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Title: Franchise Literature, Ulysses: The Prequel
Review: I purchased this book believing it to be authored by the man who wrote the great "Killer Angels" and neeless to say I was very disappointed. I think "Gone..." is an example of what I like to call "franchise thinking": you take a good idea and through copying it or applying it to other things you drain the life out of it. Franchise thinking prevents any change or attempts at something new; why bother? We found a formula that works, lets beat it to death (Killer Angels WWII, anyone?) . While not exactly horrible, the book is offfensive because Shaara Jr is cranking out nepotistic retreads of his father's great book. Unfortunately, I'm sure there are enough middle-brow military buffs out there to keep him in business.
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