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1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Loved this book Aug 24, 2007
This book was easy to read and I love the characters. It was funny and witty and kept me on the edge of my seat all through the book. I don't know why prairie Cosmos found this book to be that hard to read. Maybe if it had a whole lot of pictures he could have followed along without a problem. I could not put this book down and I was very impressed with Mr Daniel's writing. There is no rule on how many times you put a word in a paragraph. Maybe Prairie Cosmos should have stuck to the fourth grade reading where he belongs or the cannibalism and apocalyptic stuff that he tagged as books he likes. This person is a very sick individual I would not recomend any of his reviews. However after checking he only had one and this was it. The plot was great and the story line was fantastic I would recomend this book to anyone. I did not find the diaglogue to be phony and if Prairie had check alot of the things in this book are true news stories. The discussion related to gays and woman I found to be funny it did not insult my intelligence however that may be different if you are a fourth grader. I gave this book 5 stars and can't wait to read the next novel that Mr. Daniel produces. Uh Oh how many times did I use I in this paragraph now I'm in trouble ugh. J Glass
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Not all reviews are unbiased Aug 19, 2007
The Coverup, I think potential buyers should be aware that Jenny Daniel or J. Glass, who attacked my review, appears to be the author's daughter. In fact, the author's profile lists Jenny as his daughter and his grandchildren's surname as "Glass."
I would have let her comments pass had she not launched a scurrilous attack on my person including referring to me as a "very sick individual" I assure potential buyers that my critique is not the ramblings of a psychotic fourth grader, but a 65 year-old reader who loves science fiction as well as many other genres and has read enough to know the difference between a good book and a bad one; sadly this book is a bad one.
Jenny Daniel or J. Glass describes me as a "very sick individual" from "tags" based on my book purchases from amazon.com. Those purchases include such notable works of post-apocalyptic science fiction as The Road (currently a best-seller), The Stand , On the Beach , Earth Abides, The Postman, and Alas Babylon. The "cannibalistic" interests she notes, comes from such purchases as: World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide, Monster Island, I am Legend and the Plague of the Dead. Unfortunately, amazon.com "tags" me as interested in "cannibalistic, post apocalyptic fiction" from these purchases. I admit it. I own all of those books. I have read all of them. Some more than once, but if that makes me a "very sick individual," I am in the company of millions who have also purchased "cannibalistic, post-apocalyptic fiction"and loved it. Otherwise, these books would not have all been best-sellers; some even classics.
As far as grammar rules are concerned --- my fourth grade English teacher taught me there IS a limit to the number of times you can repeat a word in one paragraph and still be considered a literate, intelligible writer. That is the reason we have PRONOUNS and SYNONYMS. If you do not believe me, check any English grammar book on how to write a paragraph. It should explain the proper use of nouns and pronouns and antonyms and synonyms so writing does not become trite, amateurish, and boring.
Although my first review referred to a paragraph from page 180 and the use of the word "stairs", I should have told the reader to examine the first page. The author begins the book describing a character he refers to as an egg farmer --- but he calls him an egg farmer not once, not twice but three times in the same paragraph. While it is fitting to describe a man as an egg farmer three times if writing a children's storybook about an egg farmer; it is nothing more than poor writing in a science fiction novel. Perhaps I was too generous in suggesting the book was on the 7th or 8th grade level. Now that I think about it, developing and writing paragraphs using pronouns and synonyms are introduced in the third grade, not the fourth grade ---need I say more?
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Rivetting! Feb 25, 2007
I found myself on the edge of my seat reading this book and difficult to put down. This story definitely puts an unexpected twist to the well known 'Roswell UFO crash' story. Mr. Daniel puts his imagination to words in such a stylish and unique way, I can't wait to see what he conjures up next.
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