Friday, August 7, 2009

Pennsylvania, A state of corruption

Here it is the section where you can put all commentary for Steve Worobs book. We have not had the opportunity to read it yet, but word around town is that Steve pretty much comes across as a big cry baby, and refuses to take responsibility for his actions. If anyone has read the book feel free to post your own review here. We have moved some of the comments from the book from other posts here also.

From Amazon.com:



1.0 out of 5 stars Diarrhea of Mad Man, August 1, 2009
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Spider (PA, USA) - See all my reviewsA charitable 1 star. A sad compendium of a man's obsessive quest to root out what he sees as pervasive corruption in Pennsylvania education, justice, and politics. Many years in the making, yet poorly edited and grammatically mediocre. Despite scads of mentions of people, places, and things, it is not indexed, footnoted, or cross-referenced. Worob portrays himself as the pitiable victim of a massive conspiracy, yet doesn't present much real evidence other than junior league sloppy bookkeeping and management, loose affiliations, opinion, and flimsy guilt-by-association. He displays tremendous self-righteousness and disregard for others in his ruthless pursuit of vendetta. He comes across as guilty of many of the nasty actions and tactics of which he accuses others. Worob gets his day in court and blows it, losing a $120,000 lawsuit filed against him by a former Schools Superintendent for his multi-year stream of allegations against him. Unable to face his defeat (in which he represented himself in court), he blames his failure on everyone but himself. Ironically, he comes across like the school student who didn't study and then blames his F on the teacher. A cautionary tale of a self-proclaimed watchdog who goes too far, bites indiscriminately, and doesn't have enough sense to let go of the legs he's chomping on, many of which are connected to innocent people.