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Summary: I'm thinking about joining the NRA
Review: John wrote a great novel for his first time out. This book was sent to me by a person who doesn't own a weapon
The only weaponI own is a 22 pistol that belonged to my grandfather. But afterreading this book both of us are ready to join the NRA.
I doubt that either of us will buy any weapons because of this book. My friend is into flying and I am into kayaking, but both of us lived through the 60s and this book just reconfirms what we thought back then.
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Summary: Top of the REQUIRED READING LIST for any Patriot!
Review: For someone who's never read a book (I mean every single word) of more than maybe 300pages, this was a real task for me! It starts very slow giving a-l-o-t of history to get you educated so you'll be able to understand what's going on once the fireworks start. Ross's method of interlacing different main characters, back and forth, during the first three-quarters of the book was somewhat confusing to me. To the point I had a cribsheet so I could keep straight what details went with what character. But, alas once things began to roll I didn't need my cribsheet after all! Instead, I was riveted to the book and could not physically be awake and not reading it until I finished it! Very well done. Many, many of the stories he relates (in this work of fiction) I was able to recall as actual historical events occuring within the past decade or two...scary to say the least! Overall, a superb read. Now I too join the ranks of those awaiting a sequel which (when written by whomever) I fully expect to find in the Non-Fiction section..
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Summary: Loved it
Review: Read it, loan it to friends! One of the most gripping novels I've read. I literally could not put the book down once I started reading..
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Summary: A wish for a non-fictional sequel!!!
Review: Throughout "Unintended Consquences" I found myself saying things like "I remember when that happened!" and "I wonder if that is really did happen?" and "That sounds just like something he would say or would have said." With the many real life shooters mentioned and those who were thinly cloaked with fictional names it is very difficult to cleanly define the fact from the fiction in Mr. Ross' excellent novel. I do feel it might have been added to by having foot notes indicating the 'facts' mentioned. Other than that Mr. Ross did an wonderful job of research in every aspect of his first work. He truely should be applauded for his efforts. Every Congressman, Senator, and membor of the legal community should be sent a copy and it should be required reading in every history class in every school in this Nation. I am looking forward to a sequel, maybe in the non-fiction section
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Summary: A powerful and distrubing story of excess and anarachy
Review: Mr. Ross has produced a tension filled mixture of historical perspective and exploitive prediction. In the early chapters he has delivered a review of the importance and commonality of gun ownership established in the United States Constitution. As he progresses the clear attempt of government agencies to limit freedom and gain control of the populace develop logically if not with great literary skill. There is room to argue that he has exercised considerable prejudice in the relating of many of the events he chronicles, but they do not distract from the intent of his argument nor do they damage it. One could as easily argue that his excesses are minute compared to the outrageous misinterpretations of our constitution by those who would control the ownership of guns. My discomfort with the book developed slowly as Mr. Ross moved from the chronicling of government abuse to the imagining of the consequences of those abuses to which his title refers. The proposition that any man, whether of good will or ill, can deliberately set out to murder individuals without any sense of dread or remorse, is too much for me to swallow. This is a book which should be read. The eroding of freedom must not go unproclaimed, or responded to. But, the response dare not be in kind, less tyranny be converted to anarchy. Mr. Ross has failed to acknowledge the horror of a society in which the freedom to own guns for pleasure and self protection becomes one in which gun ownership and irresponsibility result in the ability to murder with impunity. The reader should take care that his anger towards the Jack Booted is not allowed to dictate a sense of pleasure over their demise.
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Summary: The Best Book You Will Read, Period!
Review: [First of all, I rate this book as an eleven, but there isn't an eleven on the rating chart.] If you are as frustrated as I am with the size and scope of federal, state, county, special district, and city governments, and are wondering just what you can do to bring things back "into perspective," then this book is for you. I don't even own a gun, hated the Army when I was in it, but this book gives you a completely different perspective about the importance of weapons in the history of the world. When you realize that the goal of every government is to disarm the populace so that it can impose restrictions on the populace for "everyone's good," you begin to understand the enormity of the problem. And as you peruse these reviews, don't believe even one word from the moron who claims that this book is anti-semetic, anti-woman, etc. It sounds as if this book steps on this individual's belief that big government is only here to "help" you. "Unintended Consequences" will be the best $28.95 that you have ever spent. Don't even hesitate to buy the book. Do it now! And, as most of the other reviewers have noted, buy more copies and give it to others for gifts. It is an amazing, compelling book, holding your interest from start to finish. And when you are done, wondering just what else you can read that fits along these lines, subscribe to "The Resister." I envy those of you are buying this book: you are about to embark upon a journey which will forever change the way you see the world. And you are guaranteed to lose a lot of sleep, trading the sleep for the pages of "Unintended Consequences." [Don Farrar, Walnut Creek, CA
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Summary: Exquisite.
Review: I couldn't put this book down
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Summary: Required reading for those who love America!!!
Review: This is the single best fictional work on gun control that I have ever read!!! John Ross captures the true frustration of those who love America and respect the Constitution as our framers wrote it. This is a must read for anyone who's ever considered the issue of personal freedom, the meaning of the Second Amendment, and should be required reading for any Political Science course. Absolutely fantastic!!!
On a side note, I found it interesting that the only person who so far, has posted a negative review of Mr. Ross's book, did so at the expense of really reading it. Another Richard Gaines in the making? Buy this book and decide!
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Summary: It kept me up all night...
Review: First, let me say that I know the publisher, but this is about as unbiased as I can make it - and I'd love to shake hands with the author... I was in Greg's office, and noticed several stacks of packages ready to be mailed, and asked what he was up to. He pointed out an unpackaged copy of the book, and I read the first couple of pages... Shortly thereafter some cash parted hands, and I ended up reading the darn thing until the wee hours...
My first love in literature is the mystery, and I have little patience for conspiracy thrillers, or the books on this general topic which have recently been produced by white supremacists, separatists, Christian fundamentalists, whatever... So I was a bit skeptical when I started it... By the end of the first few chapters, I was firmly hooked.
This isn't a hate-filled rant - Instead, it's almost a lament at what has happened with our overall culture, with an underlying hope that maybe, some day, some where, someone will do something to wrest our country back from the bureacracy which is both strangling the underlying culture and perverting the ideals upon which the system was founded. Give one to a friend who is a fence-sitter on the political scene, and see what they think. I hope this book eventually makes it to the mass-market distribution channels, despite the bias toward anything controversial. My views are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer
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Summary: A personally heart wrenching account of what we've lost
Review: While most reviewers have focused on this book from the standpoint of its damning (but highly accurate) indictment of growing Federal invasion of personal property and private behavior, I was personally struck by how closely the principal protagonist's upbringing mirrored my own childhood in the Fifties and Sixties. Raised as a Libertarian by a well read and insightful father, I have been long frustrated by my inability to express my greatest hopes and fears for the future of this country. John Ross has written eloquently and accurately for those of us seeking a voice who have no wish to "go quietly into that night." Not only have I followed the advice of other reviewers in buying copies for family and friends, I have decided to order multiple copies on a wholesale basis to sell at area gun shows at cost. Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" is said to have galvanized the American Colonists in their revolution against the British Crown. Unintended Consequences could do the same for those who want to see a SEVERELY reduced Federal government become a reality in their own lifetimes. For that reviewer from Missouri who found the book demeaning to women and Jews, I fear that his comments reflect a slave's fearful mentality of how his life might change in the wake of an uprising. With every incident I've read (well chronicled by Ross) of out-of-control Federal agencies, my blood pressure has risen and my determination to fight back effectively has grown. Whether the result of coldly calculating elitists at war with their countrymen or the thrashings of a bloated and uncoordinated Federal behemoth, when the Feds dress and act like Nazi Stormtroopers, they should be treated as such by the armed citizenry. Ross gives both voice and ammunition to those of us who are "Mad as Hell and won't take it any more!!" I recall Mark Twain's story of the Frenchman who accosted him on a train and offered $100 to have not read "Huckleberry Finn." When an astonished Twain asked why, the Frenchman replied- "So that I might have the pleasure of reading it fo the first time." I hope that this book becomes the underground hit of the Nineties and I eagerly await ANYTHING else that John Ross writes hereafter
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