A review by heat_her
All Her Father's Guns by James Warner

3.0

All Her Father’s Guns was funny and scary at the same time. The story takes place in the west (California, Arizona, Nevada) and is told from two alternating points of view–those of Cal and Reid. It essentially makes fun of the extremes seen everywhere in the United States, both on the left and the right: from politics, to religion, to academics, to the corporate world, no extremist view is safe from Warner’s satire and wit. All Her Father’s Guns is a (fictitious) study on just how ridiculous our political system–and pretty much everything else–can be. It also reminds us that we are human, and no matter what we believe in or how hard we work at it, we are never going to be perfect (and the more staunch/extreme our beliefs, the more room there will be for hypocrisy, which will happen). Parts made me laugh, parts made me shudder, and overall it was a decent book.

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