- Paperback: 340 pages
- Publisher: DreamCatcher Publishing Inc. (Nov 30 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0973923415
- ISBN-13: 978-0973923414
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#26,270 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #35 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Political
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
not Orwell in a million years,
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This review is from: Hotter Than Hell (Paperback)
Just to balance the picture. Believable dialog? No. Stiff dialog that adds nothing to the momentum, adds only facts, no emotion involved, everybody talks like everybody else. The character of the general was to me a wooden figure who did not change his outlook from beginning to end, who at the end looked back and was satisfied with himself for the horrors he had committed in the name of control and personal power. A glimmer here and there of recognition of those horrors, but no conscious appreciation of his own responsibility. The foundation of the novel was well executed, that is, the disintegration of society under the pressures of global warming and man's stripping the world of its resources. But this too was treated lightly in passing with no depth, no detail. In the military parts, which were the major part of the novel, it was to me simply a list of companies and regiments and divisions and etc, a list of numbers and a description of where they went and how it turned out. On and on and on. Sometimes I had to wonder which number belonged to which side, but the problem was the author hadn't made me care enough to work it out. I wish the author had just gotten a little into the soul of his protagonist, which might have heightened the end result exponentially.So, 1 star for effort and for an important premise.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
1984,
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This review is from: Hotter Than Hell (Paperback)
Orwell's 1984 is the prequell to this story! Well written, believable dialogue ( a + in the characterazation of the General) This story is Hobbesian in focus and all too PLAUSEABLE! I RECOMMEND it! I am frightened by it! I hope it is a mistaken look forward! BUT somehow (like 1984) I am not convinced it is not showing the future!
5 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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INSIDER writes the true possible future,
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This review is from: Hotter Than Hell (Paperback)
So, an environmental scientist writes a fictional account of the global warming possibilities and Canada's Government warns the author not to show up at a public event plugging his book, while his name-badge shows he works for Government Environment Dep't?Must be a hell of a good book! Oh Canada what's really going on with global warming,eh? Richard Rohmer wrote fascinating books on the Canada/USA dependency and where it can lead. As a scientist this new writer will know he facts just as Rohmer is a person interviewed on CBC/CTV on military matters as he knows the facts. Books by those on the inside are always great! Jan-Michael Wildeman
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