The Bottom Line Book Review
This website provides book reviews that get to the 'Bottom Line' of it. After all,
you want to know if it's worth reading Before you buy it.
you want to know if it's worth reading Before you buy it.
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The Bottom Line:
Glen Gidseg
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Sometimes a book can tell you more about the author than the subject, this is one of them.
Gidseg, the author of The Devil Lives Among Us is ranting about the author's favorite thing
to hate--lawyers. The "story" starts with the author as a child and an event which is
apparently his parents being served papers by a lawyer that in some way causes the family
to lose all their wealth. From there we go to college where he wants to study anything that
will help him destroy lawyers and the story ends with the author as a doctor in a hospice
facility. This is a dreadful work that I find has no redeeming value as either a good written
work, or as a new and interesting story.
When I review a work, I read every chapter to ensure I get the full impact of the story and
the work; in this case, to be honest with you, I did not do that. After the first four chapters it
was just too, too, laborious to do so. I finished this one by skimming chapters and reading
the end. So to be perfectly honest, this story may have gotten better in the middle and I
missed it; but I don't think so.
The 'Bottom Line' ratings
Ease of reading: D
The Story: D
The ‘It Grabbed Me factor’: D
Overall C-rating: D
The Bottom Line: “If you hate lawyers and only if you can't find something else to read."
Gidseg, the author of The Devil Lives Among Us is ranting about the author's favorite thing
to hate--lawyers. The "story" starts with the author as a child and an event which is
apparently his parents being served papers by a lawyer that in some way causes the family
to lose all their wealth. From there we go to college where he wants to study anything that
will help him destroy lawyers and the story ends with the author as a doctor in a hospice
facility. This is a dreadful work that I find has no redeeming value as either a good written
work, or as a new and interesting story.
When I review a work, I read every chapter to ensure I get the full impact of the story and
the work; in this case, to be honest with you, I did not do that. After the first four chapters it
was just too, too, laborious to do so. I finished this one by skimming chapters and reading
the end. So to be perfectly honest, this story may have gotten better in the middle and I
missed it; but I don't think so.
The 'Bottom Line' ratings
Ease of reading: D
The Story: D
The ‘It Grabbed Me factor’: D
Overall C-rating: D
The Bottom Line: “If you hate lawyers and only if you can't find something else to read."
“Only if you hate lawyers"
The Devil Lives Among Us
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