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Review title: Stupid Beyond Reckoning
Product review: If bad writing were a crime, Richard Matheson would be on death row.As it is, I feel like I've done hard time by reading this book.Mr. Matheson uses the protagonist in this book as a vehicle to float every left-leaning, New Age theory imaginable: he's pro-reincarnation, anti-gun, anti-violence, pro-animal rights. And the results are almost laughably absurd. After the main character has been sodomized and beaten and is fleeing a psycopath in the forest, our hero stops his escape to rescue a cougar that has been trapped by a fallen log. Why not brew a little latte' while you're at it? And after the psychopath rapes the protagonist's wife as a prelude to murdering the hero and the hero gains the upper hand, the protagonist refuses to kill the pyschopath "because that would make him like the psychopath." Huh?It's this kind of muddleheaded thinking that the reader must endure thoughout the book. Save your money and your time. Look elsewhere.
