Posted by
Icarus on Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:34:54 PM
One of the best writers, who also happens to be a staunch conservative, working in the thriller genre has a new book out and it's driving the Left-wing media bonkers.
Andew Klavan's
Empire of Lies, is being savaged by Bruce DeSilva in this
Associated Press review.
"... what finally does this [novel] in are several long, tedious passages in
which Harrow [the main character] — serving as Klavan's surrogate — lectures the reader on
politics and current affairs."
OK, so the reviewer doesn't like conservative "diatribes" in his novels. No big deal. I don't like liberal diatribes in the novels I read. What puts this AP review over the top and into official Loony Left-wing La-La Land is the ad hominem attacks against Klavan.
"Klavan occupies the portion of the political spectrum commonly known as right-wing crackpot. Through Harrow he tells us, among other things,
that the entire media is a left-wing conspiracy, that taxes steal from
the rich to give to the poor, that America is in a holy war with Islam,
that the truth about darned near everything in the United States is
obscured by a blizzard of politically correct lies and that anyone who disagrees with him is deluded."
I would really like to know if DeSilva, in his long career as a book review, has
ever referred to a Liberal writer, who are Legion, as a "left-wing crackpot". According to Google, the answer to that question is a resounding
NO.