This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Posers would love it; people with low self esteem; wannabee police officers… douchebags in general.
What was most disappointing about Glen Tate’s story?
I really enjoyed the first book even though the writing itself is very amateurish. It was still intriguing and the second book came along and was okay but not nearly as good. Then I started the third book and wow. It hit me that the author WANTS a collapse to happen! Not because he’s evil or hates the government. No, he wants a collapse to happen so he can live some childish dream about becoming a post apocalyptic special forces superhero. This hit me after about the fourth time the author talked about how “cool” and “badass” he and his team looked in their “511’s” and “romeo boots” and how everyone was so floored about how awesome they looked and yada yada yada. I mean I know the author has said this was a semi-autobiography so after the main character spent an entire chapter or two describing how everyone was in absolute awe who saw him and his ‘team’ of militarized insurance salesman, store clerks, and lawyers dressed up like ‘Military Contractors’ (he uses that term no less than 30 times to describe how he looks) I immediately discounted the whole series. I pictured a middle aged white fat man wearing all the clothes his main character sports and with an AR-15 slung around his back and sitting in view of a large mirror all while writing the novel (this would be the author).It was way too transparent and it makes real preppers look like idiots. I quit the series after this book. The author is a poser that has a need to be a hero and thinks the apocalypse will give him license to play special forces soldier which is why his assessment of the ‘coming partial collapse’, true or not, loses credibility.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator added to the dismal writing. He sounds like an 80 year old man trying to use the slang and jargon of a twenty-something. The guy sounds like he should be narrating WW1 documentaries or something.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
The author made everyone who he disagreed with politically into some kind of cartoon character. I’m a libertarian and I have no love of the liberal point of view but the way the author decided to portray the liberals was so child like. It was like taking every cliche of the left and multiplying by ten and making all of them like that. It takes brain power to flesh out realistic antagonistic characters in a novel. All it takes to do what this author did with his antagonists is laziness. The author shows his lack of depth by doing this.
Any additional comments?
The author uses a pseudonym presumably because he works closely with government workers as he states in the intro in book 1 and doesn’t want to reveal himself or his opinions to them. There is something about that fact that makes me think he is a coward and seeks to throw a jab at government workers (which he might well be one) through his novel. It just doesn’t sit right with me. Man up “Greg”.