|  | Author: Glenn Beck
Publisher: Threshold Editions
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1ST
Pages: 192
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ISBN: 1439168571
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.3
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ASIN: 1439168571
Publication Date: June 16, 2009
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 He's Great on TV, but... October 30, 2009
Ricky L. Lax (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Glenn Beck is great on TV; he shouts, he scoffs, and he cries. But when he writes, when his words are stripped clean of the paint-by-numbers, manufactured emotion that television facilitates, one thing becomes clear: The man has absolutely nothing of consequence to say.
Beck uses every trick in the book to cover this up. He uses more exclamation points than a teenage girl with unlimited texts (e.g., "Open your eyes!" "They're not rescuing our country; they're destroying it!"), and more capital letters than a teenage boy writing his first quasi-communist manifesto (e.g., "HISTORY DEMANDS A CLEAR ANSWER.") But try as he might, Beck can't turn a paperback book into a flat-screen TV.
Here's a good example of the type of sentence that might fly on The Glenn Beck Program, but doesn't hold water in Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Governmen: "The result of preventing failure in a country rooted in freedom is a country that is no longer rooted in logic." That sentence would make my undergrad philosophy professor vomit in his mouth. Does Beck actually believe that preventing failure--in all cases, Glenn?--would somehow disengage America from the laws of Boolean logic? Of course not; to paraphrase a Mr. Show sketch, Glenn Beck doesn't understand what words mean. Or maybe he just doesn't care.
Beck's multiple attempts at cold reading are laughable. They're either comically general ("You have strong beliefs, but you also have an open mind and warm heart") or comically inaccurate ("You have a home, but with a loan you can afford ... You consistently hope that your kids don't notice you're bluffing as a parent most of the time"). Wrong on all accounts, Glenn. No home, no loan and no kids--and if I did have kids, I'd respect them for reading my bluffs.
 Great Book - Liked it October 28, 2009
Martin Olson (los angeles)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great book. In a world where i am continually dissapointed, depressed even, by our two party system it was invigorating to see that there may be other options available to those of us who are completely fed up with both republicans and democrats. I didnt agree with everything he said but i hope one doesnt expect that when they crack a book. It should make you think and this book does that.
Conservatives rock! October 28, 2009
Aisha Williams
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I think this book is genius! I loved it! I am passing it along to as many people as I can, because people need to start paying attention to what is happening to America! Glenn Beck is freakin' awesome! He breaks down all this complicated stuff and makes it simple. Get this book on cd and listen to it in your car; it will get ya fired up!
Classic Glenn Beck October 26, 2009
Daniel Delaware (Phx,Az)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If your a Glenn Beck listener than there is nothing to say, you know this is good. If your not, well it's things that you should know that your gonna with you didn't.Like the fact that our government is out for them selves. Them will never be where you are so why should they care about you. Even if they get voted out of office they will still never be where you are.You will also realize the direction that our founding fathers had in mind, and the dirrection that we have gone.
rarity October 26, 2009
Alexander R. Hicks (Sylmar, Calif.)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Common Sense - a good name when Tom Paine used it; a good name when used by Mr Beck. And a good name when Mr Chesterton professed it...uncommon though it may be. The herd, or the hive, is quite devoid of the commodity. Mr Paine was not; Mr Chesterton was not; Mr Beck is not. Read it. All of it. Twice.
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