Review of Working At The Warehouse

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[Following is a volunteer review of "Working At The Warehouse" by Jerry A. Greenberg.]

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1 out of 4 stars

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Working At The Warehouse by Jerry A. Greenberg centers around Lew Thompson, a regular working Joe that works at a warehouse that produces religious goods that feed off on the faith of people. He is a cog in the machinery that supports the ever-growing business of religion. A few years before retirement, a mysterious shipment is received by his warehouse that threatens to uproot it all.

Before I start I will say that I will primarily be speaking from a technical perspective as it is what is asked of me, so if you’re hoping for a deconstruction of the messages within the book, this review will disappoint. Now as for Originality, this is the first book I've read that covers this topic, but I'm not really well read, especially in this niche, so it doesn't really mean anything. The positive aspects section of this review will be very thin as there are not a lot of good things I can say about the book. At the very least, the prose itself was good. It seemed edited as I noticed only one mistake. It was readable and flowed well, and his exposition had a very "let me tell you a story" tone to it, as if you were just listening to some person's gossip which made it easy to read through. I thought the mysterious characters were cool and the author did a good job in building the atmosphere around them, but that's about where the positives end.

What I really don't like about this book is that it's labeled as fiction. It's not, it's trying to pass itself off as fiction, but it's really not. It's entire sections of non-fiction copy pasted into dialogues within a story. The dialogue is just a way for the author to preach what they believe in. It really felt like I was just reading nonfiction at one point, the dialogue gets really bad and preachy, unnatural and expository.

It would probably come as no surprise that I rate this book a 1 out of 4 stars, not a 2, 3, and not a 4 because there is really almost nothing good about this book except for the fact that it was readable, which a lot of books are.

If you're interested in the message and don't actually care about reading a story, then sure, go ahead, maybe you might like the things the book has to say. For everyone else, I wouldn't recommend it.

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Working At The Warehouse
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