Assured Response

Rating:
Summary: Beyond Bad
Review: A trainwreck of a story, great idea, but the execution is awful... Also the author seems to be doing his best to make the U.S military look like a bunch of incompetents and amateurs. I read all of Mr Webers other stories I won't read another

Rating:
Summary: Assured Response
Review: I enjoyed this book, hard to put it down. I've read all of Joe Webers books, this one is some of his best work. The story moves along fast and he doesn't spend over amount of time filling pages with character history. I put him in the same class as, Cliver Cussler, Dale Brown and Stephen Coonts

Rating:
Summary: Laugh out loud bad
Review: I needed something to read on a trip and thought an action thriller would be just the thing. Um, this has to be about the worst book I ever read. The one plus is I laughed a lot. I'm guessing this guy was never actually in the military, because he doesn't have a clue what it is really like.

Rating:
Summary: Malfunction
Review: Joe Weber has created one of the worst novels ever written. He provides an interesting set of of attack recommendations for real terroists and bases terrorist successes on malfunction after malfunction by U. S. Services. His dynamic duo of top secret agents spend most of their time and government money rating hotel service and breaking expensive equipment. A real waste of time - a "malfunction."

Rating:
Summary: Assuredly NOT an "Assured Repsonse"
Review: This is perhaps the worst book I've ever read and I'm a voracious reader who is always reading something. "Assured Response" deserves ZERO out of five stars, but since that's not an option, I'll say this. For anyone interested in reading this book, let alone in buying it, I strongly recommend that the buyer beware. You should seriously consider leaving this title on the shelf and going back to pick up books from proven authors such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, etc.

This book starts off with a somewhat plausible theme: activities of terrorists in the near future. From there it goes downhill. As the reader delves deeper into "Assured Response", however, the reader encounters scenario after scenario that defies logical conclusions, common sense, and all reasonable plausibility. Amazon.com policy forbids that I go into details that give away the plot, so I won't, but the overall effect that I came away with after reading "Assured Response" was that Joe Weber wasn't imaginative enough to overcome the logical hurdles that arose while writing this book. Instead of working out the "bugs," he allowed the flow of the plot to ignore the plausiblity and logic of what was being depicted. To advance the flow of his plot, he routinely depicted members of the military and government as being dullards and incompetent. Situations that would NEVER happen DO happen in his book.

For an author who purports to be a former Marine carrier aviator, this book is an insult to any reader who wears an American uniform. Joe Weber uses his book to be as far-fetched and removed from plausible possibility as his imagination will allow--and then some.

America can be thankful that the American government and American military forces are not the dullards, idiots, and incompetents that Joe Weber portrayed them to be in "Assured Response."

"Assured Response" should be considered to be more science-fiction than technothriller.

Rating:
Summary: Assuredly NOT an "Assured Repsonse"
Review: This is perhaps the worst book I've ever read and I'm a voracious reader who is always reading something. "Assured Response" deserves ZERO out of five stars, but since that's not an option, I'll say this. For anyone interested in reading this book, let alone in buying it, I strongly recommend that the buyer beware. You should seriously consider leaving this title on the shelf and going back to pick up books from proven authors such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, etc.

This book starts off with a somewhat plausible theme: activities of terrorists in the near future. From there it goes downhill. As the reader delves deeper into "Assured Response", however, the reader encounters scenario after scenario that defies logical conclusions, common sense, and all reasonable plausibility. Amazon.com policy forbids that I go into details that give away the plot, so I won't, but the overall effect that I came away with after reading "Assured Response" was that Joe Weber wasn't imaginative enough to overcome the logical hurdles that arose while writing this book. Instead of working out the "bugs," he allowed the flow of the plot to ignore the plausiblity and logic of what was being depicted. To advance the flow of his plot, he routinely depicted members of the military and government as being dullards and incompetent. Situations that would NEVER happen DO happen in his book.

For an author who purports to be a former Marine carrier aviator, this book is an insult to any reader who wears an American uniform. Joe Weber uses his book to be as far-fetched and removed from plausible possibility as his imagination will allow--and then some.

America can be thankful that the American government and American military forces are not the dullards, idiots, and incompetents that Joe Weber portrayed them to be in "Assured Response."

"Assured Response" should be considered to be more science-fiction than technothriller.

Rating:
Summary: Affleck and J-Lo meet Tom Clancy
Review: What happened to Joe Weber? This is the second consecutive farce of a book from him. I had forgotten how much I hated the last one - I never would have bought this one if I had remembered.

For some reason Weber has moved from "classic" techno-thrillers to a mushy, "Nick and Nora" couple who solve the problems of the world in between gourmet meals and great wines. There is no suspense, because there is no suspension of disbelief. I couldn't stand it after ten pages.

The Job Weber corporation needs to ditch its current ghost writer and go back to whoever it wrote the original Joe Weber books that first put him on the map on the recommended list. This current work is garbage and the author should be ashamed.