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Guilherme Borges guilhermeborgees — This was the first book I read about the FBI and the Mob and those kind of things, and it was definitely worth the long time to read it, because in a very weird way it is not the kind of book you finish in a couple of days, even with the fast moving plot, and interesting story line... In general it was a good, unique and interesting read... :)

Joe Branton _oseph_ranton — Another creatively-written book; entirely inside the head of a young woman in college who is either mentally unbalanced or severely embracing her poetic/literary leanings. The writing was refreshing, challenging, beautiful, and (be warned) stream-of-consciousness. A great balance with the storytelling of her senior year of college.

Justin Talbot justintalbot — Great book. I love Sarah Agnes!!

Eduardo Silveira edu_passad2266 — Yay! I won a book! Okay, before I get to the proper review, I have to post the following complaint to get it out of my system. The author all-too frequently uses "I" when he means "me", e.g., "Coach Petersen told Blake, Thelonius and I to get in the pickup truck" is wrong, wrong wrong. I cringe when I hear people talk like that and reading it is so much worse (because the author and editor should both know better). When in doubt, reduce the group to just the first person pronoun: you wouldn't say "Coach Petersen told I to get in the pickup truck". Brrr! Okay, that's out of the way... Time for the actual review! This is a social/political thriller touching various themes such as political correctness, racism, sexism and tolerance, but it's not exactly 1984. Satire is difficult to pull off without going overboard and burying your point. Farce has a far more subtle balance. Gary Wolf certainly did not hit me over the head with either the humor nor his viewpoint, allowing the story to flow. The book is amusing and fun, though I confess I thoroughly dislike sports so the football details tended to make my brain glaze over - but that's not his fault. So why did I want to read this book? For the political upheaval of the US in 2020. The premise pulled me in. But I wanted to like the book more than I actually did. There wasn't much background to how the world got so insanely PC that not wanting to have women in the NFL is evil and not wanting to promote how evil America is during the Superbowl half-time show is considered racism, though the concept is interesting. Political Correctness at its most extreme is funny, when it isn't bewilderingly sad, and Wolf captures many absurdities quite well, though fails to capitalize on many of them. (With mandates of 80% minority in every business - racial, immigrant, GLBTG - there's no exploration of what effects the enforced reduction of 40% of the population - white males - to 20% participation in the workplace has had on society. Nor is there any exploration of the effects of enforced ethnic quotas - apparently disadvantaged people suddenly have the education and expertise to perform in all areas. What about the focus of the PC attacks, the wealthy elite? What about the 5% who control nearly 60% of the money in this country? How are they faring under the new rules? The football players in the novel don't seem to be suffering.) Further, the story simply comes to a stop with no resolution except an offhand note to say that it was resolved through another American civil war. The point of the story was supposed to be in the growth of the protagonists... but the book falls shy of that goal. Jayesh, our protagonist and narrator, has Maureen McGovern's problem - torn between two lovers. I'd say he's distracted by two lovers, as he's only just met both of them and one he really doesn't know at all. He makes a firm choice between the two by the end of the book, but it's fairly anticlimactic, inspite of the gunfire. His girl friend Ashley makes the only real change in the course of events, but her initial rhetoric seems hollow to begin with, making her adoption of Jayesh's outlook somewhat mindless (although, within the context of the story, the "right" viewpoint). Though farce doesn't rely on verisimilitude to make its point, a little more development of these areas and others would have made this a gripping novel. As it stands, it's still an interesting, light read.