Darlena W. (darlena42) reviewed on 3/11/2011 + 5 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I know I shouldn't rate a book that I didn't finish, but I just couldn't do it. I am an environmentalist, and I do believe that overpopulation will be bad for the people and the wildlife, but this book is just too extremist. The "dialog" is completely unnecessary, because the conversation is mostly Ishmael lecturing and our main character saying "yes" "I suppose" "go on" "right" which adds absolutely nothing to the story. It also takes the author a quarter of the book to get to his first point which is "man believes that the gods created the universe for humans" and another quarter of the book to get to his second point which is "We living by trial-and-error, and we're plummeting towards destruction, but we think it's okay, because we haven't destroyed ourselves yet." At that point, I'm done with the book. It's over the top, and poorly written and I don't care how it ends. This book convinced some crazy guy to take the Discovery Channel hostage because they weren't doing enough to curb population growth, so I wanted to at least check it out.

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