Review by t-michelle -- The Banned Book about Love

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[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "The Banned Book about Love" by Scott Hughes.]

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3 out of 4 stars

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3 out of 4!

At first glance, this pamphlet leaves your thoughts screaming with rage. You do not want to finish reading it. You want to throw it at the author…The hard part is continuing to read! The really hard part is to force your opinion down and read the pamphlet for the overall content. It is easy to form an opinion of something early on and even easier to walk away from things we disagree with. But I agreed to read and review this short 14-page pamphlet…

So, I read beyond those first few lines…. To the very end. And there are some fairly well thought out points to the madness. This pamphlet is about loving everyone, not just the easy to love people. Sure, it uses topics that are tough to digest and actions that are hard to love through, however, that is the point!

While the message is put out similar to how you would hear someone preaching about loving everyone, it is not necessarily a religious message. The story is based off the author’s choice to love even the nastiest people on this earth. Spreading the message of 'Love not Hate' almost always comes off as preachy. This pamphlet had the feeling as well, to a point. And though I did not fully grasp the author's reasoning to use certain topics that stir the anger inside every human being, I was able to put the content together and see his reasoning.

If you push aside the topics of loving a rapist, murderer, or other violent offences, the overall content is a message about eliminating hate and it is well-written. It is an extremely short read, which results in an extremely short review (unless I were to provide the content of the pamphlet).

I cannot fully give a 4-star rating because I feel the pamphlet is based solely on the writer's personal opinion and it jumps around a lot to topics that confuse the point. However, I will give it a 3 out of 4 rating because the content is well-written.

Because the pamphlet is so small, it is tough to get the full 400 words for a review. I would be rewriting the pamphlet. I am not sure how to extend this review to inform the reader whether it is good or bad. There is no meat to the pamphlet, resulting in the inability to really provide a detailed review of the content.

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The Banned Book about Love
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