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And speaking of books, go look at the front page for Torquere Press.
Congratulations tobyrne and wesleysgirl on the publication today of, respectively, "Natural Disaster" and "Sleeping Stone". I've read them both as I was involved in the proofing/editing stages and they're both highly recommended but look who wrote them; no surprises there!
And was I the only one who watched Richard Burgi in 'In God's Country'? I enjoyed it - well, it left me feeling sad and worked up. Lot better than I'd expected (it's Michael Shanks's fault; he's made me gun shy about actors I like in made for TV movies) and RB was seriously creepy and very good.
The community, which was left to carry on as it had been doing at the end, which is just so wrong, was really not working for any of them, except possibly a few of the older men. They got a harem of much younger, subservient women, sure, but when it came down to it, they were all virtually imprisoned. RB (I think; I watched with family milling around) was a car salesman (totally could see that) and probably others amongst the men had jobs but the younger men, the natural rebels, were taken out of (I assume) home schooling at grade 6 to work the fields, not allowed to marry until they were a lot older (the patriarchs didn't want competition for the very young girls) and really weren't that much better off than the females. Their easy, scary, violence was a good sign of what a powder keg they were.
And RB... well, he had some small power in his community, but the Prophet (I kept flashing back to Heinlein's "If This Goes On-") in charge of all the communities, was the ultimate authority. RB came over, once you got past the loathing, as weak, even vulnerable. The way he kept playing with his glasses, slipping them on to bolster his resolve; the way we saw him once, alone, slackening his tie, looking weary as hell; then hearing a noise, adjusting it again, all business, on display...
It's a nasty, sordid, disturbing set up; charts on the wall for each woman's fertile period to determine who gets to share the man's bed; women declaring that they'd die of shame if they'd only had 5 children; 12 year old girls 'married' to men in their fifties - and all in the name of God. Sex purely for babies; once a woman was pregnant she was out of the rotation.
I probably wouldn't watch this again but I have to say RB turned in a good, nuanced performance. And it's terrifying to observe people with that much utter conviction that they're right.
God save me from the certain.
princessofg!And speaking of books, go look at the front page for Torquere Press.
Congratulations to
byrne and wesleysgirl on the publication today of, respectively, "Natural Disaster" and "Sleeping Stone". I've read them both as I was involved in the proofing/editing stages and they're both highly recommended but look who wrote them; no surprises there!And was I the only one who watched Richard Burgi in 'In God's Country'? I enjoyed it - well, it left me feeling sad and worked up. Lot better than I'd expected (it's Michael Shanks's fault; he's made me gun shy about actors I like in made for TV movies) and RB was seriously creepy and very good.
The community, which was left to carry on as it had been doing at the end, which is just so wrong, was really not working for any of them, except possibly a few of the older men. They got a harem of much younger, subservient women, sure, but when it came down to it, they were all virtually imprisoned. RB (I think; I watched with family milling around) was a car salesman (totally could see that) and probably others amongst the men had jobs but the younger men, the natural rebels, were taken out of (I assume) home schooling at grade 6 to work the fields, not allowed to marry until they were a lot older (the patriarchs didn't want competition for the very young girls) and really weren't that much better off than the females. Their easy, scary, violence was a good sign of what a powder keg they were.
And RB... well, he had some small power in his community, but the Prophet (I kept flashing back to Heinlein's "If This Goes On-") in charge of all the communities, was the ultimate authority. RB came over, once you got past the loathing, as weak, even vulnerable. The way he kept playing with his glasses, slipping them on to bolster his resolve; the way we saw him once, alone, slackening his tie, looking weary as hell; then hearing a noise, adjusting it again, all business, on display...
It's a nasty, sordid, disturbing set up; charts on the wall for each woman's fertile period to determine who gets to share the man's bed; women declaring that they'd die of shame if they'd only had 5 children; 12 year old girls 'married' to men in their fifties - and all in the name of God. Sex purely for babies; once a woman was pregnant she was out of the rotation.
I probably wouldn't watch this again but I have to say RB turned in a good, nuanced performance. And it's terrifying to observe people with that much utter conviction that they're right.
God save me from the certain.