Der Furor

Rating:
Summary: Was This Book Edited?
Review: I will admit up front that I did not purchase this book or read a copy from a friend. My question is based upon the excerpt you can find from this book on the publisher's website at http://www.llumina.com/store/derfuror.htm.

Read the excerpt and you'll understand what I'm talking about. I laughed pretty hard at the poor sentence structure in some parts, and misuse of exclamation points in others (as in the excitement of opening the curtains!). There is also the case of the disappearing coffee cup, the husband's feet turning around and walking away from the wife (was the rest of him attached?), and something about a time long gone when the world still had heroes (was that sentence leading somewhere or closing a previous sentence?).

I don't know Robert Fahey and don't mean to pick on him, but come on, Robert! If you paid Llumina's start-up fees to have this book self-published, perhaps you also should have paid someone to edit the book as well. If you did, then you may want to demand your money back or have the book edited a second time. I'm not criticizng the story, just the lack of editing.


Rating:
Summary: This generation's 1984.
Review: Wow! Der Furor is this generation's 1984, yet Fahey's novel is even more frightening because the horrors he describes are already happening. One gets the feeling that the seeds for the nightmare scenario of the near future Fahey so vividly creates are already planted. That's what makes the story so scary. As I read it I kept asking myself, How can we keep this from happening?
But as disturbing as the story is, it manages to leave us with hope, while avoiding a pat, sentimental ending.
Everyone must read this book before Ashcroft has them all rounded up and burned.