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16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
While I admire the authors' industry and accept that undoubtedly mistakes were made, too much of the information in the book is prefaced by "it was reported that", "it is suggested that", "might" and "may", or describes details which were only discovered after the event or includes statements by a range of people people who wish to show how farsighted they were.. Unlike the authorities, the authors had the picture on the front of the jigsaw box while in real time there were only bits and pieces of the jigsaw which contained non specific references to attacks on the USA and the possible use of aircraft. There is little recognition of the reality that if governments reacted to every bit of… Read more
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A marvelous book which illustrates the danger of the group think. Any challenge to that tight circle is discounted. Every negative indication is regarded as a blip. Every positive indication is hailed as a vindication of the received opinion. The slavish adherence to models which in the event proved to be wrong but on which any dissenting voice was regarded as heresy. I am sure that in fifty years time a similar book could be written about the current theory of human induced climate change. The real test will be whether scientists and governments in that case will ever admit they were wrong. In the case of the financial crash at least the balance sheets when they were eventually unraveled… Read more
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3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
I couldn't care about any of the characters. The writing was cold, uninteresting and seemed to be a writing exercise for the author rather than a novel to engage the reader. Is this another case of the Booker judges demonstrating their superiority over the genuine book lover. Sadly poor proles like me have neither the intelligence nor the deep knowledge of literary fiction, whatever that is, to appreciate the latent subtleties of this book! "Emperor" and "new clothes" come to mind.
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