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Summary: A Must Read!
Review: This book should be required reading in any school. Once I picked it up I could NOT put it down. The characterization is incredible, and the story line is fascinating. I rank it right up there with 1984 & Animal Farm. Every member of the "Gun Culture" should read it to realize the scope of happenings in our country today, and every person not a member of the "Gun Culture" should read it to realize the full impact of legislation on our individual lives.
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Summary: The Decayed Tooth Of The Second Amendment
Review: This book amply prooves that we are not free. John Ross clearly shows that the 'National Firearms Act' and the 'Gun Control Act' destroyed the constitutional right to bear arms, not just hunting arms but arms that are military equivalent. The average citizen formerly had the right to bear the same arms that are issued in standing armies for the purpose of resisting domestic tyrants and foreign invaders. This right is found in an antiquated, unpopular and unfamiliar document called the 'Bill of Rights'. For those of you who think that there are no domestic tyrants, stop paying taxes on the property you think you own, but are really only renting from the government. The author documents how unchecked tyranny has disarmed and subdued our populace and postulates an unintended consequence. The right to bear arms is the only tooth that guards the tongue of free speech, however decayed and dulled it has become by the sugarpill doled out by the cryptocracy on a blind uneducated nation of sheople wanting and waiting to swallow. I couldn't put it down and have subsequently loaned it to friends and relatives as a must read. 'Unintended Consequences' ranks in my mind as one of the five greatest books I have ever read.
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Summary: Worth reading despite the trashy sub-plot
Review: A ham-fisted and sexually perverse approach to a vitally important subject. A good editor might have made this a classic. This book's worth reading, but it's not a classic nor is it second only to the Bible. Ignore the hype and you'll find the substance.
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Summary: Justice For All
Review: This book will nail you to your seat and have you shouting for joy as JUSTICE (as described by Mr. Ross) is meted out to arrogant, corrupt government agents in delicious, explosive detail. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES will not dissapoint!
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Summary: Riveting, Fascinating and Educational
Review: My hat is off to John Ross for a story that kept me glued to this book for days. Not only is it so entertaining that you can't put it down, it's also very educational. Ross's story is intertwined with the history of the American gun culture and the gradual erosion of our constitutional rights under our increasingly socialistic government. This book has reawakened the interest in the shooting sports that I enjoyed so much in my youth. It is a must read for those who want a picture of how the puzzle of our demise is put together. I must warn you though, it may make you mad as hell.
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Summary: I give it my "Boston T. Party Seal of Approval"!
Review: This is the most important and influential novel for the Freedom Movement (and gunowners in particular) since "Atlas Shrugged." If you intellectually support the 2nd Amendment and RKBA, but do not own a gun; if you own a gun, but not a battle rifle; if you own a battle rifle, but don't envision the nerve to ever use it--then this book is a "must." UC is also great medicine to knock a stubborn liberal into reality shock! Warning! It contains several very explicit and graphic sexual scenes (which were, in my view, unnecessary and detracted from the rest of the book), so preview it before you give it to young people or the elderly. Other than that, I heartily recommend UC!
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Summary: Intended Consequence: Preservation of Liberty
Review: This is probably the most important novel written about the subject of liberty in the last part of the twentieth century. I had never heard of this novel but came across it when checking the new listing for my own book of similar subject matter. I am very glad I came across this book. It is the book that anyone concerned with its subject could wish he/she had written. It has been compared to Ayn Rand's classic novel on the same subject, ATLAS SHRUGGED, and the comparison is warranted. Both novels deal with the attempt of government to dominate and with a generally apathetic and, by default, willing public that allows its freedoms and creative enthusiasm to be drained slowly away. Both postulate ways in which a defiant, passionate minority might respond. There are also differences, of course. Rand's novel dealt with the erosion of freedom that comes from confiscatory taxation and government sanctioned socialism. Rand was an immigrant from Russia, and she despised socialism. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES deals primarily with incremental infringements on the second amendment and the threats this poses on all other basic freedoms that Americans presumably enjoy, so far, because of the force conveyed to the citizenry inherent in that segment of our constitution. Though neither novel has an actual narrator, ATLAS SHRUGGED was written from the vantagepoint of a sophisticated, somewhat aloof (and even workaholic) New York woman. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES is from the perspective of a man from the Midwest, with a narration style that is more informally conversational or "down home." Some reviewers have challenged the literary value of this story, whatever that means. A novel is important to an individual reader for a variety of possible reasons. Some people have cherished the stories of Hemingway (as I do), but for those who demand a vibrant plot, his stories would have little worth as they are predominately about mood. (I am sure there are those who would challenge this assertion.) Though many rave about what a great novel is ATLAS SHRUGGED (as I do), it is endlessly redundant and at times maddening to wade through to finally get to the point. Yet that was Rand's style; we have to put up with it (if that is how one might put it) to mine the gems. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES is much more important for its subject matter than its mood. Though its story is still an engrossing one for those who care about the concepts of that subject matter. Another criticism of this novel has been that it at times resorts to gratuitous descriptions of sexual events that do not contribute to the story. I disagree. This is a novel for adults who understand, among other things, that there is violence in society, and sometimes it is random and senseless. The assaults depicted against a couple of the main characters, and their responses to them, are consistent with feasible, even probable, psychological adaptations that people might assume from such experiences. My work two decades ago in an inner-city Chicago hospital where I had significant exposure to the emergency room and some overlap with people from the social services department leads me to find these segments quite believable, and one more example of an "unintended consequence" of events that take place in the story. Though UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES is deliberately written to be easy to read it is brilliant in its historical scholarship and in its analysis of the precariousness of our present condition of personal freedom. It offers a stark example of where we may be headed as far as our liberty is concerned. It is a worthy antidote to the leftist political slant predominantly presented in "mainstream" newspapers and television news, where the philosophical outlook seems to be that big government knows what is best for all of us. Time alone will tell if UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES really becomes a classic in the manner of ATLAS SHRUGGED. But given that when Ayn Rand's novel appeared in 1958 it was with all the fanfare that publishing giant Random House could muster, and that John Ross' book is spreading solely through the grapevine (read the publisher's note above), and still is gaining momentum, it appears to be well on its way. It is an important book, and thoughts therein deserve serious consideration by those who seriously value liberty.
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Summary: Unintended Consequences
Review: This is an excellent book. It is captivating, compelling and frightful at the same time. I would highly recommend this book to anyone that is at all interested in the Second Amendment. As well, I wish that this book could be made mandatory reading for all of our elected officials, regardless of their views about gun ownership.
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Summary: This is a book you should read
Review: This is, I think, my fifth try at getting a positive review of this book published here. I'll try not to telegraph the plot or anger anyone with my opinions, because I do like the book and I'd like to encourage others to read it. Unintended Consequences is the magnum opus of the struggle against gun control in the United States by the so-called "gun culture." The book is rich in detail, and the history of the encroachment on our Second Amendment freedom by the forces of socialism is laid out case by case, incident by incident, outrage by outrage. The author, John Ross, is an investment broker and financial advisor in St. Louis, Missouri. He also has a background in the subject, as he is a certified personal protection instructor and has authored a book which empirically assesses the effect of concealed-carry laws in the United States, Self-Defense Laws and Violent Crime Rates in the United States. This is his first novel. The book is fiction but it encompasses a great deal of factual matter, including several verbatim documents and some photographs. If you are a part of the "gun culture," (thus characterized by those who are opposed to private ownership of firearms) this is a book you should read. That is a vast understatement. In some of my rejected reviews, I have been much more explicit. I wish they could have been published. If there were one book that those who favor gun control would like to see banned, this is that book. Joseph Pierre
author, Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
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Summary: I'm glad I'm not a BATF agent.
Review: Although I think the story would have been just as exciting, just as "real life", without some of the more sordid sexual activity, I still think the story overall, is great. I read fiction books primarily for entertainment rather than messages, but I got both in this one. It's scarey how much of this story is actual history, but it still threads it's way to the conclusion. It restores hope to those of us who read this story and think - "If it could only happen this way....."
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