I'll just say that I didn't take the book to be a way of saying all religion is bad. There were various ways in which Senator Ryman expressed his faith that didn't make him a crazy. I took it as a way in which a charismatic leader can pervert a faith so that it's more about us versus them than about faith. Which, actually, with bin Laden in the news again recently, is going to have me reading even more into the book now that I'm re-reading it in prep for the sequel.
But yes, little touches like retinal KA in George and Emily Ryman as "just another one of those things you live with" made the world real to me.
Mostly I kept going "No more steak? Oh, man, just chicken and fish ... I'd have to learn to like fish. I'm not sure how long I'd last." And that's not even factoring in watching out for zombies.
"I'll just say that I didn't take the book to be a way of saying all religion is bad."
I didn't either. On the other hand, when you have two strongly Christian characters, and both of those characters turn out to be aiding terrorists, then yes this is something that jumps out at me. Just like if you included two black characters and both of them ended up being bad guys, or two Muslim characters, or whatever.
The details were great, and you could tell Grant/McGuire had spent a *lot* of time thinking about all the implications and consequences of a zombiefied world...
On the one hand, I did think Tate was a little on the cartoony side, on the other hand though, the worst acts of home grown terrorism in the US have been perpetrated by religious fanatics.
I do get you. If I had a complaint about the book it was that I called Tate at the first meeting. But I'm left with the "how much of that was intentional to suck my attention off who ELSE might be involved?"
In any case, now that you've read the book, if you haven't been reading her little pre-Rising snippets on her LJ, you should go do that. It's been amazing in the sense that the history told in Feed, even with Georgia being really factual, isn't as simple as she made it out to be, since she really wasn't there.
And it actually made me feel sorry for the Mason parents.
I've caught a few of them, but didn't want to start reading until I finished Feed. The ones I've read have been good, and I need to go back and read the rest.
I'll just say that I didn't take the book to be a way of saying all religion is bad. There were various ways in which Senator Ryman expressed his faith that didn't make him a crazy. I took it as a way in which a charismatic leader can pervert a faith so that it's more about us versus them than about faith. Which, actually, with bin Laden in the news again recently, is going to have me reading even more into the book now that I'm re-reading it in prep for the sequel.
But yes, little touches like retinal KA in George and Emily Ryman as "just another one of those things you live with" made the world real to me.
Mostly I kept going "No more steak? Oh, man, just chicken and fish ... I'd have to learn to like fish. I'm not sure how long I'd last." And that's not even factoring in watching out for zombies.
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I didn't either. On the other hand, when you have two strongly Christian characters, and both of those characters turn out to be aiding terrorists, then yes this is something that jumps out at me. Just like if you included two black characters and both of them ended up being bad guys, or two Muslim characters, or whatever.
The details were great, and you could tell Grant/McGuire had spent a *lot* of time thinking about all the implications and consequences of a zombiefied world...
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In any case, now that you've read the book, if you haven't been reading her little pre-Rising snippets on her LJ, you should go do that. It's been amazing in the sense that the history told in Feed, even with Georgia being really factual, isn't as simple as she made it out to be, since she really wasn't there.
And it actually made me feel sorry for the Mason parents.
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