Solar Flare [Hardcover]

 

 

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I read this book (see my review) and was totally replused by it.

I saw these other reviews after I had already written mine. I don't know what the guy from Havelock was reading, but it wasn't the same book I read.

This book contains gleeful accounts of numerous acts of violence, though mostly after the fact. A female Supreme Court Justice who acts to oppose the President in this story is murdered and and it is brushed off as just too bad. A member of congress who "casts an envious eye upon powers of the office of the presidency" (my words, not the author's, but the point is obvious in the text)loses and eye, literally, and is left little more than a vegetable from brain damage, this is again brushed off with a laugh by that same President.

This is violence in its worst form -- presented as righteous payback and treated as a big joke. This book reads as if it were written by a White Supremisist -- every bit as rabid as Osama Bin Laden in his hate of those unlike himself -- "anointed by God" to straighten out the heathen or kill them which ever proves most needful at the time.

I am, as I said in my full review, a devout christian mom and a writer as well. I am not a whiny liberal. I am absolutely pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-monogamy, pro-premartial abstinence, and over-whelmingly anti-welfare. I am known in my community for speaking out for the rights of christians to practice their religious faith openly in public schools. I prayerfully vote republican.

This book is NOT what I would want my kids, or any one else's either, exposed to.

I have read this book and have found it to be quite enjoyable.
I love what if scenario's.

If you take the time to read all of the reviews on this book as I have, you will come away with a certain degree of confusion. You have 8th graders telling you that they are bored (...a rather standard attitude stance of their age group) and college instructors analyzing the book to death. Perhaps I can help you better in your choice. First, something about me. I do not have TV. I made a personal choice to get rid of it years ago, and because of that I have already gone through the withdrawal of needing to have immediate minute-by-minute sense gratification. So, if you are a TV-holic, probably like the bored 8th graders, do not buy this book. You will require an imagination and clear inner eye which, if you are a TV-holic, will be greatly dimmed. If you are a person who has problems with conservative Christian principals, do not read this book. Those of us who do have conservative Christian principals will not dislike you because you do not share the same principals, though many of us would greatly appreciate you reducing your whining. Larry Burkett is quite a well-known Christian author, and so I am confused by some people who would buy a book by a known Christian author and then complain about the Christian principals within it. If you don't like Christian oriented books, just don't buy them. I read all kinds of books by both well-known and lesser-known authors. When I pick a book to read, I do not spend my time comparing one author to another or one book to another. Why would I compare Tony Hillerman to John Grisham or Larry Burkett to Frank Peretti. I have read all of these authors many times over, but I have never wasted my time comparing one to the other. I simply read the book. So, if you are a bored 8th grader...don't read this book. If you are someone who wants to analyze a book to death...don't read this book. However, if you want to read a book that requires YOU to become involved instead of just being brain-slammed as those who are TV-holics, then you will find this book to be a fun book to read. And for those of you out there who just MUST compare authors, this book will not take you away to the dessert's of Tony Hillerman's Navajo people, it will not tell you how to "skip Christmas" as Mr. Grisham's novels would, and it will not scare you senseless like Frank's writings will....however, it will make you think about what actually CAN happen in the event of a major solar flare (which, by the way, is fully understood by former NASA employee, Larry Burkett) and how people would survive it by pulling together and maintaining standards of personal conduct.

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