- Hardcover: 863 pages
- Publisher: Accurate Press (January 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1888118040
- ISBN-13: 978-1888118049
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16 x 5.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (303 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #385,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
From a Woman's Point of View,
By salzcyn "hunting grandma" (Oxford, NC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unintended Consequences (Hardcover)
... First of all, I loved it and found myself reading the last few pages s-l-o-w-l-y, as I didn't want to end this wonderful reading. I learned a great deal from the book about various calibers and reloads and mechanisms and I didn't find it onerous or difficult in its technical explications. I'd heard about most of the history in the book, but a memory jog is always good, especially when the history is so well documented. Certainly, Ross is evidently on the side of the gun culture, but I doubt that anyone out of that culture would even pick up such a heavy tome. The characters are pretty well depicted and the action is exciting, although I could have managed without quite as graphic a description of the kinky sex--but I think that those scenes were essential to the plot. Recommend this book to all in the gun culture and especially to their wives.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very intriguing, well written book,
By Steven D. Smothers (Green River, Wyoming USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unintended Consequences (Hardcover)
I highly recommend reading "Unintended Consequences". It is, at its root, a book about the fight for freedom and the cost of keeping that freedom.I ordered "Unintended Consequences" from the publisher when it first came out and felt fortunate to receive a copy of the book signed by the author. I read the book twice. The first time was a marathon "can't put it down" read. After starting it, I found it to intriguing to stop reading until I had reached the end. I waited several months and then read it again, but at a slower pace, and I took notes this time. I found the detail in this book to be amazing. John Ross knows what he's talking about when it comes to gun culture. I did some investigative research after the second reading. A lot of the information in my notes turned out to be factual pertaining to gun laws and historical events. Another point about this book that I enjoyed was the way the author combined fact with fiction to the point that it was often very difficult to know if what you were reading actually happened or was fiction. Very catchy the way it was all interwoven. Some people would find this book an uncomfortable read because of what it implies from both sides (as a citizen and as a member of law enforcement or government). I was at times uncomfortable while reading it, mainly because of the victimization of innocent people and at the erosion of our second amendment rights over the years, which this book does an excellent job of uncovering. Some people would regard this book as being fanatical but the question has to be asked, "How is it people can justify fanatism about the environment, women's rights, animal rights, or whatever right they think is "right" but when that fanatism extends to the second amendment, suddenly that right is wrong?"
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A well structured, informative, exciting political warning,
By Lior (Kfar Yonah Israel) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unintended Consequences (Hardcover)
This book has a lot to do with American culture and the self-perpetuating cycle of political power. It describes the nicer aspects of recreational use of firearms, and the use of guns against political tyranny, and slowly builds the stories of the protaganists and current laws. The underlying message is common in the logical explanations of pro Second Amendment folks - that guns are not evil, and only criminal individuals and governments with guns are evil, and that gun control is not about guns but about control. The book is an excellent amalgamation of fact and fiction, and does well to describe terrible acts by the US government, from the bonus army quelling to various raids by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The ATF are shown as the ultimate bad guys and abusers of power, attempting to intimidate the US citizenry into unconstitutional disarmament, and the protagonists are out to stop them. This is a bloody civil war on a small, graspable scale - the book is a warning against abuse of government power, without covering the broader spectrum of the gun control debate (e.g. the assault weapons ban barely mentioned). The plot is somewhere between realistic and far fetched, and generates plenty of interest and willingness to read on. Most of the major characters are believable and are survivors. Well worth reading and lending to friends who have no stance on the issue of the 2nd Amendment - the book may well prevent one of the greater evils - the indifference of good men.
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