communication:
  Uses emphatic ALL CAPS frequently for titles and emphasis, as in 'HISTORY AT ITS BEST' and 'THE GREATEST WRITER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'
  Employs punchy, attention-grabbing headlines like 'HONK IF SHE MAKES YOU GAG TOO' and 'A VACATION WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR EASY CHAIR'
  Writes concise reviews typically 30-60 words, packing strong opinions into brief space
  Uses vivid sensory language, describing books that 'smells, tastes, feels like the island paradise' or are 'funny and sad and moving'
  Not hesitant to express harsh criticism, calling Terry Gross's style 'whiney' and 'fawning' with 'rudeness to those of whom she does not'
  Positions self as knowledgeable insider, stating 'As a former teacher' and 'AS A SMALL PUBLISHER MYSELF'
  Employs dramatic punctuation including dashes, ellipses, and multiple periods for effect
  Uses direct, declarative sentences mixed with explanatory clauses, creating rhythm between short punches and longer elaborations
Statistics:
  Average response length approximately 45-50 words, with range from 15 words (shortest) to 100 words (longest)
  Frequent use of superlatives: 'best,' 'greatest,' 'must,' 'perfect,' appearing in nearly every review
  Common phrases include 'this book,' 'read it,' 'truth,' 'history,' 'great,' used repeatedly across reviews
  Heavy capitalization pattern: approximately 30% of reviews contain ALL CAPS titles or emphatic phrases
  Sentence structure varies between very short declarative statements (5-8 words) and longer compound sentences (20-30 words)
  Consistent use of colons in titles to separate headline from elaboration (e.g., 'HISTORY AT ITS BEST: This book is...')
  Frequent use of triple dashes (---) and ellipses (...) for dramatic pauses, appearing in about 40% of responses
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The user's past reviews:
--- Example 1 ---
Book:
- Category:
- Title: The rogue of publishers' row;: Confessions of a publisher (A Banner Book)
- Subtitle: None
- Price: 4.95
- Author: Edward Uhlan
- Description:
- Features:

Review by this user:
VANITY PUBLISHER SPEAKS: GREAT BOOK BY THE BLACK SHEEP OF THE PUBLISHING CLAN. AS A SMALL PUBLISHER MYSELF I FOUND IT FASCINATING READING ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES OF A MAN IN MY BUSINESS HALF A CENTURY EARLIER. A CANDID LOOK AT A SEAMY BUSINESS.

--- Example 2 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Literature & Fiction->United States
- Title: Alas, Babylon
- Subtitle: Paperback – July 5, 2005
- Price: 12.79
- Author: Pat Frank
- Description: Review “An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” — The New Yorker “Ingenious. . . . Provocative.” — New York Times “An enthralling and vivid story of the follies and failures of people, their courage and cruelty, their treachery and triumphs. Mr. Frank is a magnificent writer.” — Chicago Sunday Tribune “A warm, continuously interesting story of what can happen to a group of ordinary pe ...[truncated]
- Features: “An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” — The New Yorker The classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, with an introduction by award-winning science fiction writer and scientist David Brin. “Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was in ...[truncated]

Review by this user:
To Kill a Mockingbird with Strontium 90: Seriously, if you enjoyed To Kill A Mockingbird, you will enjoy this novel. It captures the same place, a few decades later, and the writing is homey, honest and subtly powerful, as all novels had to be before all limits were removed from writing, before lazy writing became the thing, before writing became more about the writer than the story.

The novel seems to be touting increased nuclear armaments for the US, and that I missed in a first reading decades ago. Where the film: [[ASIN:B00004XPPE Fail-safe (Special Edition)]] emphasized the humanity of the Soviets, this seems to vilify them. Odd, coming from a writer of this caliber, but no surprise, given the times.

What is so refreshing about this story is that no one in it is a superman, an ex-CIA or special ops, or mercenary with deadly hand to hand skills. This is a story about 'reglar' folks, like you or I, with all our weaknesses and strengths. It's very much more realistic and because it is, we care more about the people in it.

If you're a young person raised on TV and films with three-quarter second cuts, you will find it boring in places. Sorry, no zombies here and few 'splosions. No one dismembers anyone with a chainsaw. Just people like you and those you know trying to do right and succeeding or failing after the power goes out. Here, too, are people doing terrible things no zombie would ever do, the fact that they are just people making it more horrific yet.

They don't write em like this anymore, and it's too bad, because we lost a lot when we allowed writing to get crass and lazy.

--- Example 3 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Biographies & Memoirs->Community & Culture
- Title: The Egg and I
- Subtitle: Paperback – June 24, 2008
- Price: 11.29
- Author: Betty MacDonald
- Description: Review “For all the allegedly gloomy moments, The Egg and I is an astoundingly light-hearted book. The MacDonalds, one gathers, had both youth and gumption on their side, to say nothing of an abounding humor that bounced them over the direst crises. — New York Times “I first read Betty MacDonald’s The Egg and I in 1946, on my return to England after the war, and it made me so homesick for the USA that I cried. I read it again around 1950, and laughed myself silly. Re-reading it now, I not only think it’s a ...[truncated]
- Features: “A work of real comic genius. . . . A wonderful, funny, warm, honest book, and, to use a much overused word, a classic.” –Michael Korda, author of Country Matters When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a mome ...[truncated]

Review by this user:
A BOOK OF WONDERS AND TRUTH: This book is a great one for anyone who recognizes truth when they read it. It's comfortable as an old slipper and funny and sad and real---just like life.

--- Example 4 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Literature & Fiction->Action & Adventure
- Title: Prey
- Subtitle: Mass Market Paperback – November 11, 2003
- Price: 9.97
- Author: Michael Crichton
- Description: Review “TERRIFYING…IRRESISTIBLY SUSPENSEFUL.” — New York Times Book Review “INTRICATE PLOTTING AND FLAWLESS PACING…you won’t be able to put it down.” — Time magazine “CRACKLING…MYSTERIOUS….” — Entertainment Weekly “Just what his fans expect: A WILD, SCARY RIDE…” — Detroit Free Press “Another PAGE-TURNING TRIUMPH” — Charlotte Observer “INCREDIBLY SCARY and relentless” — Minneapolis Star Tribune “PREY WILL KEEP YOU TURNING PAGES” — Chattanooga Times “RELENTLESSLY ENTERTAINING” — Raleigh News & Observer “… a h ...[truncated]
- Features: In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horriblywrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolvingswiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.

Review by this user:
ROBOT DANCE: You may turn the pages, but you will not care about either the robotlike heroine or hero in this mechanical dance of a novel. The hero, if you can call him that, is more concerned with the price of diapers and feeding the baby than he is that his wife has become a stranger who slaps the baby.

When the story finally progresses from shopping and changing diapers to fighting the little monsters, the plot loses all originality and becomes a cut and paste from other books and film. Sad.

That this is what passes for popular bestselling fiction is a good reason not to read it.

--- Example 5 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Literature & Fiction->United States
- Title: The Playboy Book of Science Fiction
- Subtitle: Hardcover – January 1, 1998
- Price: 6.59
- Description: Amazon.com Review Despite (or perhaps because of) its once taboo subject matter, Playboy magazine has garnered a reputation as a market for daring, innovative short fiction since its inception in 1953. In particular, science fiction authors used Playboy as a forum for stories in which they explored literary themes and adult situations that would have rendered them unpublishable by mainstream SF magazines then aimed at teenagers. Alice K. Turner, Playboy 's fiction editor, has collected a remarkable set of s ...[truncated]
- Features: A unique and intriguing collection of short stories from such contributors as Arthur C. Clark, Ray Bradbury, and Ursula K. LeGuin covers such topics as the Golden Age, New Wave, Cyberpunk, and Virtual Sex.

Review by this user:
nothing to get hot under the collar about: If you positively prick with perspiration at the possibility of  perusing popular pablum previously published in close propinquity with the plentifully pulchritudinous pussycats of Playboy, please procure this book presently. If, on the other hand, you just want to read some damned good stories, then pass on this also ran and get instead:  [[ASIN:1892391201 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever]]. Triptree will blow you away.

--- Example 6 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->History->Americas
- Title: The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New Afghanistan (P.S.)
- Subtitle: Paperback – January 4, 2011
- Price: 11.39
- Author: Eric Blehm
- Description: Review “ The Only Thing Worth Dying For is not only brilliant, it’s the one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan.” — Former Congressman Charlie Wilson “A skillfully reported and masterfully written account of one of the most crucial moments of the War Against Terror. Blehm reminds us of the perils, the triumphs and the sacrifices made in the name of freedom.” — Bob Woodruff, ABC News correspondent “Through careful reporting an ...[truncated]
- Features: "The one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan.” —Former Congressman Charlie Wilson From the author of the award-winning THE LAST SEASON, the untold story of the U.S. Army Special Forces team that conquered the Taliban against overwhelming odds while protecting Hamid Karzai, viewed at the time as the country’s best hope for a successful, democratically-elected leader. On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001, a U ...[truncated]

Review by this user:
Ignorant kids, easily conditioned to hate and murder whomever inconveniences the corporate state.: Wouldn't it be marvelous? Wouldn't it be wonderful? if there really were noble reasons to murder other human beings? Wouldn't it feel good to believe that the hairdos on FOX and the fat man on AM radio always tell us the truth about why things happen and why we must send our kids to murder other kids? I would love to believe it, too, but unfortunately facts get in the way. So, keep your blinders on. Avoid reading those not on the CIA's payroll. Keep thinking with your emotions and keep believing that war is anything but a corporate cash cow.

Oh, but what of those noble self-sacrificing kids who fight and die for the selfless cause of bringing democracy to benighted lands, and, of course, to defend our democracy at home? What of them? They're kids. Kids can be conditioned to believe and do anything. Are their lives somehow more valuable than the millions they've slaughtered? Think so if it feels good.

Meanwhile, on to the next noble slaughter, on to the next profitable quarterly report for the defense industry, and on to the next round of our civil liberties sacrificed in the name of preserving our freedom. Oh, the glory!

--- Example 7 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Politics & Social Sciences->Social Sciences
- Title: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
- Subtitle: Hardcover – January 25, 2011
- Price: 14.18
- Author: Peggy Orenstein
- Description: Amazon.com Review Product Description The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent. Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast a ...[truncated]
- Features: The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent. Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as a source—the source—of female empowe ...[truncated]

Review by this user:
Superb parody of modern culture and publishing: At first, hearing this author on NPR, I admit I was confused. It seemed hard to believe that this chatty, woman lacking any creds at all was on the radio talking about what was obviously just her opinion, her thoughts, her concerns, none of which seemed worthy of consideration by anyone outside her group of friends. Could this be for real? Has our culture really become that shallow?

Could a book that avoids any serious discussion of the decadence and degradation of our culture and instead obsesses about the color pink, about the nature/nurture of girls, about Disney princesses, about what the waitress at IHOP said, about the author's five-year-old's tantrums really be published by Harper and discussed on NPR as if it were weighty and profound stuff?

Then I got it. It's a spoof. It's a parody of culture and big publishing, both of whom have become parodies of themselves---funny and true. Publishing, broadcasting and our culture really has become as empty as this book, and this book has captured the ethos of chatty fatuousness to perfection. Kudos!

--- Example 8 ---
Book:
- Category: Books->Mystery, Thriller & Suspense->Thrillers & Suspense
- Title: Zombie: A Novel
- Subtitle: Paperback – Illustrated, September 15, 2009
- Price: 15.79
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- Description: From the Back Cover Meet Quentin P. He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother, though of course they do not believe the charge (sexual molestation of a minor) that got him in that bit of trouble. He is a challenge for his court-appointed psychiatrist, who nonetheless is encouraged by the increasingly affirmative quality of his dreams and his openness in discussing them. He is a thoroughly sweet young man for his wealthy grandmother, who gives him more and more, and can deny him less and ...[truncated]
- Features: Zombie is a classic novel of dark obsession from the extraordinary Joyce Carol Oates. A brilliant, unflinching journey into the mind of a serial killer, Zombie views the world through the eyes of Quentin P., newly paroled sex offender, as he chillingly evolves from rapist to mass murderer. Joyce Carol Oates—the prolific author of so many extraordinary bestsellers, including The Gravediggers Daughter, Blonde, and The Falls —demonstrates why she ranks among America’s most respected and accomplished literary a ...[truncated]

Review by this user:
Title as cynical selling tool for yet more JCO literary gutter slime: This came up in a zombie search and how cynical is that? What possible relevance does this title have to the subject matter?

That aside, this is literary darling JCO at her most repulsive, depressing, life-denying best. Considering suicide? This will push you over the edge.

The specific book this user is about to review:
<|The Start of Book|>
**User Amazon store: Joe Haldeman (Author)**: - Category: Books->Science Fiction & Fantasy->Science Fiction
- Title: The Forever War
- Subtitle: None
- Price: 10.29
- Description:
- Features:
The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic-- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries...
- Details:

<|The End of Book|>

First, PREDICT the substantive review THIS user would most likely write about THIS book, using their persona + past reviews + this book's context. Then turn that prediction into a rubric.

Write 8-12 numbered criteria that a judge will use to check whether a CANDIDATE review COVERS THE KEY POINTS this user would actually make about THIS book. Ground every criterion in the user's likely CONTENT, not surface style:
- Their likely OVERALL STANCE / verdict on this book (would they like or dislike it, and why), inferred from their taste and this book's genre/premise/themes.
- The SPECIFIC aspects they would most likely comment on here -- name concrete elements from THIS book (particular plot points, characters, themes, pacing, craft, comparisons) that a reader like this user reacts to.
- Their characteristic OPINIONS / reactions (what they would praise or criticize here) and the direction/strength of sentiment.
- Any content they habitually include (recommendation, audience, warnings, comparisons).

Write the criteria to match HOW the candidate will be graded (coverage of the user's real review minus a penalty for extra content):
- Each criterion should reward COVERING a specific likely key point, checkable in a short review.
- Make them DISCRIMINATING: a candidate that writes a generic or merely on-topic review WITHOUT the user's specific likely take must score LOW; only a candidate that hits the user's actual likely points and stance scores HIGH.
- Include at least one criterion that PENALIZES speculative, hedging, off-target, or padded content not central to what this user would say.
- Do NOT reward surface formatting.

Output ONLY the rubric:
<rubric>
1. <criterion>
...
</rubric>