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"Well, I had reviewed Ann Coulter's book Godless before, and then I heard about a book called Soulless, which, if you look at the cover, you may see a slight resemblance there. I thought at first that this was a rip-off of Ann Coulter's book by some shameless liberal trying to make a few bucks on her back, but the — well, the cover is a parody of the cover. It's not a parody of the book.
Anyway, I read the book, and it's a really — a much better book than the one that it's patterned on. In fact, it's not a book about soul of Godless, so much about Ann Coulter and all of her writings. Susan Estrich is one of the token liberals on Fox News. She's also the author of a book about Hillary Clinton for President, and she considers Ann Coulter to be — she does use these words — a menace to society. She not only drags the political discourse to the right, but she also drags it down. So it's about a style of political discourse, the media which encourages this style, and how that's detrimental to our country and what could be done with it.
There's not really anything I could point to I don't like about the book, to tell the truth. It's from a slightly different area of the left spectra that I'm from, but I think it — I believe from that perspective it addresses it a larger audience.
I would recommend it to anyone who's to the left of Ann Coulter, and perhaps it could be a cautionary tale to anyone who shares Ann Coulter's point of view. I'll give it five stars."
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