Posted on 01/13/2010 9:51:56 AM PST by Rummyfan
Just finished Stephen Hunter's lastest Bob Lee Swagger novel, I, SNIPER, and it is excellent. I highly recommend it to all Freepers and all Hunter fans. One excerpt that sums up the MSM these days:
The narrative is the set of assumptions the press believes in, possibly without even knowing that it believes in them.... it's a set of casual, nonrigorous assumptions about a reality they've never really experienced that's arranged in such a way as to reinforce their best and most ideal presumptions about themselves and their importance to the system and the way they've chosen to live their lives. It's a way of arranging things a certain way that they all believe in without ever really addressing carefully. It permeates their whole culture.
They know for example that Bush is a moron and Obama a saint. They know communism was a phony threat cooked up by right-wing cranks to leverage power to the executive. They know Saddam didn't have any weapons of mass destruction, the response to Katrin f***ed up, that torture never works.... Cheney's a devil, Biden's a genius. Soft power good, hard power bad. Forgiveness excellent, punishment counterproductive, capital punishment a sin.
Now that Clancy isn’t writing any more, I’ve been looking for an intriguing series. This may be it.
It’s a fantastic book! One of the best in the “Bob Lee Swagger” series.
Have you read any Vince Flynn books?
His hero is Mitch Rapp, a Jack Bauer on steroids. Terrific reading.
I’ll bet Vince’s portrayal of the weasels in Washington is spot on.
Yes, read one or two Vince Flynn’s books. Not bad, but it didn’t hook me like Clancy did.
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