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joemodz 's review for:
The Kremlin Conspiracy
by Joel C. Rosenberg
It is the rarest of occurrences when I stop reading a book. The Kremlin Conspiracy started off with so much promise and it came crashing to the ground so quickly.
One star because I can't do zero...
Did you ever flip the radio station and think you were on a sort of a good rock station when all of a sudden something was missing, something was off, something was just not right? Then you realize you've switched to a christian rock station. (It’s an oxymoron if ever there was one—a christian rock station.)
That's where I found myself. A christian international thriller. How can that be? I'll tell you; it can’t be. “We’ll never get off this mountain without divine intervention.” And then the evangelical soldier goes on to shoot and kill as many people as possible (they were brown, so it didn’t matter), and this after the pseudo-hero murders his stepfather who was, in fairness, abusing his mother; but, like all good christians, he took up the gun and shot the man himself not once but twice. The police were pulling up outside!
Was that a commandmant or a beatitude?
"Thou shalt execute whomever you see fit."
"Blessed are the murderes, for they shall... how did that go?"
There was more proselytizing in this book that interfered with what had the potential to be a good plot and a good storyline that it brought it to a crashing halt. I could not go on any further. I tried and I tried to stick it out for a while. Every third page was devoted to how god wanted this, and through conferences with his pastor, and to find this in the bible, and enough!
Plus, the overt hypocrisy of evangelical christians came through over and over again, and that's what we're dealing with today. This book, written in 2018, as a side note makes fun of the weak and ineffective president during the setting of the novel (referring to Clinton, no doubt), but it is written to defend our impotent president who is actually a pawn of Moscow. This book leads up to where we find ourselves today, with so called evangelical christians who support the death penalty and own guns to kill and are only interested in themselves and who voted for the president we currently have.
This would be an interesting case study for somebody studying attempts at swaying public opinion through fiction.
BTW—when looking at other reviews on Goodreads, someone wrote that she knew it would be good because it was published by a respected christian publisher. If only it had a banner across the cover telling the rest of us what it was. CHRISTIAN WRITING
The only good religious thing??? thank god I didn't buy it and only borrowed it:)
One star because I can't do zero...
Did you ever flip the radio station and think you were on a sort of a good rock station when all of a sudden something was missing, something was off, something was just not right? Then you realize you've switched to a christian rock station. (It’s an oxymoron if ever there was one—a christian rock station.)
That's where I found myself. A christian international thriller. How can that be? I'll tell you; it can’t be. “We’ll never get off this mountain without divine intervention.” And then the evangelical soldier goes on to shoot and kill as many people as possible (they were brown, so it didn’t matter), and this after the pseudo-hero murders his stepfather who was, in fairness, abusing his mother; but, like all good christians, he took up the gun and shot the man himself not once but twice. The police were pulling up outside!
Was that a commandmant or a beatitude?
"Thou shalt execute whomever you see fit."
"Blessed are the murderes, for they shall... how did that go?"
There was more proselytizing in this book that interfered with what had the potential to be a good plot and a good storyline that it brought it to a crashing halt. I could not go on any further. I tried and I tried to stick it out for a while. Every third page was devoted to how god wanted this, and through conferences with his pastor, and to find this in the bible, and enough!
Plus, the overt hypocrisy of evangelical christians came through over and over again, and that's what we're dealing with today. This book, written in 2018, as a side note makes fun of the weak and ineffective president during the setting of the novel (referring to Clinton, no doubt), but it is written to defend our impotent president who is actually a pawn of Moscow. This book leads up to where we find ourselves today, with so called evangelical christians who support the death penalty and own guns to kill and are only interested in themselves and who voted for the president we currently have.
This would be an interesting case study for somebody studying attempts at swaying public opinion through fiction.
BTW—when looking at other reviews on Goodreads, someone wrote that she knew it would be good because it was published by a respected christian publisher. If only it had a banner across the cover telling the rest of us what it was. CHRISTIAN WRITING
The only good religious thing??? thank god I didn't buy it and only borrowed it:)