Mindy Graham's Reviews > Revolution

Someone take this man's pen license away. I read this book after seeing an interview that intrigued me about his political leanings. Sadly, an entire book added nothing to the ten minute piece I had already seen. The book leaves the impression that Russell has heard a few people speak and sat there thinking, "yes, I totally get this. Not only do I get this but it will be so much better when -I- tell people about it" He then walked away with a surface understanding of a bunch of kind of related ideas which he has tried to stretch out into a novel. He leaps from one half thought out notion to another. Just when he should be getting down to specifics or suggesting ideas to improve the lot of the world he shares a barely related anecdote and moves on. Thrown in for a bit of fun are some conspiracy theories and the deep thought that science require as much faith as religion... Rinse and repeat for nine hours (I had the audiobook version). Ten points for passion. One for research. None for depth of understanding of any of the points he is trying to lay out.