markm reviewed The people's house by David Pepper
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4 stars
A very good political thriller that doesn't strain your credulity.
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I'm now marked as an old man with certainty, since, although the battle is long over (if there was one), I cannot read "impact" for "affect" without wincing. Even worse are the widespread use of "impacted" (exclusive of the dental literature) and, more horrible still, "impactful". I know how the generations before me felt when they encountered the now thoroughly acceptable "hopefully". The author is young enough and open-minded enough for this usage to appear frequently in this novel. I only mention it to warn the elderly.