Assault on the Venture

Rating:
Summary: Like an elementary school english class gone wrong
Review: If you need a laugh, or need to see how not to write a novel, this is your book. It reads like a very bad "B" movie out of Hollywood, but without the production values.

The characters are wooden at best, the plot is so transparent as to be figured out in the first few pages, and the so called "insider writing" that the author seems to claim with his alleged experience on the USS Enterprise is the biggest laugh of all.

Most novels expect you to suspend belief in order to read them. This novel expects you to suspend your intelligence too. We are expected to believe that National Security Council agents (???) are stupid enough to rent an apartment and not sweep it for eavesdropping equipment. We are expected to believe that the Navy would allow one of its nuclear carriers to blithely sail into known danger without stopping it. In short, we are expected to become imbeciles.

This book reads like some kind of locker-room sea story that gets told to ones friends, the more outrageous, the more ridiculous, the better.

Don't bother, unless as I said, you need a laugh.

Rating:
Summary: Like an elementary school english class gone wrong
Review: If you need a laugh, or need to see how not to write a novel, this is your book. It reads like a very bad "B" movie out of Hollywood, but without the production values.

The characters are wooden at best, the plot is so transparent as to be figured out in the first few pages, and the so called "insider writing" that the author seems to claim with his alleged experience on the USS Enterprise is the biggest laugh of all.

Most novels expect you to suspend belief in order to read them. This novel expects you to suspend your intelligence too. We are expected to believe that National Security Council agents (???) are stupid enough to rent an apartment and not sweep it for eavesdropping equipment. We are expected to believe that the Navy would allow one of its nuclear carriers to blithely sail into known danger without stopping it. In short, we are expected to become imbeciles.

This book reads like some kind of locker-room sea story that gets told to ones friends, the more outrageous, the more ridiculous, the better.

Don't bother, unless as I said, you need a laugh.