hombre_de_plata_flaco
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A mentally disturbed friend of mine bugged me until I read this awful tome. It has to be the worst book I have ever read in my life. I only finished it because I have never started a book and not finished reading it, otherwise, I would have stopped a quarter of the way through this piece of garbage and torn out all the pages and used them to line the bottom of the kitty litter pan.
I don't know if any of you are familiar with a book called The Turner Diaries, but this is allegedly the book that inspired Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Oklahoma City Federal Building back in 1995. All I could think about while reading Patriots was that I was reading the new version of Turner Diaries.
I'm not going to give any "Spoiler Warnings" because I won't have spoiled anything by revealing plot details of this book. Here is how the "plot" breaks down:
The US falls into complete anarchy after suffering a financial collapse and hyperinflation. A small group of ultra-religious gun nuts who have been training like a militia for years and preparing for an event like this retreat to their hideout/future apocalyptic kingdom stocked full of canned goods and weapons in Idaho. From there, they wait out the crisis while harassing any innocent passersby unlucky enough to encounter them.
There is also a subplot involving two brothers who are EXACTLY like two real-life militia survivalists named the Kehoe brothers. There is a part in the book that is eerily similar to the real life traffic stop of the Kehoe brothers that took place in Ohio that ended in a police shootout. Even some of the dialog in the book matches the video below, all the way down to the "I don't want to be violated" statements. (skip to the 7:30 mark for the shootout)
Anyway, after setting up their miniature fascist state in rural Idaho, our "heroes" go on to do battle with - wait for it ------ Communist Cannibals LMAO! These villains couldn't be plain old communists or cannibals - they had to be both. I'm surprised they weren't Devil Worshipers as well.
Later, the international bankers and the UN invade America, but all of the NWO soldiers realize how awesome these militia members are and switch sides, thereby building an "New America" that is (in the authors view) much more like the Founding Fathers intended....
The plot is awful. The characters are one-dimensional to the point that I couldn't even tell them apart. The book reads like a third grader bragging about all his G.I. Joe toys. It has to be the most poorly written and edited book that has hit the shelves in many, many, years.
I used to be proficient at spelling, but after reading this book my IQ was lowered to the point that I must now copy and paste from a Word document after performing spell check. The damage this book has wrought on my mind cannot be reversed, and I just wanted to warn other members of this forum so that they could avoid the voluntary lobotomy that is reading Patriots by James Wesley, Rawles - a man so cool he has to put a comma after his middle name.
You have been warned.
I don't know if any of you are familiar with a book called The Turner Diaries, but this is allegedly the book that inspired Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Oklahoma City Federal Building back in 1995. All I could think about while reading Patriots was that I was reading the new version of Turner Diaries.
I'm not going to give any "Spoiler Warnings" because I won't have spoiled anything by revealing plot details of this book. Here is how the "plot" breaks down:
The US falls into complete anarchy after suffering a financial collapse and hyperinflation. A small group of ultra-religious gun nuts who have been training like a militia for years and preparing for an event like this retreat to their hideout/future apocalyptic kingdom stocked full of canned goods and weapons in Idaho. From there, they wait out the crisis while harassing any innocent passersby unlucky enough to encounter them.
There is also a subplot involving two brothers who are EXACTLY like two real-life militia survivalists named the Kehoe brothers. There is a part in the book that is eerily similar to the real life traffic stop of the Kehoe brothers that took place in Ohio that ended in a police shootout. Even some of the dialog in the book matches the video below, all the way down to the "I don't want to be violated" statements. (skip to the 7:30 mark for the shootout)
Anyway, after setting up their miniature fascist state in rural Idaho, our "heroes" go on to do battle with - wait for it ------ Communist Cannibals LMAO! These villains couldn't be plain old communists or cannibals - they had to be both. I'm surprised they weren't Devil Worshipers as well.
Later, the international bankers and the UN invade America, but all of the NWO soldiers realize how awesome these militia members are and switch sides, thereby building an "New America" that is (in the authors view) much more like the Founding Fathers intended....
The plot is awful. The characters are one-dimensional to the point that I couldn't even tell them apart. The book reads like a third grader bragging about all his G.I. Joe toys. It has to be the most poorly written and edited book that has hit the shelves in many, many, years.
I used to be proficient at spelling, but after reading this book my IQ was lowered to the point that I must now copy and paste from a Word document after performing spell check. The damage this book has wrought on my mind cannot be reversed, and I just wanted to warn other members of this forum so that they could avoid the voluntary lobotomy that is reading Patriots by James Wesley, Rawles - a man so cool he has to put a comma after his middle name.
You have been warned.