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exciting military-political science fiction, January 31, 2012
By Harriet KlausnerThis review is from: Mass Effect: Deception (Mass Market Paperback)
The Reapers starships have entered the galaxy where earthlings have joined other alien sentient races mostly in harmony (see Drew Karpyshyn entries - Retribution; Ascension; and Revelation). As they have done for every fifty millennia these bellicose outsiders have come with one purpose in mind; "harvesting" the organic.
Earthlings and their allies have tried several ploys with some success at the immense collateral cost to the innocent in order to prevent extinction. Former Navy admiral David Anderson and his partner ex Council Director Kahlee Sanders have proof the Reaper threat is genuine, but the Council members refuse to accept extinction is a viable event. While the leaders remain in denial, The Illusive Man, head of top secret military unit Cerberus, learns the pair knows too much about his operation. They must die. However, the beleaguered couple meets Gillian Grayson, who suffered hideous experiments that have left her with incredible power. When she learns the Illusive Man killed her father Paul, she obsesses with a bone marrow deep need to execute him.
As with Mr. Karpyshyn's entries, this exciting military-political science fiction tale, based on the Mass Effect game, contains strong timely moral questions. The action-packed storyline asks the audience to ponder when does personal need supersede the greater societal good and whether there are scenarios in which not executing a cold killer who deserves to die is needed to save trillions of lives. Filled with action, fans will relish William Dietz's first Mass Effect galaxy thriller.
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Initial post: Jan 31, 2012 2:43:53 AM PST
StraightShooter says:
So are you paid for reviews or just know nothing about Mass Effect?
PS. Deleting comments shows your true colors.
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Posted on Jan 31, 2012 2:48:34 AM PST
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Icinix says:
Fans are not relishing Dietz first Mass Effect Novel.
They are uniting and hoping and petitioning BioWare that Dietz is not even allowed near a country that might have something to do with Mass Effect.
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Posted on Jan 31, 2012 2:52:04 AM PST
A. Jay says:
This book is little more than an slap to the face of the Mass Effect franchise and its fans. There are obviously strings being pulled above this reviewer.
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Posted on Jan 31, 2012 2:53:51 AM PST
Maugrim says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Klausner
A big old fake.
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Posted on Jan 31, 2012 2:57:36 AM PST
J. K. Wiltshire says:
Are you high or something?
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Posted on Jan 31, 2012 3:21:32 AM PST
Chris says:
Did you forget to add the disclaimer where you profess to both a complete ignorance of all things Mass Effect and not having read the book at all?
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Posted on Jan 31, 2012 3:53:12 AM PST
GS says:
you obviously did not read this book! you should feel ashamed.
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Posted on Jan 31, 2012 6:20:37 AM PST
M. Rice says:
It is almost painfully obvious you didn't read this. If anyone was looking for proof of your legitimacy, here it is.
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It's now 2 of 83 helpful.
Yeah, good stuff, buck210, as usual. Listen, about the links: in your editor when you put together an article, there are several buttons over the editing field. One of them is like chain links (well, it's very small, so this may not be obvious, but if you put your cursor over it, you'll get a text baloon telling you what's what. So, to add a link, you highlight the text you want to point to that place, and click on this "link" button. It'll pop up a dialog box: enther the URL into there. Click OK; done.
That aside, I'll be always glad to fix an article for you, so don't fret if you don't get it right immediately.
Also, I took a few screenshots of this review; let me know if you want then here, I'll be glad to add them to this post (or another one to keep them from becoming huge).
Yes, please add them to this post. I will try on the next one to get the links/etc right. Thanks!!
Done! Enjoy.
(Holler if anything.)
Thanks again Malleus!
This post is now at "3 of 125 people found the following review helpful:" and I noticed that she dropped 20 in rank from yesterday(dropped from 874 to 894). At this rate, it won't be long before she loses her top 1000 badge!
That will be an historic event. We will have to celebrate!
it's now "3 of 166 people found the following review helpful:"
and, she dropped another 85 points in rank to 959. Is it all the negs from this review that's causing her to drop like a rock?
Who knows, she's got over 26,000 reviews. Maybe other reviews also get hit, but w/o comments so we don't see them. Or maybe Mr Bozos finally decided that his Queen of Reviewing Fraud is more of a liability. He's a math genius, maybe he crunched some numbers and decided she's not earning her keep, who the fuck knows how and why things happen on the Amazon review system. Jeffie hasn't been recently as profitable as Wall Street anticipated -- maybe this has something to do with it (though it would be anti-intuitive since Harriet sells his books, and we all know by now that Mr Bozos never met a five-star review of anything he sells that he didn't like).
Or maybe it is this one review. Maybe the speed of neg arrival adds weight? Maybe they calculate a derivative too, kind of like the PID feedback in control. Anyone's guess, enigma wrapped in mystery, etc.
There's still the question of these three morons who found this "review" helpful. A few die-hard members of the Klausner Protection Squad(TM)? Or maybe it's herself, her hubby (CB), and the publisher. We'll have to ask Manny.
Here's an article on current Amazon problems: http://seekingalpha.com/article/335731-3-elephants-in-the-amazon-room?source=yahoo
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