Comments on: The Terror http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:00:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Eric, your haikuist http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/comment-page-1/#comment-16727 Eric, your haikuist Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:32:10 +0000 http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/#comment-16727 I'm not sure I'd agree with that, Ian. The Franklin of this book is an arrogant and isolated leader who claims divine inspiration and is in charge during a spectacular disaster which galvanizes him, but he is also criticized for his handling of. He responds by leading a grand, pointless, completely unprepared mission that rapidly becomes a horrific and inescapable mess, with his men picked off singly and in small groups by an unexpected, invisible enemy. I'm not saying the book is an allegory for Iraq, but the concerns of the story are probably different than they would have been in a book written in 1997 (or 2017). I’m not sure I’d agree with that, Ian. The Franklin of this book is an arrogant and isolated leader who claims divine inspiration and is in charge during a spectacular disaster which galvanizes him, but he is also criticized for his handling of. He responds by leading a grand, pointless, completely unprepared mission that rapidly becomes a horrific and inescapable mess, with his men picked off singly and in small groups by an unexpected, invisible enemy. I’m not saying the book is an allegory for Iraq, but the concerns of the story are probably different than they would have been in a book written in 1997 (or 2017).

]]> By: Ian http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/comment-page-1/#comment-16633 Ian Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:21:35 +0000 http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/#comment-16633 "(the echoes of Iraq are never overdone, but they’re hard to miss)." What on Earth are you talking about??? The story has nothing at all to do with Iraq or modern-day politics. “(the echoes of Iraq are never overdone, but they’re hard to miss).”

What on Earth are you talking about???

The story has nothing at all to do with Iraq or modern-day politics.

]]> By: Eric http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/comment-page-1/#comment-4805 Eric Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:54:50 +0000 http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/#comment-4805 Thanks for the recommendation, guys. I\'ll have to give them a read. Thanks for the recommendation, guys. I\’ll have to give them a read.

]]> By: andy http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/comment-page-1/#comment-4783 andy Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:21:43 +0000 http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/#comment-4783 yep, i second david's recommendation of hyperion 1 & 2. it was eddy who recommended these books to me a few years back, and they make for great "traveling through italy in the summer" literature. good times. but make sure to grab both: eddy forgot to mention that the narrative is back-to-back, and it took me a week to get my hands on hyperion 2 after i had finished book 1. not good, i tell you. you'll want to know how it goes on. fast. will check out "the terror". thanks for the pointer. cheers. yep, i second david’s recommendation of hyperion 1 & 2. it was eddy who recommended these books to me a few years back, and they make for great “traveling through italy in the summer” literature. good times. but make sure to grab both: eddy forgot to mention that the narrative is back-to-back, and it took me a week to get my hands on hyperion 2 after i had finished book 1. not good, i tell you. you’ll want to know how it goes on. fast.

will check out “the terror”. thanks for the pointer. cheers.

]]> By: David http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/comment-page-1/#comment-4778 David Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:49:00 +0000 http://haikufactory.com/2007/04/17/the-terror/#comment-4778 Dan Simmons writing historical novelizations!? Wacky. I knew him from his scifi days - I can generally recommend Hyperion books 1 & 2 (but skip 3 & 4)... some of the only reasonable scifi I've found since I abandoned the genre after high school. And it's got some good Catholics-take-over-the-universe subplots for those that like such things. It's definitely on the space opera end of the spectrum, but still surprisingly entertaining. I'll have to check out some of his newer stuff. Dan Simmons writing historical novelizations!? Wacky. I knew him from his scifi days – I can generally recommend Hyperion books 1 & 2 (but skip 3 & 4)… some of the only reasonable scifi I’ve found since I abandoned the genre after high school. And it’s got some good Catholics-take-over-the-universe subplots for those that like such things. It’s definitely on the space opera end of the spectrum, but still surprisingly entertaining.

I’ll have to check out some of his newer stuff.

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