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Terror! Potpourri!

An excellent article by Niall Ferguson, author of THE ASSENT OF MONEY, appeared in the November 28, 2009 issue of “NEWSWEEK”. The article was titled “An Empire At Risk”. What makes it an excellent article is simply the single-track-express of facts used to conjure fear—as in FEAR, as in TERROR.  According to the article, America, the “empire” of the title, is going bankrupt because of its huge debt-to-GNP ratio. For the year 2009, the debt was $1.6 trillion which is twice the amount the government collects in individual tax revenue. This forces the government to borrow even more money. A road to disaster? Really. . .

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There is Life After Death

By Ray Abraham Varghese

Reviewed by Lynard Barnes

You either believe there is some aspect of your spiritual self that survives the transition of the physical body from life to death, or you don't. You either believe that some part of your spiritual self has been on this earth before, that you are a “born again” spiritual essence, or you don't. There is no scientific proof. There is no scientific protocol to establish life after death, nor reincarnation. I believe in both the reality of life after death and in reincarnation and, to borrow a current self-serving solipsism, “god-willing”, there never will be such proof.
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The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

Reviewed by Lynard Barnes

Someone started a thought with, “If THE DANEROUS DAYS OF DANIEL X were a movie . . .”  We can only hope it doesn't come to that but given the infinite capacity for digital fabrications in the world, this book is bound to be a movie if for no other reason than it is a book-sort of. That it is aimed at “young readers”--whoever they are-makes DANIEL X an even greater mishap than if it were merely scrawled on a bathroom wall in a gas station somewhere: all 220 pages, divided into 92 chapters.

 
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The Black Hand 
by Chris Blatchford

Reviewed by Lynard Barnes

After answering the question of why societies lockup those deemed to have exhibited criminal behavior, the next question to answer is what rights these criminals have while imprisoned. In reading Chris Blatchord's THE BLACK HAND, the two questions crystallize into a wall. Very little of what Blatchord says gets beyond that wall. The inexhaustible list of names, the “politics”, the stabbings, even a person, Rene “Boxer” Enriquez, whose exploits Blatchord is chronicling-none of it penetrates the wall of two questions.

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The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown

Reviewed by Lynard Barnes
 

What?

No controversy?

A superhuman, three resurrections from the near-dead, and this despite the opening factoid in THE LOST SYMBOL that there is document in a CIA safe discussing “an ancient portal and an unknown location underground”.

THE LOST SYMBOL is 509 pages divided into 134 chapters and an Epilogue. There are irritations. There are annoyances.

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The Assassin

By Stephen Coonts

Reviewed by Lynard Barnes

All the typical ingredients of an international spy-adventure thriller: superhero, super villain, damsel in distress, civilization hangs in the balance. The good guys lose a few, but ultimately win. Stephen Coonts does not employ super-gadgets or typical super hero powers to move his story along. Instead the focus is on human foibles and hubris.
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