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Review title: I wanted to like it...
Product review: I really wanted to like this book. I have heard good things about the Author's other works, and as someone who majored in Political Science in college and is in the US Army, I figured it would be a good combination of my interests.The book was marred by multiple page length quotations from dry sources, attempting to (as far as I can tell) inject some sort of intellectual foundation into this work of fiction. The book suffered from way too much "telling" instead of "showing" and could have been about 100 pages shorter without losing any important content. If you cut out all the pull quotes, all the random asides, and the rest of the clutter it would be a really great book.I would give it one star, but since I liked it well enough to finish it, I guess it wasn't quite that bad.
