That's Oedipus, You Dumbass.

[rionaleonhart]

I don't want to think about politics right now (I may never forgive my country, but at least my city's all right, I suppose), so instead I'm going to talk about THE BOOKENING, in which I desperately try to read a load of recent genre fiction on the slim chance I get a relevant job interview. There are worse tasks.

THE BOOKENING TITLE #1: This

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[littlered2]

I find this a slightly less believable young adult dystopia than the world of The Hunger Games, largely because I'm convinced the Dauntless faction would have died out within a few generations. Why would anyone ever willingly join the faction that demands that you constantly risk your life for no reason? Go and join the faction that picks apples and is nice to people, for goodness' sake.
I know very little about the Divergent universe, but still feel comfortable saying that the whole factions thing sounds ridiculous. It must have been a massive pain to implement. Also, the trappings that go along with each faction sound a bit irriting. I see from Wikipedia that "the women [of Dauntless] wear skin-tight pants, tights, tight dresses, and black boots and shoes" - what if you're really brave but quite like colours? What if you find skintight clothing uncomfortable and impractical?

This is how I'm now imagining the Duke of Wellington.

[rionaleonhart]

I suppose perhaps the skintight clothing is so it's less likely to get caught when you jump on and off moving trains, as you're apparently obliged to do quite a lot. This is such a stupid universe.

(Maybe, if you wear colours, people will think you're brave for going against Dauntless convention? Who knows?)

That series of comics is spot-on.

[clo]

Literally just commenting to say I loved The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, hurrah! I'll be interested to hear what you think; for a book that I initially thought was a Firefly rip-off, it turned out to be much more intriguing.

[rionaleonhart]

It's so much fun! And the universe is so varied and interesting!