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Title: Grass Roots by Stuart Woods, Barrett Whitener ISBN: 1-58788-150-0 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 8 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Shipping Time
Comment: I ordered 4 used books from private sellers at the same time and the book from A1Books, Grass Roots by Stuart Woods, took 2 weeks longer to receive than the other 3 books.
Rating: 1
Summary: You gotta be kidding!
Comment: Having an avowed addiction to the "bestseller wall" at the local audio book store, I haven't missed much of Stuart Woods' work. But I could have missed this one. I hate it when fiction writers begin to take themselves so seriously that they use their work to spout their own political and social beliefs, as if we the reader could care. It's o.k. to have some characters believing one way, and some another, that's just good characterization. But in this "Clintonesque Manifesto", all the bad guys are Republicans, or religious, or both, as if those traits alone are villainous. Don't get me wrong. I have no problem if all the bad guys are characterized as Republicans from the "right wing fringe", that's one thing. But if ABSOLUTELY ALL REPULICANS OR CONSERVATIVES, are characterized as right wing extremists who coddle hate groups, kill pro choicers, hate all ethnicities other than white Anglo-Saxon, and are card carrying members of Hillary Clinton's fantasy "Right Wing Conspiracy", then the book becomes less enjoyable, (unless of course you ARE Hillary Clinton), not to mention, more manipulative than a campaign speech.
Continuing his exaggerated characterisations,Woods portrays all of the good guys, the smart guys, the likable guys, including the novel's hero, our old friend, Stone Barrington, as Democrats who hate the death penalty, love abortion, find all people of faith to exhibit hypocrisy and religiosity, (like the bad hair TV evangelists who really are that way) and then purport themselves to be "Moderates". Astonishingly, Woods portrays Stone Barrington as saying that he doesn't know what "family values" are, and pens one of that character's own family to believe that private Christian schools were created by racist Christians who didn't want their children to have to go to school with black children. Preposterous, manipulative garbage.
The plot is weak and thin, having be done scores of times in bad TV movies and weekly dramas. The characters are nothing but engineered stereotypes conjured from a mist of bad research, self delusion and misrepresentation. Woods should go back and read his own prior works featuring Stone Barrington. He might realize he took a good character and superimposed him over a ridiculous one, in a haplessly contrived and much overdone storyline. Now that we know your politics Mr. Woods, go back to writing.....don't give up your day job by running for office through drivel like this.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Woods
Comment: This is a book for Stuart Woods' lovers as well as someone looking for a book about todays politics. Most of the characters were real with just enough exageration to keep them interesting. Woods books all read quick so they are great summertime books, pick them up on the beach, read them at the pool or even half drunk. It is very hard to write a book that a person half in the bag would like reading. Yea, I like to read sometimes when I have had a few, it really brings the characters to life, try it. Its a fun book. Read it!
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Title: Run Before the Wind by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0380705079 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Deep Lie by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0061044490 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Run by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0061013439 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Chiefs by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0380703475 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Palindrome by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0061099368 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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