Review of "Camp of the Saints"

Camp of the Saints is a novel written in 1973 predicting the fall of Western Civilization to a wave of foreign immigrants which sets off internal rebellions by the immigrant underclass already in Europe and the United States.

That this book make such a prediction so long ago is why it is respected today, when waves of immigrants are changing the ethnic and cultural makeup of much of Europe (Muslim) and many parts of the United States (Hispanic). Otherwise it is not a well written book.

Problems include:

1) The point of view chances suddenly, so that the reader has trouble knowing whether the time is before the immigration, during it, or after it.

2) The author manages to distance the reader from most events with elaborate writing.

3) The characters are not well developed.

Many reviewers on Amazon.com complained that the book is racist. They are right, but that did not bother me because I found it just another way the author was using to beat me over the head with his dramatic predictions.

I more or less enjoyed reading the book but will not read it again.