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Summary: Bad, bad, bad - probably more credit than it deserves
Review: I gave this book an honest shot when it was sent to me by a friend from Texas. That was last year, and I haven't finished it yet (through no deficiency in reading ability on my part!) It's just plain dull, boring, and uninteresting. Part of my interest in the book was nothing more than to see if everyone's harsh criticism was really justified, and it certainly was. "Shock Talk" has some possible interest as a campy parody of fundamentalist Christian stereotypes, or even as a "swan song" by Larson, who interjects fictional elements of the respect and popularity he had hoped to have during his failed career on Christian radio and television. To paraphrase Eric Idle of Monty Python, "This is not a book for reading. This is a book for laying down and avoiding." Larson is clearly attempting to establish credibility for his own bizarre niche in ultra-fundamentalist Christianity as a self-proclaimed expert in demon exorcism through a set of banal, predictable "just-so" situations which lose the reader's attention very quickly. Not worth the time; not worth even a fraction of retail price.
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Summary: We know he wrote this one...
Review: Of course, we're all familiar with the fact that Mr. Larson is well known for having nothing to do with the authorship of his own books, stealing most of his "Larson's Book of Cults" from Walter Martin and for not authoring his violent "Dead Air" novel and getting sued for it..... but this book HAS to be Bob's. I read it on a lark and it's a disaster from start to finish. Bob needs to look up the word "implausible", which would have been a better title for this grocery check-out masterpiece.
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Summary: We know he wrote this one...
Review: Of course, we're all familiar with the fact that Mr. Larson is well known for having nothing to do with the authorship of his own books, stealing most of his "Larson's Book of Cults" from Walter Martin and for not authoring his violent "Dead Air" novel and getting sued for it..... but this book HAS to be Bob's. I read it on a lark and it's a disaster from start to finish. Bob needs to look up the word "implausible", which would have been a better title for this grocery check-out masterpiece.
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Summary: Short. Mercifully Short.
Review: Scandal-plagued televangelist Bob Larson's latest novelette is remarkably short: short on plot, short on character development, short on suspense, and short on believability. In short, Larson makes J.K. Rowling read like J.R.R. Tolkien. Many of "Larson's" most notable works (e.g., Larson's Book of Cults and Dead Air), have been ghost-written by more capable individuals. But in the lamentable tradition of The Senator's Agenda, Larson appears to have at least laid his hands on this one, to the reader's detriment. But it has one saving grace: thanks to Grandma-friendly typesetting, this book is mercifully short. While I can't reveal spoilers, anyone who knows anything about Bob Larson will be expecting a made-for-TV "exorcism." And it happens faster than a sex scene in a cheesy porn movie -- with about as much suspense and believability. As usual, Larson saves his best fiction for the biography at the end of the book, attmepting to somehow conceal the fact that his once-ubiquitous talk radio show is only heard on about two dozen third-rate affiliates in media hotbeds like Bakersfield, CA and Edmonton, and he has to hold his "rallies" in Holiday Inns because no self-respecting church would have him. Bob's dead in Denver, defunct in Dallas, and silent in Seattle, and this work should put the final nail in the coffin of his literary career.
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Summary: Shock Talk: Superb from start ot finish
Review: This author brilliantly crafted a story that captivated my interest, from start to finish. I enjoy Mr. Larson's portrayal of how the good that become victimized by personal distress and suffering, inflicted by what must be explained as plain "evil," receive the healing they deserve. Shock Talk is a notable literary work, for both Christians and non-Christians alike.
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Summary: Shock Talk: Superb from start ot finish
Review: This author brilliantly crafted a story that captivated my interest, from start to finish. I enjoy Mr. Larson's portrayal of how the good that become victimized by personal distress and suffering, inflicted by what must be explained as plain "evil," receive the healing they deserve. Shock Talk is a notable literary work, for both Christians and non-Christians alike.
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Summary: A novel based on Biblical bases
Review: This book is excellent and protrays what so many people are going through. Everything Bob stands for is always backed up by scripture and through all of his excercisms, he gives the savior Jesus Christ all of the credit. If you haven't ask Jesus to come into your life, then you can do it today. The Bible says that Jesus is the only way, the truth, and the light, no one comes to the Father but by Him(Jesus). Ask Jesus into your life today. You won't be sorry. He's the only way to Heaven.
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Summary: Shlock talk
Review: This book is simply bad. The writting itself is poor and the absurd ideas the story is about are simply unbelivable and silly. Why would anybody buy this book or the ideas inside? This book is good only if you've been living on a biblical "base" all your life. Drivel
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