Title: Review of Strategic Denial and Deception Review: This is a mediocre book. First, it resembles a handbook, teaching practitioners how to conduct D&D; (this acronym really exists). Second, many authors are in the "neo-con" school of intelligence officers, along with Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith.It's somewhat deceiving for a book to represent D&D; when the Reagan-era "Team B" school from which they graduated has been discredited. Is the review positive or negative?
Negative

Title: Always Enjoyable, Although Not My Favorite in the Series Review: Charlaine Harris returns to the world of the dead courtesy of the ever charming Sookie Sackhouse. Once again, Sukie is up to her elbows in vampires, werewolves, and shapeshifters who'd like to get to know her better, and a few more that would like to see her dead. Although still quite fun to read, I found myself missing Vampire Eric, whose involvement in the book is nearly a cameo. Can't wait to see the HBO series that's being developed around the books. Is the review positive or negative?
Positive

Title: Very uneven, slow paced start of the series. Review: "The Invaders Plan" is the first of ten books in Hubbard's "Mission Earth" series. The books were not written separately, but as one long novel and divided into ten parts for publishing. And it shows. The plot moves very slowly, and the entire book is just really a very long buildup. They don't leave for Earth until on the very last page, so don't expect there to be any space adventures of invasion of Earth. I guess that will be in the sequels.The book does have its good parts, and occasional humor, but the pace is very uneven. At times, there are several pages of descriptions of details that are completely irrelevant.If you're just looking for a science fiction novel, look elsewhere. The book does not work well on its own. You must be prepared to read the whole series. If it will be worthwhile reading all ~4000 pages, I don't know yet. Is the review positive or negative?
