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Review title: This book is plodding and soporific.
Product review: Jeff Shaara slavishly attempted to copy his father's style. He managed to copy the form and not the substance. The prose is lifeless. Jeff needed an editor who would get him to write simple sentences in the active rather than the passive voice. He also needed an editor who would check Jeff's dates. A glaring mistake like Chapter 4 entitled "Lee, November" describes Lee's encounter with John Brown when Brown had been tried and convicted of murder and treason by October 31st. This book would neither be published nor noticed if Jeff had not been Michael Shaara's son. If Jeff has talent, it was not exhibited in Gods and Generals.
