Comments on: Ghost

By: R

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:26:08 +0000

I don’t care what you say. Bob is a cuddlemuffin.

By: Slade Grayson

Slade Grayson — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:21:42 +0000

Here are some of Bob’s other complaints:

1) AMERICAN PSYCHO was too tame;
2) Thought DEATH WISH was a good movie, but the rape scene could have been longer;
3) DEXTER is pretty cool, but why is he so selective about who he kills? Broaden that victim pool, buddy! and
4) Tom Clancy’s books have too much techno-babble and not enough raping.

By: R

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:17:56 +0000

I agree with Bob. Every word.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:11:24 +0000

you people are all idiots…he’s not in his 50′s he’s 35 at the start of the novel.ive read the entire series.you might wana consider actualy reading it yourself before you blather half truths and propaganda about a story you obviously havent read.stop reading the wiki dumbass and try reading the series.i thought it was pretty good.and yes i DO like the main character.ghost is a no holds barred self professed bad man sure…but the only people you ever see him be BAD to are the shitbags who keep messing with his people.aside from that its abviously not supposed to be based in real life..thats why they call it sci-fi.hell in one of his later novels he ends up with a psychopathic russian prostitute on his team who he takes in to a black ops government hospitol and lets her get modified with some hi-tech body mods…things like…poison fingernails.lol and thats just the tip.so like i said…i love the series..ive re-read it a couple of times now…and it just gets better.sure some of the sex is over the top.but then again thats part of the story.as for indecipherable mil speak.you might wana concider he’s ex-military.i read it just fine.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:25:56 +0000

It’s meant to be over the top. Take the Plane ride for instance(in the wheel well of a passenger jet), Ringo knew it would asphyxiate any human, left it in because its over the top. Didn’t notice any “indecipherable military speak.” It was all completely decipherable.

By: Rod Lott

Rod Lott — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:48:21 +0000

Not sure I followed all that, but Best Comment Ever all the same, sir.

By: Diamond

Diamond — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:44:26 +0000

Very interesting comments. Probably by some who know very little about the world that might exist both sexually and where violence is concerned.

Also the idea that “Heros” are more pure than one believes is rather amusing to someone who might have participated in the violence and sex at sometime. Heros are crazy MF’s, or straight people who fall into a situation where they simply do what they have to do. Some get lucky most don’t. But a whole lot of them are crazy assholes who do in fact get a little kinky, and yes some of the things described do get done by genuine heros.

Ringo’s work IS a little over the top. Us fifty year old ex -icemen better in our imagination, “The older I gets the better I was!”, so I have to look a little in askance at some of the things. But capability of violence that most civilized people can not really imagine even at fifty? have no doubts. Even as a young, dumb and full of cum, idiot who thought he was invinciple KNEW not to screw around with the old guys we ran with. Could I have taken any of them straight up – almost for sure. Unfortunately it never would have been straight up cause they would always have been cheating. I remember one old guy saying, “Remember drone, you are going to have to fight. Sometimes you will win and sometimes you will lose, but ALWAYS cheat. If it’s worth fighting for, it’s worth cheating!” Remembering that I do not think I have lost a fight since I got old enough to remember that someone just might be better than me. I have had a few, but I always cheat. So while Ringo’s work is a little over the top the language was right on the mark. And the scenes were not that distant from reality, just a bit exaggerated like any good sea story.

By: FRIDAY AFTERNOON REGASM >> 7.7.06 » Bookgasm

FRIDAY AFTERNOON REGASM >> 7.7.06 » Bookgasm — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:18:18 +0000

[...] We also noted our condolences at the passing of sci-fi publisher Jim Baen, took a look at some super-short horror and aimed another cheap shot at John Ringo. [...]

By: NEWSGASM >> 7.3.06 » Bookgasm

NEWSGASM >> 7.3.06 » Bookgasm — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:06:15 +0000

[...] R.I.P. JIM BAEN Influential science fiction publisher Jim Baen – of Baen Books, naturally – has passed away at the age of 62, having recently suffered a stroke. Fans are asked to memoralize Baen by buying copies of his current anthology THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN and donate them to libraries or teenagers. I’m almost (but not quite) ashamed to admit we’ve only reviewed one Baen Books release here at BOOKGASM – John Ringo’s GHOST – and two months later, we ended up calling it the worst novel of 2005. [...]

By: Rod Lott

Rod Lott — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 13:32:57 +0000

There was a time when I wanted to read it, too. And then I read it. Now I can never take that back.

Next time you’re in the bookstore, flip open to somewhere around page 200 and start reading. It either will cure you of your curiosity or send you the restroom for a quick wank.

By: Christopher Sharpe

Christopher Sharpe — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:29:24 +0000

I kind of want to read this.

By: Rod Lott

Rod Lott — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:51:15 +0000

Yes, he’s primarily known for writing SF with a military-action bent, like THE HERO. I haven’t read anything else of his, however.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:00:54 +0000

Does Ringo usually write science fiction? I seem to remember his name and space opera going together. How is that stuff?

Brian.

By: Christopher Sharpe

Christopher Sharpe — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:18:57 +0000

This sounds completely crazy. I had to check to see if it was from a real publisher or some kind of sleazy outfit, but i guess it looks legit. The reviews on Amazon are pretty funny.

By: Rod Lott

Rod Lott — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:10:08 +0000

AMERICAN PSYCHO is tame by comparison. I think this is a strong contender for the year’s worst novel.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:46:23 +0000

My god, that sounds like one heinous novel. It almost sounds like the author want to set up readers — here’s what you get for liking this kind of story. Or something. Weird.

Brian.