Book · 2016 · Fiction
True Allegiance
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True Allegiance, which I think I can say is like if the Quran in the Bible had a baby and then that baby fell off of a ski lift and hit its head on a pile of rocks several times.
What they say about it
- Terrible book“unbelievably terrible novel”7
- Reading chapters on podcast“reading another few chapters”3
The best things said about it
Hate this book so much. I just I'm so glad it's over. It's terrible.
You have to have like like experienced things in the world to write well and Ben is not and that's made very clear by the book.
Reading excerpts from Ben Shapiro's unbelievably terrible novel, True Allegiance.
Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance, which is just one of the worst things ever written.
Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance is a riveting thriller about what happens when America falls apart.
Why people recommend it
True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro is a political thriller novel that weaves together multiple disjointed storylines centered around domestic and international security issues. Robert Evans and Cody Johnston heavily discussed and critiqued the novel over multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards. Initially, Robert Evans tentatively compared Steven Seagal's book to Shapiro's work, but after further reading, he quickly reversed his opinion, stating that Seagal's book actually compared poorly and that Shapiro's novel was exceptionally terrible. Throughout their final episode covering the book, Evans and Johnston criticized the narrative for its poor pacing, convoluted plots, and geographical errors. Evans joked about the painful reading experience of powering through the final percentages of the story and expressed immense relief upon finishing it, while simultaneously recommending the miserable task as a humorous career path for listeners. The hosts ultimately dissected the novel as a prime example of clumsy political fiction filled with unrealistic scenarios and glaring structural flaws.
Every mention
Robert Evans just grunt into a microphone and then groggy read Ben Shapiro's terrible book for an hour and a half to you… 19
Discussed
“Here's the thing. I kind of suspect it might be a better book than Ben Shapiro's. That there's not a that's not a zero chance possibility. Yeah. Low bar. It's the It's literally the lowest bar possible”
Critiqued
“Shireen, I have to I'm a man who can admit when he's wrong, unlike Steven Seagal. I started this by saying this might be a better book than True Allegiance. I no longer believe that.”
Critiqued
“Uh, it it they love commas, too. It it compares poorly to True Allegiance. I mean, I'm I didn't know you went through that whole book chapter by chapter.”
Critiqued
“just grunt into a microphone and then groggy read Ben Shapiro's terrible book for an hour and a half to your friends, which is the career path I recommend for everyone listening.”
Discussed
“And we are about to take our very last trip into the world of Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance. I don't know if I'm emotionally prepared for this.”
Critiqued
“There's so many different plots and they're all poorly laid out and everything takes twice as long as it ought to. You're right, Cody, that it might be because we've stretched this out over the course of a year. But also, no, it's bad.”
Discussed
“We're back and we're we're we're just desperately trying to close out this book that we are now 90% of the way through. So close. I can taste it. The president. Okay. So, we we we get to the president”
Critiqued
“Hate this book so much. I just I'm so glad it's over. It's terrible. But it is over. It is over. Ben Shapiro's standin character is looking west from New York towards Texas, which is south.”
Critiqued
“you don't have to have had a lot of you don't have to have had life experience about something to write about it. But you have to have had life experience to write. you you have to have like like experienced things in the world to write well and Ben is not and that's made very clear by the book”
Critiqued
“with the talented Mr. Shapiro talking about Benny's book True Allegiance, which I think I can say is like if the Quran in the Bible had a baby and then that baby fell off of a ski lift and hit its head on a pile of rocks several times”
Discussed
“And today we're going to read another section from that book, Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance.”
Critiqued
“So, we're we're going to try and ease a little bit of that stress and pain by reading another few chapters from Benathan Shapiro's terrible terrible book, True Allegiance.”
Critiqued
“that way is of course reading excerpts from Ben Shapiro's unbelievably terrible novel, True Allegiance.”
Discussed
“And the book that I've picked, you know, the the book that Cody and Katie and I are reading, um, piece by piece, making our way through, is uh is is Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance, which is just one of the worst things ever written.”
Discussed
“and and this is going to be a fun one cuz we're we're diving back into Ben Shapiro's just unfathomably poorly written uh fiction novel, True Allegiance.”
Discussed
“Today, due to the massive, outrageous, clamoring popular demand, we are continuing with our investigation into true allegiance, the fictional novel debut of one Benathan Shapiro.”
Discussed
“And today we're going to read a book called True Allegiance. Now, uh, this has been described, uh, by the New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor as a blockbuster debut thriller ripped straight from the headlines. And its author is a fellow y'all might know, h, old Benny Shaps, my favorite Ben Shapiro. Yeah, we are we are doing”
Discussed
“Now, True Allegiance was a book published in 2016 by Post Hill Press uh and and of course author Ben Shapiro. And I want to read you all the um the Amazon description so we so we can know what we're going for here.”
Critiqued
“Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance is a riveting thriller about what happens when America falls apart.”
Cody Johnston what's this book about again? Uh everything that Ben hates allegiance, which so far is not white people on… 1
Discussed
“what's this book about again? Uh everything that Ben hates allegiance, which so far is not white people on borders in the inner cities.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker2
Critiqued
“It sucks. Like, there's no like eloquent argument to be made. It's just [ __ ] bad. Yeah, it's just bad. It's just a terrible It's terrible. Yeah, it's it's it's very readable.”
Speaker Behind the Bastards Ben Shapiro's Godawful Book: The Final Episode 2021-06-03 Listen at 1:11:21
Discussed
“Oh my god. Yeah, they're true allegiance. Yeah, it's free with your Audible trial.”
Speaker Behind the Bastards What We Learned From Ben Shapiro's Racist Novel 2020-04-09 Listen at 7:48
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“Yeah, I mean, we talked about this during the Ben Shapiro's unreadable book episodes about maybe maybe doing, you know, The Way of the Shadow Wolves with Katie and Cody”
Passing
“Um who was I wonder if it's the same publisher who published Ben Shapiro's unreadable book. It says it was self-published on Wikipedia, but I wonder what like if they went through like a distributor or something.”
Passing
“And like legitimize themselves off the bat with like, oh, it's a real movie that was made, not like Ben like writing truest allegiance or whatever. And I I don't know. I'm sure Ben will get to have his hands in the pudding at some point.”
Speaker Behind the Bastards Ben Shapiro's Godawful Book: The Final Episode 2021-06-03 Listen at 1:13:56
Passing
“Uh as we as we turn into 60% of the way through True Allegiance.”