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landrum 's review for:
The Terminal List
by Jack Carr
This book was a fun read and suspiciously good for something supposedly written by a guy who had an interesting career as a SEAL before doing any writing. Similarly ghostwriter-ish of him is his annual release schedule, which isn’t unbelievably fast but is still a little suspect.
I wouldn’t call it drivel per se, it definitely has a message it’s trying to make, but it’s pretty much all classic trump era conservative takes. I’m not sure what his stance on torture is, as he describes waterboarding as something we did “when we still had the will to win” but is later rather pious about the treatment of prisoners, saying that not torturing them is part of what sets America apart. I suspect this may be the result of a disagreement between the author and writer.
The third most liked review of this book on Goodreads had me expecting a remorseless, arch-conservative tirade of a book. Unfortunately, it’s much more measured than that. I was expecting something truly out of pocket when they referred to the book saying Black Muslims weren’t real Muslims, but it’s said by a jihadi who is about to martyr himself, so it doesn’t really read as a reflection of the views of the author so much as a reflection of the character’s hardcore fundamentalism. I did take issue with the portrayal of the leader of a mosque who funnels money to terrorist organizations as indistinguishable from a legitimately well meaning Islamic cleric, which felt like a bad faith way to indirectly point the finger at Islam as a whole.
All told, if you can put up with occasional moments full of talking points you would expect from your grandparents, I recommend.
I wouldn’t call it drivel per se, it definitely has a message it’s trying to make, but it’s pretty much all classic trump era conservative takes. I’m not sure what his stance on torture is, as he describes waterboarding as something we did “when we still had the will to win” but is later rather pious about the treatment of prisoners, saying that not torturing them is part of what sets America apart. I suspect this may be the result of a disagreement between the author and writer.
The third most liked review of this book on Goodreads had me expecting a remorseless, arch-conservative tirade of a book. Unfortunately, it’s much more measured than that. I was expecting something truly out of pocket when they referred to the book saying Black Muslims weren’t real Muslims, but it’s said by a jihadi who is about to martyr himself, so it doesn’t really read as a reflection of the views of the author so much as a reflection of the character’s hardcore fundamentalism. I did take issue with the portrayal of the leader of a mosque who funnels money to terrorist organizations as indistinguishable from a legitimately well meaning Islamic cleric, which felt like a bad faith way to indirectly point the finger at Islam as a whole.
All told, if you can put up with occasional moments full of talking points you would expect from your grandparents, I recommend.