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Lobito Studio lobitostudio — Starts off lots of plot threads, fails to resolve most of them by the end. Don't start it unless you're willing to commit to completing the full book series. Also, a _very_ long book. It feels much longer than it's 670 pages.

Dhinesh Kumar dhineshkumar — If you like suspense, you’ll love The Immortals by J.T. Ellison that hit the bookstores on October 1st. It’s the fifth book in the Taylor Jackson series and it’ll leave you craving more. Set in Nashville, the story centers on the murders of eight high school students found with pentacles carved into their stomachs. With no apparent clues, solving the case will take intelligence, hunches, and a fair amount of luck. Taylor Jackson, newly reinstated on the police force, is in charge of the investigation. While trying to solve the murders, she’s haunted by the disappearance of her friend and father figure, Fitz. She can’t shirk responsibility to leave and search for him, but she fears the worst and it takes an emotional toll. Ellison has given the antagonists a fresh look by pulling elements of the paranormal into an everyday world – think witches and vampire wannabes. She gives the reader a microscopic view of the Goth world underbelly and throws in drugs, sex, and peer pressure. The plot is tightly twisted, dark, and completely engrossing. And while Taylor is solving the murders, her love interest, Baldwin, is called back to Quantico to answer questions on his actions during an earlier murder investigation. It seems Baldwin has been keeping a very big secret from Taylor. One that could doom their relationship. Despite not having read the previous books, it was easy to pick up the back-story. A very satisfying read, it grabbed my attention from the start, maintained the tension throughout, and had a bombshell ending. It left me growling in frustration because I have to wait until March 2011 for the next book.

0 0 7575718206a74 — "Pack of Thieves" is passionate and interesting in places, and reveals the complicity of capitalists everywhere in the Holocaust. Many were outright aware that their profits came from dispossessed Jews, and many cynically defended themselves at war's end with ridiculous pleas of ignorance and innocence. Complicit governments then let the profiteering bastards off the hook because any convictions would have implicated the role of the governments themselves in making this possible, US not least among them. I suppose this is the most important lessons of this book, albeit not necessarily the intended ones: both governments and wealthy capitalists of "neutral" or allied nations made the war possible DIRECTLY, by supplying the Axis. While doing so, they profited handsomely. When the war was over, very few (if any) of these "entrepreneurs" were punished. The need to cover their crimes up at the level of both governments, and the institutions and individuals involved, made it even harder to research and understand the holocaust, leading to unforseen complications. Perhaps most importantly, some of the more basic reasons for the holocaust, the stoking of racial hatred in the masses by the powerful so as to keep the focus off of their own dirty dealings, has once again been elbowed off the table. Today, it is perhaps common knowledge that Henry Ford was a huge anti-semite and a Nazi sympathizer, but the extent of institutional collaboration with the Nazis remains unknown. Furthermore, the mechanisms at work in the machinations of power-- why and when wars are declared between nations which formerly engaged in heavy trading, what happens to capital flows in times of war and between "hostile" nations, what is the role of capital in starting, stopping (preventing), and maintaining armed conflicts, how and why wars are fought in the first place, etc... -- these bigger questions are, as always, left unasked or (more rarely) unanswered. If you want to learn about the holocaust, you still have to visit first the political philosophy of the likes of Noam Chomsky; you will not learn much about it from this book. On the other hand, already armed with the necessary background information, you will find some interesting details here. In 1941 as ever, profit was the highest law of the land. the author of this book feels completely comfortable announcing that the Holocaust was the greatest crime against humanity of the twentieth century (not that it wasn't, but the way this notion is repeatedly stated without the least expectation of being challenged is characteristic of Holocaust literature-- surely there is at least SOME room for debate on this question!?--- consider the many other genocides of the 20th.... armenia under the turks, east timor, rwanda, sudan of late, south africa under the british, latin american and south american terror campaigns, USSR, Indochina incl. the Khmer Rouge and US's campaigns of terror in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia, and so on. Both communist China and Stalinist Russia killed more people than the Nazis. I personally consider the genocide and dispossession of Native peoples throughout the world to be, cumulatatively, the greatest crime against humanity of the past millenium at least, although most of those were committed before the 20th).