anonymousdc.com.webslookup.com Review:

I've been a big fan of this genre since the first Guitar Hero game in 2005, and jumped ship to Rock Band in 2007; like most everyone else, I took a long pause from playing after Rock Band 3 released in 2010. I held back from buying Rock Band 4 because of the steep bundle price, and was excited to jump back into the game with Rock Band Rivals.

The son cannot write like the father. The plot manages to be both hopelessly complex and incredibly naive at the same time and does not seem to ever get fully developed and never does mature even after slow pudding filled narrative. Will not buy any of the son's books again.

Some people just can't seem to write badly, and Murray is one of those. He manages to sift through reams and reams of sociological statistics and data and, amazingly, make it all interesting. While I admit I occasionally skip over a few data-dense paragraphs, for the most part this is a highly readable book about a subject of great importance, i.e., the decline of what Murray calls America's "founding virtues"--industriousness, honesty, marriage, and religion. Yes, the picture he paints is unpleasant--but he tries to keep an optimistic tone, and I applaud him for one of his statements near the end of the book: individually, the people who make messes of their lives may be reasonably decent people (and we all know some of them), but, collectively, they are doing immense harm to society, and I'm afraid I just can't be as optimistic as Murray is. Sadly, our love for "tolerance" and being "nonjudgmental" means that people who are lazy, dishonest, and incapable of personal commitment never meet with the disapproving stare that previous generations tried to avoid.