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Summary: His Jerusalem is not real, just a grotesque fantasy
Review: For the last 30 years I have lived in Israel, through good and tough times, and I could not find any similarity between the real Jerusalem, the real Israel, the real Gaza, and the sites which have the same names in Stone's book. It is a grotesque fantasy written with a Hollywood deal in mind. Waste of time
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Summary: This book gave me a migraine!
Review: Who ever led this man to believe he can write! As boorish and contrived a novel as I've ever read.
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Summary: Written by a wordsmith who likes to read his own words!!
Review: A complex, multi-dimensional read that I could not wait to put down. I struggled to pick it up to get through it. At any page I could walk away from it, I kept reading the reviews on the back cover and opening pages to see if I was reading the same book. The writing bogged down enough with intricate detail that did not seem related. The characters came in and out of different scenes almost as though they were not connected. I struggled to complete the book only to be disappointed by an ending that seemed to be retro-fitted to the story with yet another twist. It may be that I have little interest in the geography of that region but the book did little to enhance its image. It seems like a dark, fanatical, intense place to visit or live, always on the edge. A disappointing book for all the positive reviews.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: Characters you don't care about. Zealots who aren't very zealous. Unending and poorly written dialogue. I made myself finish the book just to make sure I wouldn't miss something - mistake. There was nothing to miss. Who bribed the reviewers who are quoted on the inside cover?Total dreckkkkk.
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Summary: It Was the Best of Books, It Was The Worst of Books
Review: I agree with virtually every review in here. Its brilliantly conceived. There are moments of brilliant writing. But every flaw described in these reviews is accurate, and makes it a disappointment,....not just because of what it is, but becaue of what it could have been.
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Summary: Must love the sound of his own voice
Review: This book is a slow overblown waste of pulp
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Summary: Horrendously awful
Review: A blot on the english language. Stone's inadequacies explicated at length
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Summary: Gobbledygook
Review: I couldn't finish this. Slow, dull, overwritten and tedious. For a far better novel in this genre, read Rustad's THE TRUIMPH AND THE GLORY, or even better, Kleier's THE LAST DAY--one of hte finest suspense thrillers ever. But Stone was a bore.
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Summary: dribbling bits of irrelevancy
Review: i was compelled to finish this pile of words simply because the man signed my copy at a book fair. i've never been to israel but Stone's depiction seemed fanciful. it read awkwardly at times and i think his efforts to paint the city as diverse were much too pretentious. it's like he threw darts at an atlas and decided that a character would be from the landing of that dart. nevertheless i respect his thorough research and apparant command of colloquialistic theology. borderline narrative at best.
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Summary: Unbelievable plot and unlikable characters!
Review: Why read a book with characters you don't like and a plot that is so absurd that you feel silly actually reading it? When I start a book, I like to finish it, but this one could be put down at any time and you haven't missed a thing. Definitely NOT worth the hype that preceded it. In fact, it is one of the worst books I have read in a long while. Shame on you, Robert Stone!
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