Christopher A. Shaw

A really good non-fiction book will present a compelling, concise and accurate thesis, and either completely win me over (see: Shock Doctrine). Unfortunately, while Five Ring Circus has embedded within it a fascinating tale of what the Olympics really are, it is so mired down by rants, typos and general repetition that I'm not very emotionally impacted by the book and its arguments. A less obviously biased, better organized book would have been a much better way to bring this thesis to light. I think that most people will be turned off by the rhetoric and won't be interested in what Mr. Shaw has to say.… (mehr)