Term Limits
Product Description
In a night of shattering brutality, three of Washingtons’s most powerful and unscrupulous politicians have been executed with surgical precision. Their assassins, vanishing without a trace, have delivered a shocking ultimatum to the leaders of the American government: set aside petty, partisan politics and restore power to the people, or be held to deadly account. No one, they warn, is out of their reach—not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals … More >>
December 6, 2009
Tags: Limits, Term Posted in: Politics
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Click on over to any of his books and that term’s all over “customer reviews”. But he’s chump change in that respect alongside this Flynn dude. Look at the blurbs from book reviewers on the inside cover of this book and it’s “Clancy look back–someone’s gaining on you”. The difference is that Jack Ryan & co. come across as ADULTS rather than overgrown adolescents. This story starts with commando-style hits on a congressman and two senators. But everyone from the press to the White House to the freshman congressman who’s Our Hero is saying “They deserved to die”. It struck me along about the third repetition that if this were a movie, I’d be lip-synching the remark and annoying other viewers. And you will notice that there are no positive minority characters here–none whatever. Instead, what we get is a slighting reference to a black congresswoman by one character–he thinks all she does is obsess on political correctness and look for racists around every corner, plus the fact that one of the commandoes makes himself up to LOOK black. In fact, with few exceptions, the book is “Eire-o-centric” to the point of aw-come-on. I know that as a “Kraut-Mick” myself it isn’t supposed to bother me, but it really grates on me. The whole message here is that elected officials are all self-serving and don’t belong in office, but if you carry that too far, it verges on disrespect for the voter. I mean hell-oooo? Real people voted for this “shadow government”. Real Americans. In the real world, I myself voted for two senators and one congressman. It’s getting to the point where “unworthiness for office ” simply means “my party’s guy should’ve won”. Yeah yeah yeah, it’s trendy to talk that way nowadays. But so are the Spice Girls.
Rating: 1 / 5
Term Limits has a sickening political message. The novel is based on the assassinations of members of Congress and other political figures. The characters are silly; the protagonists are kept weak throughout the novel (if not comical) and the antagonists develop split-personalities – some becoming heroes and others villains. Bizarre justifications are given for assassinating the politicians and the attempt to capture the killers is half-hearted. The book will appeal to rightwing extremists – with “extremists” being the key word. For the rest of us looking for a good book, I would strongly suggest bypassing this one.
Rating: 1 / 5
A peculiarly American world view where the ‘heroes’ murder democratically elected US politicians but are also fighting the ‘baddies’ – who, you guessed it, are murdering democratically elected US politicians. However, within the differing shadings of fascism shown by all the protagonists, we are supposed to sympathise with the heroes!
One to throw away
Rating: 1 / 5
If guys like Steve Coleman, Michael O’Rouke (or his grandfather) were truly in charge, this world would be in real trouble. The problem with Vince Flynn and other Gordon Liddy-types is that there is no gray area for them. You are either a military-bred patriot who looks at killing a pleasurable requirement for democracy, or else you are a liberal Frenchy who will doom the world to communal abyss. The simpleton writing Flynn employs here will certainly appeal to the talk radio set. But the plot reminds me of something a overzealous junior ROTC kid would put togetehr. If the Founding Fathers were truly stupid enough to leave our government vulnerable to right wing nut jobs like the O’Rouke’s, we’d have found it out a long time ago.
Good book club material for the lower reading group. Garbage beyond.
Rating: 1 / 5
The fact that the hero of Term Limits, a young Minnesota politician, condones and abets the assassination of “corrupt” politicians is symptomatic of a sick society that spawns violence from Waco to Columbine. Mr Flynn seems to have learned little at his Catholic Liberal Arts College. Instead he preaches a dangerous philosophy that rank him right up there with rap singers calling for the murder of policemen. There are no consequences for the assassins in this book and that, too, should be condemned. I give this book a well-deserved thumbs down.
Rating: 1 / 5
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