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This Novel Made Me Think, December 11, 2001
This review is from: Hold Back This Day (Paperback)
I seldom come across a novel that actually makes me think, no matter how entertaining it might otherwise be. But Mr. Kendall's "Hold Back This Day" is certainly one of the rare exceptions. As far as I know, a story about the white race teetering on the brink of extinction has never been written, at least none that I've ever heard of. Anyway, Kendall does pretty well with the concept, considering how un-PC his subject matter is. Jeff Huxton, the main character,is well-drawn and interesting, a man desparately trying to accept a world of so-called "racial harmony" when all around him he sees nothing of the kind. Almost everyone else is a hodge-podge of inter-racial breeding, a kind of tan everyman, programmed by a century of government brainwashing to deny that whites had ever done any good in the world. Jeff believes it too, up until he finds evidence that proves otherwise. From there on, he's a troubled man in a very ugly and unpleasant world, a world full of historical half-truths purposely intended to destroy any last shred of racial pride among whites. I won't say anymore from here, other than the story is a fast read, without bogging down into all the political/ideological stuff that it easily could have. It's basically an adventure story, about one man's fight to save his son. Huxton himself makes a good, if somewhat reluctant hero. A few scenes moved me deeply, especially near the end. Not many books I've read can do that. If just for the off-beat theme, "Hold Back This Day" is definitely worth the time.
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29 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
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Beware! You'll be thinking about it after you read it!, May 16, 2002
This review is from: Hold Back This Day (Paperback)
I'm not the kind who likes to give reviews, but after reading this book I feel like I should. As a person who keeps up on current events, I have noticed many similarities between the book and life today, even though the story takes place a little over 100 years from now. Similarities such as: forced racial integration, political correctness, movies and news stories deliberately instilling a collective guilt on white people, undefended borders in the USA and Europe, TV and Hollywood making films to induce miscegenation between whites and non whites, magnifying hate crimes committed by whites and minimizing hate crimes committed against whites in an effort to instill even more guilt. Just as in the book, there seems to be a genocidal plan against people of European decent, and what I got out of this book most was the urgency of it and the finality of extinction. As with most books it starts off slow and wordy, but very soon you will be in the thick of it and by the end you wont be able to stop reading it. It becomes very exciting near the end and I'll stop here so not to ruin it for you. But I will say that I didn't expect to read what eventually happened, and for that I thank the author, and thanks for writing this very important and entertaining book! Buy this book you will not be disappointed!
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25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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Ecce Veritas!, April 22, 2002
This review is from: Hold Back This Day (Paperback)
In the sci-fi publishing industry there exists a uniform understanding of how economic, ethnic and gender issues must be presented in writing. This view is monolithic and brooks no dissent. It states that the future all stories should aim for is a multicultural nirvana. In time all peoples will be equal, educated and healthy a la Star Trek. If there must be a negative role in this society it will be played by a white male (preferably Southern). Publishers are near-unanimous on this and anyone wishing to submit anything to the contrary, no matter how well crafted, need not apply. Enter Ward Kendall. He has presented us with a long-overdue what-if scenario and directs our thoughts toward a profound problem. What if, he asks, this harmonic multicultural paradise does not come heralded by trumps of glory and songs of praise but with truncheons, tears, blood and bullets? What if the techniques used to usher in the new age are not those of Gandhi, Buddha and Christ but rather of the SS and the NKVD? Kendall has painted a world suffering under stringent uniformity and failed tyrannical policies; a world, sadly, not too far fetched nor too unbelievable. If we want our future to be one of freedom and happiness then we best realize that there are no views, no positions, no mores so holy and venerable that they should not, from time to time, be held up to deep questioning and review. If we wish to hold back the day envisioned and illuminated by the author then we can start by slaughtering a few gluttonous sacred cows that've grown too big for the corral. Ward Kendall provides us with more than a fast-paced, well-written action adventure (though it is that). He has delivered a provocative work--more thinker than thriller--which will linger in your thoughts long after the back cover has been closed.
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