Reviews for Largest Governments of the U.S. 2007: Latest Comparisons of Your Financial & Employee Performance

The average rating for Largest Governments of the U.S. 2007: Latest Comparisons of Your Financial & Employee Performance based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-28 00:00:00 Michael Mizell I bought and read this book in the seventies, though I did read it again in the eighties. It was written by a young vicar (or a man who had been a young vicar at the time), whose first parish in the sixties was a run down church near the centre of Birmingham (that's Birmingham, England, not one of the myriad Birminghams in the USA). Anyway, I digress ... The young and trepidacious vicar finds that his church hall is being used as a base by the local Rockers (think British Hell's Angels), who are young, tough, uncompromising and who always smell of wee and engine oil because they never wash their jeans and fix their bikes in the hall, among other things. They call themselves 'Double Zero' because zero is nothing and they feel that they are less than nothing - very sad really. The vicar has to try to keep some semblance of control but not alienate his young 'flock', so allows himself to be initiated into the gang; this involves trials such as a game where the bikers ride down the motorway and the winner is the one who bumps his pillion passenger against the most cars! Needless to say, after some time he becomes accepted by the rockers, who 'Christen' him 'Dave the Vic'; they gradually open up to him as they become accustomed to his presence and the fact that he is not a threat to them, so he is able to help them. This book is very entertaining and different, and shows that even rough tough inner city youngsters still have their insecurities and need to learn the lessons of life. An uplifting read, whilst also being funny.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-05-20 00:00:00 Timothy Sullivan The first novel here, 'A Bid For Fortune', is pretty dull. Some Victorian plum gets involved in various adventures while trying to make his way in the world, including interminable scenes of terribly prim and proper 'romance' which make Jane Austen look racy. The only interesting scenes are those where the diabolical mesmerist Dr Nikola gets in said plum's way. Boothby was obviously smart enough to realise that he'd found a nugget of gold in his dross, so the next novel was 'Dr Nikola' - narrated by a near-identical plum who is at least teamed up with Nikola. Who, like Harry Lime after him, becomes suddenly less villainous as soon as he's the lead, although to modern sensibilities the fact that his grand scheme involves spending half the book pretending to be a Chinaman might still be thought a little off.