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ing News: A Novel<\/strong> [Kindle Edition]<\/h2>\nby J. D. Rader and, Michael Gudgell<\/p>\n
What I liked best about this book was its message about our increasingly superficial society and the entertainment (news) industry that coddles, feeds and encourages it.<\/span> <\/p>\n Get a copy in the digital format of your choice for less than $5<\/a>.<\/span> \u00a0Also available as a paperback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We like to surprise you once in a while. Today, we’re going to surprise you with a book review by TC. Many of you like to read and many of you read digital editions on Kindle, Android tablets, Windows PC (using Kindle, Nook or other apps). For some reason more people read books in the summer than in\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7850,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/7850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The characters are believable; the authors developed each character thoughtfully and carefully. I ended up detesting some of the characters and liking others. At times I even found myself wishing I had a friend like Bill (you’ll see).<\/span>
With the underlying social commentary, interesting plot twists, truly great characters, and rather surprising ending, this book was much than I expected it to be. I thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn’t put it down.<\/span>
Many times when I’m reading one of the free Kindle books, I don’t expect much and read it with a critical eye. Many of the free Kindle books are replete with grammatical errors and sometimes sophomoric writing. But not Breaking News. From the beginning to end, “Breaking News” reads like a professionally-written novel. I’ve paid a lot of money for books that are not nearly as good as this one.<\/span>
Whether you like political thrillers or detective novels or not, I urge you to read this book. You won’t regret it. The hero is genuine; a nice guy who finds himself in a dead-end life, full of sorrow, misery and uncertainty. He’s lost his wife and his only child because 15 years ago he made some poor choices. I think you, like me, will find a little of yourself in Bill. But in the end, he learned from his mistakes, stayed true to himself, and finally moved on with his life.<\/span>
There are a lot of messages in this book. And while it’s not a moralistic novel, its undercurrent of right and wrong, its subtle way of pointing out some of our skewed societal values, and the way this book makes you think about the way things are will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading this book.<\/span>
Great story. Great writing. \u00a0Great book.<\/span><\/p>\n