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  	<strong><a href="/user/show/2025065-johnny-hess">Johnny Hess</a></strong>
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<span id="freeTextreview_rating37523800" style="display:none" class="reviewText">(Review by Richard Lee Fulgham, Copyright 2008)<br/><br/>People treated Caludius as if he was an idiot because he stammered and drooled -- though behind that sorry face was an intelligent, highly educated, compassionate and sensitive person who felt deeply the rejections of the people swirling so proudly around him. <br/><br/>He would have believed himself to be as worthless and wretched as other people made him feel if not for one tutor who perhaps mystically saw the genius behind the mask afixed on his face by nature. <br/><br/>Claudius certainly has his counterparts in modern society. Shy, odd, eccentric individuals are immediately labled &quot;losers&quot; by those whom the condemned intellectuals try to contact. The very implications of the word &quot;loser&quot; often destroy them <br/><br/>Claudius was from one of the great families of ancient Rome, yet even he suffered the quick judgement of so-called normal people. He was not fit to play sports or train to be a warrior. He could not express himself with quick, funny wit. <br/><br/>He was not able to make himself understood enough to win the friendship of another. He was considered an annoyance, a pest, to be ignored with the unintentional cruelty that others so blithely inflicted upon him. <br/><br/>Fortunately, Claudius was strong enough to learn how to live honorably within himself. He studied history and became a master of recording the human aspects of his fellow Romans. Ultimately, due to succession only, he became Caesar of the Roman Empire, and a wise one who ruled with respect for the Roman citizens. <br/><br/>Claudius early discovered that spark inside that eventually flickers out in almost everybody -- but in him was fanned into fire by his own sense of fate and the imperative to live up to one's fate. <br/><br/>Give me Claudius and not your popular men and women who huddle together, patting each other on the back! Author Robert Graves had an insight into intellectual outsiders which one gains only from personal experience. <br/><br/>Graves makes it clear that not every outsider has the inner light to overcome cruel indifference. Graves was wise enough to realize that most ousiders lack the will to educate themselves and become knowledgeable enough to rise above the dim awareness of those who couldn't or wouldn't recognize him as someone worth befriending. <br/><br/>Claudius was treated as if he were just an irritation and annoyance whenever he tried to make contact with another human being. His isolation was especially painful when he attempted to befriend someone and they slammed a metaphorical but solid door in his face. <br/><br/>Yet he not only learned to survive, he learned to forgive and respect those who dismissed him as an irrelevant nobody. He learned, as did Robert Graves, to see humanity as a species that inevitably watched  their power, beauty and talent wither away with youth, while the wisdom of Claudius and those few like him grew and blossomed with age. <br/><br/>Moral? Watch and try to understand those whom you slam the door upon. <br/><br/>They are not always someone to be feared or sneered at. (Many of them are, it's true.) But a few see in you something to like and admire. They're just trying to tell you in their clumsy way. Not all are future Caesars, but many are intelligent, sensitive people who just might be worthy of acceptance into your otherwise impenetrable circle of friends . . . and, perhaps, your own priceless friendship.<br/><br/><a href="#" onclick="Element.hide('freeTextreview_rating37523800'); Element.show('freeTextContainerreview_rating37523800'); return false;">(less)</a></span>
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    			  I've seen this character on TV and he's a physically huge giant who goes out of his way to bully people, then whine that his free speech has been impeded.  But look -- he denies the Holocaust.  My father was in the out fit that liberated Dachau and he told me eyeball to eyebally that the death camps existed.  He saw it himself.  Men, women and little children worked down to skeletons, wearing ragged striped overshirts and baggy pants, degraded and dehumanized.  My father did more than cry -- he didn't admit it, but I suspect he took part in the &quot;atrocity&quot; there, where dozens of guards were murdered on the spot by both soldiers and freed inmates, but the larger slaughter of over 400 SS soldiers, whose training area was within the camp. I've known people like Ward Churchhill and they are dangerous beyond the telling of it.  the one I knew carried a .45 automatic pistol undeer his belt in front, so you could see it.  Someone blew his head off in 1997. Ward Churchhill in a beg Charles Manson, and you can be sure dozens of pretty little ignorant chicks follow him around and get their twats reamed doggy-style -- for this guy is a dog!
    			
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  			New comment on <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/237166" class="userReview" style="font-weight: bold">Kathy</a>'s review of 
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  		When time is a factor, I simply stop reading all female writers.  The plots are always overwrought, absurdly romantic, sexual for the sake of sexual appeal (attracting adolescents and freaky degranged loners) -- and never never posses that strange, mystic, overwelmind understanding of life that you'll find in the majority of male fiction authors.  We must face facts.  Women are simply awful writers of fiction and should be avoided by those seeking meaningful and enlightening fiction.<br/>And while we're at it, most minorities write about their personal struggles with biogotry -- which they always exaggerate and make all of white males evil devils.  There, I have spoken my mind and you Politically Correct little chicks can have your silly genre to yourself
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  		<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2347456.The_Hogs_of_Cold_Harbor_The_Civil_War_Saga_of_Private_Johnny_Hess_CSA" class="bookTitle">The Hogs of Cold Harbor: The Civil War Saga of Private Johnny Hess, CSA</a>
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  		Oh, B********t!  This jerk &quot;Richard Lee&quot; writes a sympathetic book about a real Confederate soldier and then whines about it being considered a book about and by a stinking traitor to the USA!  <br/><br/>That d***n Richard Lee should know that we modern people consider the whole Southern war an act of rebellion and everybody who fought in it should have been hanged or shot.  I think richard Lee should be hung.  His soldier fights so he can keep his farm and save his wife from getting raped.  That happens to losers, rich!  They deserve it for losing.  We Yanks flooded the south and showed you ignornat hill billies our bayonets right in your face!  Ha ha ha!  We stole your land, screwed all your women black and white, burned your court houses, killed all your livestock, hung all your officers, made you wipe our butts, we shipped all your hogs to chicago, we wrote the history showing you as ignorant uneducated barefooted clod-hoppers.  No, &quot;richard Lee&quot;, don't tell us your Confederate soldier was like any other soldier -- fighting for his land and women and &quot;honor&quot;.  The simple truth is we used the slavery issue to bury you in crap forever.  My ancestor was in a calvary unit and his grandkids told me he and his men used to enjoy stripping Southern Prisoners of War and plugging them with corn cobs dipped in kerosene!  You dumb ifnorant no count rebels.  Damn You, richard Lee fulgham (yes, I know your name!) you're against our country, against our free enterprise, agAINST our getting what ever the hell we want, anyway we can get it!  that's why your confederacy had to die -- it was weak -- it tried to be nobel and knightly in a time when all that crap was in the middle ages.  
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  		When time is a factor, I simply stop reading all female writers.  The plots are always overwrought, absurdly romantic, sexual for the sake of sexual appeal (attracting adolescents and freaky degranged loners) -- and never never posses that strange, mystic, overwelmind understanding of life that you'll find in the majority of male fiction authors.  We must face facts.  Women are simply awful writers of fiction and should be avoided by those seeking meaningful and enlightening fiction.<br/>And while we're at it, most minorities write about their personal struggles with biogotry -- which they always exaggerate and make all of white males evil devils.  There, I have spoken my mind and you Politically Correct little chicks can have your silly genre to yourself
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