March 2, 201511 yr ^ I didn't know that was a book. Movie came out a couple of years after the book. Fairly entertaining read; 2.75 stars out of 4.
March 2, 201511 yr Author Movie came out a couple of years after the book. Fairly entertaining read; 2.75 stars out of 4. Movie was okay, I guess.
March 2, 201511 yr Author First installment of Patterson's Michael Bennett series. Just started it & so far, so good.
March 3, 201511 yr Diving into a trio of JFK assasination books: Five Days In November JFK Has Been Shot A Cruel and Shocking Act I will never accept the fact that Oswald acted alone and enjoy reading all of the conspiracytheories. One of them is right. Try reading a few non-conspiracy books, such as Vincent Bugliosi' 1,600 page book "Reclaiming History", which took 20 years to research and write, and you might change your mind. IMO he proves without a shadow of doubt that Oswald acted alone when he assassinated President Kennedy. It was really just a simple crime of opportunity. Nothing complicated about it. JFK's motorcade happened to travel directly by a building where a very delusional and unstable man worked. He had already attempted to murder retired army General Edwin Walker earlier that spring (using the same rifle he killed Kennedy with) but failed when the shot ricocheted off the metal window seal of the general's house. So he had the mind set of an assassin, and was intent on making a name and political statement by killing someone important. Oswald simply took advantage of the moment and opportunity when he killed Kennedy. Nothing complicated about the crime. The conspiracy groups want to make it bigger than what it is because they can't accept the fact that a miserable nobody killed the most powerful man in the world. That kind of scenario just doesn't balance out on the scales of reality. So a conspiracy, or conspiracies, makes it balance out and make sense. It also makes the theorist lots of money through book revenues and lecture events. That's one reason we'll never see the conspiracies end. And it wouldn't matter how much imformation the US government or anyone else released to the conspiracy groups, they would still say, "Yes, they've given us all these files and opened up all their records, but what else are they hiding? They are still hiding more, they don't want us to know the truth." Lol. "They" is the group hiding everything. "They" is the masterminds of the crime of the century. But the conspiracy groups can't even decide on who is "They". Bugliosi goes into great detail about all the conspiracy theories: the military industrial complex, the mafia, Castro, the Russians, LBJ, etc, and proves that non of them have any merit. It's a long read but worth it. Another good book on the subject is "Case Closed" by Gerald Posner, who like Bugliosi is an attorney. He actually started out writing a conspiracy book on the assassination but after researching for a year or so saw that he had nothing, and changed his work to a non-conspiracy book.
March 6, 201511 yr ^ Have you ever read any of his stuff? First one. 2 stars out of 4. I really liked the female protagonist; the other characters were humdrum. Plot had some initial shock value, but in the end - an average thriller.
March 6, 201511 yr Author First one. 2 stars out of 4. I really liked the female protagonist; the other characters were humdrum. Plot had some initial shock value, but in the end - an average thriller. I've read a lot of his stuff. His earlier stuff is pretty solid, the one you read & some others are average, but his most recent novels have been crappy.
March 6, 201511 yr Author Liked that first book in the Michael Bennett series. Started the second one last night:
March 6, 201511 yr I've just started reading, "Cults, Conspiracies, & Secret Societies", by Arthur Goldwag. It states on the front and back covers, "....connects the dots and sets the record straight on a host of greedy gurus and murderous messiahs, erepuscular cabals and suspicious coincidences. Some topics are familiar---the Kennedy assassination, the Bilderberg group, the Peoples Temple and Heaven's Gate... The straight scoop on Freemasons, the Illuminati, Skull & Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more".
March 6, 201511 yr I've just started reading, "Cults, Conspiracies, & Secret Societies", by Arthur Goldwag. It states on the front and back covers, "....connects the dots and sets the record straight on a host of greedy gurus and murderous messiahs, erepuscular cabals and suspicious coincidences. Some topics are familiar---the Kennedy assassination, the Bilderberg group, the Peoples Temple and Heaven's Gate... The straight scoop on Freemasons, the Illuminati, Skull & Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more". Sounds like something I'd enjoy.
March 11, 201511 yr Movie was okay, I guess. No it wasn't. It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Still give my girlfriend grief over choosing that.
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