Poor Excuse for Anything
921905
I will begin by saying that I'm proud to call "Gettysburg" my favorite movie. I'm also proud to say that this film has to be my least favorite. This film simply makes me want to vomit. It's the most pathetic excuse for a movie I've ever seen, not to mention a Civil War film. The only thing this movie had going for it war Robert Duvall's portrayal of Lee. It would have added merrit to "Gettysburg". Unfortunately, he was cast for this flop. I'm a Civil War historian, reenactor, collector, and fellow reenactors of mine, who were actually in the movie, also agree that this has to be the worst film ever made. It would be right at home in any high school auditorium stage or some "lost cause" fanatic's DVD collection.
2761270
I mostly read sci-fi and I have noticed that more than one author has turned out a lame novel late in their career. That is what happened here. It is really a pathetic excuse for a novel and not worthy of even a second year lit major. And the publisher stretches out the torture by using preposterously large print and you really cannot get even a short thought onto one line, it is annoying to attempt to read.

The plot and the plot devices are childish. The premise of some spontaneous worldwide animal revolt is idiotic and not well presented. The attempt at gratuitous sexuality is on a middle school level. Thong undies bought at a dollar store, right. This book is two grade levels below the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew.

Do not waste your time on this book.
2584037
This is the worst excuse of a "book" about Elvis I have ever encountered.  Most of the book consists of previously and often published photos.  I am a long time Elvis fan but I wish I had not wasted my money on this.  "Tish" should be ashamed..
2794574
This is why we can't have nice things.
If you liked the characters from the movie, well tough luck! Characterization is awful and stinks of cliche. Hey, did you like Furiosa? Well here she gets mad at the women for wanting to be free, even calls them ungrateful! You poor fools. Freedom from abuse, or freedom in general, is a luxury not a basic right!
Please, for the love of God don't buy this garbage. If you want GOOD FR prequel comics, check out Molly Ostertag's tumblr for her fan strips.
1865904
Good God - where to start? The best thing that can be said about this untalented bozo's "effort" is that it will soon be able to be purchased on the cheap thanks to all of the 13-year olds who will flood the used CD stores to unload their copies of this schlock once puberty has relinquished its iron grasp. Yes, folks, "Ace" (feel free to roll your eyes at this ridiculous, self-applied nickname) Young is 2008's Leif Garrett, only with a considerably shorter shelf-life.

With a voice reminiscent of the absolute worst of the boy band "stars", "Ace" flits his way through a bevy of sugary, bubblegum throwaways, beginning with the title track (sorry "Ace", little growls here and there do nothing to mask the "boy trapped in a man's body" syndrome) and continuing through to embarrassingly AWFUL ballads such as "Young Money" and the vomit-inducing "You Redeem Me". The CD's embarrassment factor  culminates with the Michael Jackson rip-off (and that is NOT a compliment), "Dirty Mind". If you've made it this far into the disc, you are either too young to drive, an invalid who is simply unable lunge for the stop button or a shut-in who hasn't listened to music since the days when Wayne Newton still sounded like a girl.

If you are looking for anything of any value whatsoever, avoid this crap like the plague. It is soulless and laughable and you really need to consider the consequences of showing up in a used CD store with a copy of this crap in your hand. If you aren't beaten with a tire iron for purchasing it in the first place, you'll surely be banned from the store. But good luck.
1709360
I rely on Amazon customer ratings and this book rated highly.  But it is a joke, as in pathetic!  It was clearly put together by someone whose second language might be English.  The recipes are disjointed and the times sometimes don't sync up with the total time listed under the name of the recipe. There are no pictures at all, and each page has two small recipes (6 to 8 lines) that combined fill about 2/3's of the page.  The bottom third of each page is just blank.  "Lamb Steak",  Vanilla Rolls, "Eggs in Holes", these are actual recipe titles.
Who is Steven D. Shaw?  I can't find a chef bio on him.  He must have gotten every friend he knows to rate it five stars.  I'm embarrased to admit I paid good money for this. It would be poor for a mid-school compositon class project.  Any of the other air fryer cookbooks have to be better.  See my other review.
316198
This was one of the most poorly generic pieces of trash that was ever thrown together for money. I am sorry i ever wasted my money.  I ususally want Michael Jackson stories to last forever, but I couldn't wait for this one to end. I will never buy something before reviews of it are posted. A complete RIPOFF :(
3863242
What an absolute load of crap. I'm sorry, but this book essentially blames women for everything that is wrong in a marriage. It instructs women to act like little children-- right down to stomping their feet and tossing their hair-- to "charm" their man. That behavior is supposed to be "fascinating." This is an instruction manual in how to be a complete doormat, pretend you know nothing and need a man to help you with everything, take the entire burden of the marriage on yourself while acting helpless, and infantalize your insensitive, clueless boor of a husband. Any man who wants a woman like this is a sad excuse for a man. I threw this book away.
3009279
This book offers more proof of just how much Paul hates the United States of America. He does this by stating, without having the courage to say so, that he will risk your life and those of ALL of your relatives to 'play nice' with foreign governments and terrorists that HATE us. This very sorry excuse for a book is a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. This may be the worst book ever written as it makes no sense and his 'research' is amateurish, inconclusive and/or just plain wrong. I can only hope he was a better doctor than he is an author. Again, the ramblings of a very angry and crazed madman.
138264
while i have to admit that i got some small bits of entertainment value out of this book, in general i can't think of any term other than 'lousy' to describe it.

long passages sound like a bad awards-ceremony speech, over and over listing the names of people he worked with that have no role in this story.

he basically 'brushes off' all of the human-rights violations by the nypd, always making excuses for cops that tortured or killed innocent victims.

of course the excuses stop at just about all of his former superiors, who were of course all against 'poor him' and therefore clueless, incompetent idiots...

the only reason i am giving it 2 stars and not 1 is because of some funny stories that really did make me laugh.  (crazy larry's "you got the aids, bitch" tops that list.)

just my $.02
2205540
The author admits the title has nothing to do with the story--it was a bad guess made while playing hangman that was so funny she wanted to use it for a title someday. The whole book is like that--halfhearted attempts to be funny strung together with no real story telling purpose.

The female lead has a potty mouth that is neither funny nor attractive. The old men who hang out with her grandfather only talk about sex, ALL THE TIME! Even when a rebellious teenage girl is present.

The poor little heroine doesn't want to have her heart broken again but at the end moves in with our hero who she has known for what, a few days? weeks? What a bunch of garbage.

Don't waste your time on this book--the only thing good about it is the title and you have already read that.
2360767
Just a list of random objects with no context. Some of these things inspire indifference at best. also it broke when my room mate threw it against a wall.
1884554
The description of this book sounded good. It also billed itself as funny. Well, I am 53% in to the book, and I have yet to find anything funny in it. I also fail to see how anyone as inept as the main character could solve a mystery unless sheer dumb luck steps in. And if that is what it takes, then count me out. I usually finish a book, but I just can't handle any more of this. If it even had one character I liked, I might be able to tough it out, but if I am more than half-way through and still don't like anyone, then it is time for me to move on to a better book. The only good thing about it was the price, it was free.
937578
The only reason I gave this book 2 stars was because it gives good ideas for prepping and gear purchases.  Aside from that, however, this book might as well have been written by an 11-year-old.  The plot was beyond flat and predictable.  It is hard to believe that Rawles was ever an Army Officer, because officers have college degrees, which usually entails a basic mastery of writing (which Rawles clearly does not have).

Here's a good formula to help you to understand what to expect from this book: Every character who is capable, intelligent, clean, prepared (basically anything good) just happens to be a christian (okay, there's one token Jew).  Every character who is evil or inept just happens to not be a christian.  I don't know if you can even call this propaganda, because it is just so obvious!  I mean, seriously, the first bad guys the book brings out are carrying communist handbooks, and guess what?  THEY'RE ALSO CANNIBALS!!

I should have been tipped off in the first chapter when the main character chooses Fox News as his information source.  This book basically takes everything that the types of people who watch Fox News are afraid of or hate (non-christians, liberals, communists, atheists, pot-smokers...) and villifies the hell out of it.  The thing that makes it so painful is the complete lack of subtlety or artistry.  It's kind of like when a really stupid person tries to insult you.  You don't really get offended, you just feel sorry for the person and the whole situation is just sort of embarrasing and pathetic.

The biggest problem I have with this horrible book (thank God I just got it from the library and didn't actually PAY for it) is that it paints this rosy picture that if you buy a bunch of name-brand gear, stock up on a bunch of food and gas, and accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, then you'll make it just fine through the approaching collapse.

Seriously, this book is just horrible.  It gave me a few ideas for prepping, but in all it is just terrible.  As an atheist, a realist, and someone with more than a third-grader's appreciation for storytelling, I must highly encourage that you DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!  If you want to get some gear ideas, get it from your local library but for the love of God (who does not exist) don't spend your hard-earned money on it!
3733689
Worst garbage that people pretended was a movie. My husband wanted to gouge his eyes out. There were children in the theatre and I was embarrassed that the parents allowed them to even sit through 4 minutes of it. The speech was out of sync with the period, it felt absolutely wrong. The swearing was uncalled for, and gratuitous. We left within ten minutes of viewing, and  we wanted our money back.
584453
Hard to find something good to say about this novel.

Every character in the story, especially the hero, is unlikable and dim-witted. If you like lazy racial and gender stereotyping then you're in luck because that seems to be how the author determines the behavior of every person featured in the book. The plot is boring and predictable, yet at the same time completely unbelievable and inane. How this book got so many five star ratings is a mystery to me, because I've seen infinitely better books get far less.

I could go on, but why belabor the point? One star only because I couldn't give it zero.
1893604
It was the most poorest excuses for a movie,  I've seen this year it was nothing more than an excuse to push forward Darwin's theories rather than taking and putting together a good strong plot