What readers think of Founding Brothers, plus links to write your own review.

Boring! I suggest not reading this book unless you are forced to do so.

This book is horrible DO NOT READ I REPEAT DO NOT READ

Bad

Ok, first of all, I'd like to tell you all one simple statement! "You'll be reading 10 words an hour" Why? It is so boring! I literally fell asleep and the only chapter I found interesting was Chapter 1 - The Duel... the rest was just nonsense. I don't understand why IB students have to read this crappy book. I know Ellis is some erudite person but this book is not conspicuous! Somehow, Ellis just enjoys showing off his rhetoric of words and that's about it but I recommend that you don't read it unless it is mandatory like Antonius and me and the other IB kids. Again, I just want to say that you will be reading slower than a turtle can crawl on the sand.

Another thing. I don't understand why this book won a freaking prize. I'am just going to think that the human race is doomed to be stupid and pick the worst books as some winner of a prize.

This book is boring ... except for the first 15 pages.
The dual was ok, but the rest of it is repitive and monotonous.
Its full of political thoughts that no one cares about.
If u were thinking of buying this book, here's advise DON'T!
DONT READ THIS UNLESS U HAVE TO!

One bullet statement....

"Boring"

Like the others said, this book just sucks as a novel. It would have been better if it was more of a newspaper article. Besides that though, just about everyone in an IB school has to read this book and if you think about that many people, it is really hard to find. With that said, this book should be re-evaluated and taken of the reading list and possibly removed of it's prize. Not only is it bad but it is also hard to find.

Founding Brothers contains alot of repeating of the same thing, while giving you no extra nformation. Every other paragraph is the same thing, just worded differently. I hate this book and I do not recommend that anyone read it, unless they plan on reading the first page of each chapter, beacause the next 40 pages is about the same thing. Sorry, Ellis. The New York Times lied. You made the Founding Brothers look bad.