Larry Beinhart
Autore di Il bibliotecario. La posta in gioco è la Casa Bianca
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di Larry Beinhart
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1947
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Woodstock, New York, USA
- Attività lavorative
- sometime ski instructor
political consultant
producer/director - commercials
co-host/creator of "In Your Face"
lecturer, Oxford
lecturer, University of Tartu, Estonia - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellow in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing at Wadham College, Oxford
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Edgar Award (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Utenti
- 1,032
- Popolarità
- #24,952
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 27
- ISBN
- 83
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 1
1. The hero is a librarian, so there's a lot of poetic musing over the beauty of libraries, democracy, freedom, etc.
2. The villains are Republicans who are hell bent on controlling the world by any means necessary. Some of them bear strong resemblances to real politicians, e.g. Dick Cheney and George W.
3. It was a page-turner AND well-written AND had some good laughs. That, friends, is a rare combination. There's even some good poetry here and there.
Now, a few warnings. There's some graphic sexual violence that disturbed me a little. And I did roll my eyes a few times at how unbelievably evil the Republicans were. But Beinhart found a great Adam Smith quote to rationalize it: "Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience." That is, if the bad guys were just greedy, there would be limits to what they'd do, but because they feel their cause is righteous, they try to win by any means necessary, even MURDER and SUBVERTING DEMOCRACY.
Obviously, if conspiracy theories annoy you, you probably won't like this book. But if you're looking for a wry political thriller that was clearly written by a Democrat, this will fit the bill.… (altro)