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Related: Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance If you've not read it: good, keep your life that way. For the people out there that have: I'm sorry. The 'plot' is akin
by Balgair 6y ago
Related: Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance
If you've not read it: good, keep your life that way. For the people out there that have: I'm sorry.
The 'plot' is akin to 24, in that there is a good guy that kill bad guys. But the writing style, the aggressive use of exposition, the terrible dialog, and the total lack of logic in scene construction make the book just terrible. The part where the protagonist blinks out the message "Airstrike now. 35 41 46 N / 51 25 23 E" (the coordinates for Tehran) is comically unrealistic. If you actually put that into morse code you get : .- .. .-. ... - .-. .. -.- . / -. --- .-- .-.-.- / ...-- ..... / ....- .---- / ....- -.... / -. / -..-. / ..... .---- / ..--- ..... / ..--- ...-- / . You try blinking that out.
I've no idea who his editor was or who his ghostwriter is, but good Lord, Ben really needs to get better at spotting grifters. That book is hot garbage.
- jimmygrapes 6y agoInterestingly I tried to blink that out and ran into a problem: how do I represent a pause or break with blinking? This made me wonder how it would be done with other Morse code transmitters, and though I haven't yet looked it up anywhere it seems to me that Morse code might not be the binary I always assumed it was, but more trinary: dot, dash, break. Something I will look into more now, thanks.