Product Description

The world is a mess. It seems that every time you turn around, there's another problem:

Iran is developing nuclear capabilities. Public schools actually seem to be making our kids dumber. Charlie Sheen has a hit sitcom. Obesity is a national epidemic.

The divorce rates is rising faster than gas prices. Did you hear me--Charlie Sheen has a hit sitcom!



This just barely scratches the surface. Sadly, there's no shortage of problems what we need now are solutions. If only there was a man who could simplify things, cut through the rhetoric and fix everything? Then, if he was just able to put all of that insight into a book that people could buy...in a store and online say, for like $24.99? Man, that would be great...

Wait a minute!

"Inconvenient Book: The Real Story Behind The Biggest Problems In The World!" is that very book the one source for the Real Story behind the problems that seemed too big and complicated to solve (until now) plus their common sense solutions. Think of it as a Hints From Heloise that's less "getting red wine out of your carpet" and more "keeping illegal aliens out of your country"...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #609 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-20
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

From Publishers Weekly
In this appraisal of America's woes, conservative TV and talk-radio host Beck (The Real America) lays lighthearted siege to everything that makes the world worse. [P]olitical correctness is the biggest threat this nation faces today, he declares, as it makes us prey for Islamic fundamentalists, renders taboo the roots of our economic troubles (poor people are, in fact, lazy, he argues) and creates rampant distortion in the media. Beck goes paragraph for paragraph with global-warming alarmist Al Gore, merrily slaughtering the sacred cows of the environmentalist crowd. Not sated by the hide of the former vice president, he goes after everything and everyone from poverty to perverts, offering solutions to these and other problems (e.g., the key to success in the capitalist system is to believe in it). While often informative, as in his chapter on global warming, Beck is sometimes tedious, particularly when dealing with Islam and education (France is literally teetering on the edge, and our biggest ally, England, is about to be turned inside out as well). He's at his best when most absurd, and funniest when he's his own target (the father of four is little more than a flesh-and-bone jungle gym). This should make a good read for conservatives. (Nov.)
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Customer Reviews

No Holds Barred
"An Inconvenient Book" poses "Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems." Out of the chute, Beck takes on Global Warming; Marriage, Porn, Adultery, and Divorce; and Radical Islam. And he's just getting started. If you've listened to his show on the radio or TV, you know that Glenn has a no-holds-barred approach to society's denial of realities of the problems we face. Whether it's socialism, political correctness, media distortion, politics, or illegal immigration, Beck isn't afraid to say what no one else seems afraid to hear. Granted, much more can be said, and even if "An Inconvenient Book" only serves as a starting point to get more conversations going, we do need discourse on the real challenges we face.

You can only pack so much into a chapter about the world's problems, and Glenn is selective in what gets the point across without digressing from the purpose (too much). Each chapter ends with proposed solutions to each of the 22 problems. Some of the light chapters like parenting and aging end up more like a gag line, rather than any real solution. After all, what solutions are there to teenagers who want to emulate Paris and Britany? Or how do you counteract gravity after 40 and hair growing from all the places you don't want it?

If you don't want to think about the problems of society today, "An Inconvenient Book" might not be for you. But if you want to challenge the assumptions of socialism-at-any-cost, world government's override agenda as it relates to immigration, child molesters, or a score of topics, "An Inconvenient Book" is the kind of book you can get mad as hell about. Beck's solutions hardly ever propose implementing a government program. He looks at what we can do in our homes to face real challenges ahead.

Some valid points, but a pain to listen.
I listened to the audio version of this book. Glenn Beck read it himself.

He tries to make the listening experience interesting, he makes voices, changes tones, etc. But overall, it sounds like he is talking from a pedestal from which he can see all the right ways to do things in the world. Overall, he talks down to people.

I believe that he presented many things that are indeed good and valid observations, but I had to force myself to get through this audiobook because of his deaming delivery.

In trying to be honest about how ridiculous political correctness can be, he presents himself and the issues in a crass manner. Political correctness may be keeping us from solving very important issues, but we still live in societies, and a certain amount of civility and manners are expected.

Great read
I bought this for my husband who is a huge Glenn Beck fan. I ended up reading it too. Glenn speaks with a no holes barred truth. A lot of it is his life's experiences. He makes sense and if you have one ounce of Conservatism in your body, you will like it too.