Reviews for To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848-1902

The average rating for To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848-1902 based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-02-28 00:00:00 Kim Geoffroy Let's just get this out of the way up front: This books sucks. I mean the author is clearly familiar with the English language and knows how to put words together in order to form sentences, but I'm not sure it's something he should do. He does have some issues with knowing when to use "G" or "J" in regards to proper names. Seriously, it's "Jeffrey". It's "G'Quan". These are basic things. What the author lacks is any sense of understanding of the characters, setting or feel of Babylon 5. The book comes across as having been written by someone who read about B5 on Wikipedia but never actually watched the program. He has no feel for the characters, nor the politics of B5 or EarthGov. Which is probably why entirely too much of the novel is spent on PoV of what should have been a throwaway character at best. The author clearly felt he was writing something profound, with. . . deep things to say about the human condition and the morality of violence, including that of the man in the street and that sanctioned by the state. But it wasn't profound, it wasn't deep. It was high school in its understanding of things, with a depth of complexity you would find in an old episode of Star Trek (and not one of the good episodes; no, I mean more like the literal black and white guys - I'd call it ham-fisted but I think pigs would take it as an insult). The plot was unoriginal and uninspired (which, in the hands of a more skilled author could still be made to work), and the ending was visible not from a mile away , but from a geostationary orbit away. This should have been a decent novel; it was not. I will actively avoid the works of this author in the future.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-10-18 00:00:00 Kendy Kutchek It's a good story but it does have quite a few flaws in regards to accuracy with the TV Series. Very early in the book the author describes the Narn as having gills. This is not true. The TV Series explains that G'Kar had gill implants surgically fitted - they are not born with them. The book also makes references to both G'Kar and Londo using links on their wrists. This is also an error. No one except station personnel have links. G'Kar comments on the light of the Erudite Moon through the B5 portholes. B5 is orbiting Epsilon Eridani not Erudite. And, just a bug bear, but the author over uses the word 'instation', it seems to appear at least 5 times in every chapter - and the chapters aren't that long. However, all these aside I did enjoy the storyline.