Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #889060 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

Embarrassing
It's sad in this day and age to see such an gross abuse of prose. Whatever one thinks of the author's controversial political stance, one thing that is undeniable is his poor command of the English language.

Jack Thompson writes as if English were a second language to him, from his ridiculous proclamations to a proclivity for grandstanding that would make Cotton Mather blush.

There are plenty of good books out their about violence and videogames. This isn't one of them.

Modern Hypocricy
How he can claim to be a crusader against the evils of the video-game and other forms of modern pop-media and claim to speak truths, yet not engage in any rational dialogue between himself and those people he so vehemently attacks is beyond me.

I respect a person's right to say what he wants to say, and I respect the way Mr. Thompson feels, however I cannot in good conscience give this book any higher than 1 star due to the fact that he claims what he says is full-truths and yet does not include any dissenting opinions of others in his book. Any good lawyer knows that for an argument to be complete it must include dissenting opinions and address those concerns in a respectable fashion. Otherwise all the claims you make is nothing more than a load of tripe, and is not worth hard earned money as you learn nothing from the reading.

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Well...
There's always that man you hear about, and because his name kept popping up on the news, I found this book used at [...] and decided to give it a read. In all honestly, I wasn't suprised when I didn't agree with anything Mr Thompson had to say. But after reading it, I do believe the man is entitled to his own opinions.

As far as the book itself, it's terribly one sided. It reads as if theres a debate, yet only pushes his point of view without mentioning anything else. So in that aspect, I was rather disappointed. I also felt that the book lacked serious content. It seemed as if most of the book he was rehashing the same material. In my opinion, if you have to rehash your material over and over to get people to listen to you, I really don't feel you should be writing a book.