OH JOHN RINGO NO!  

Posted by Patrick

Many thanks to Ran for bringing our attention to this veritable gem!;-)

You MUST read this review.

I find it shocking that stuff like this gets published, but what the heck!?! You will laugh -- or cry!:p

Though the books seem incredibly bad, I'm tempted, in a sick sort of way, to read at least the first one. . .

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13 comments

earthgoat  

No. No really, don't. I swear, it's a bad idea!

7:30 AM
Alsem WISEMAN  

Just unbelievable!!!
"Oh no John Ringo no!" Indeed...

4:58 PM
Mike  

Oh my god..

7:03 PM
Shane  

Yikes

10:48 PM
Icarium  

you know, the fucked up thing is that i wanna read it now... in fact, im gonna go buy the 1st book tomorrow at the book shop.

11:13 PM
Anonymous  

If you must read it, baen has the first one(maybe more) online for free.

1:21 AM
Anonymous  

not the worse of john ringo's works. and seriously if its so bad its good. then its worth a read surely makes one appreciate the other books out there alot more

7:06 AM
Anonymous  

They're awful books. And maybe the most unabashedly racist SF being published today. Not just 'un-PC', mind you. Michael Richards, Don Imus David Duke level racist. Other than when I've lurked on white supremacist sites for my own sick amusement, I don't think I've ever read anybody who hates Arabs and Muslims so much.

10:48 AM
A P Mullaly  

Hey make sure to read the comments to the review. Ringo shows up and talks about where he was at when he wrote the books.

12:45 PM
Anonymous  

About racism - it's news to me that Muslims are a race.
The description of sex are not for everyone, but they are comparable to quite a few mainstream books published today

And if you want a real racist sf book, check out Araminta Station by J. Vance - that one shocked me when I read it for its unabashed racism - well it's in the good cause of environmental conservation and the Yips are so clearly inferior ...


Conrad

3:37 PM
Anonymous  

Good god.

If you must satisfy your morbid curiosity, please do it through a used book seller or the library.

2:11 PM
Anonymous  

Conrad - 'whites' and 'blacks' aren't biological 'races' either. They're big diverse groups of people lumped together by poor 19th c. science hat claimed there were only three types of people in the world (caucasoid, negroid, mongoloid). There's no such thing as 'race' if you ask a responsible biologist. It's about how societies treat groups of people. So no, Muslims aren't a race, but they sure as hell get *treated* like a race.

Much more to the point, I can't explain how much these books suck. I've made myself read two bc I'm sick like that. The quality of the writing is about on par with a 1988 straight-to-video Delta Force knockoff. Except not as funny.

10:30 AM
J. Hall  

I'm sorry but..that was the funniest thing I've read in days.

HE ADOPTS THEM. LIKE CATS.

Sorry. I just can't..stop...laughing.

6:19 PM

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