So, I am posting it.
Let me know what you all think.
A young woman who witnesses a murder that starts a Muslim rebellion in Amsterdam, which touches off riots throughout Europe and leads to the Great Eurabian War--World War III.
This is her diary.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Blog Novel: Amsterdam 2012
I can't vouch for this. HerRoyalWhyness sent it to me. I don't have time to read it right now, but I didn't want to let it slip away into the memory hole either.
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Pastorius,
I didn't read much of it, it looks rather interesting. Too bad its laid out like a blog with the later entries first. It would be better written if it was laid out more like a novel, Earliest at the top of the screen, latest at the bottom.
Well-written, plausible, utterly terrifying. I gave up on the blog format and read it from the bottom up. Skimmed, really, and it's going to be hard to go back and read the whole thing, plus it will probably keep me awake half the night.
With the exception of one character who is absent for most of the book, these people are groping blindly, they don't know a fraction of what we do about Islam. This makes it all too realistic as they try to grasp what is happening and deal with it. And as you'll know if you read it in the blog format top down, there's no happy ending either.
Thanks for posting this Pastorius.
Fiction is not an interest of mine. The last novel I read was over a decade ago, Herman Wouk's "Inside, Outside".
This topic, however, does captivate me. I glanced at the synopsis and began reading. Before I knew it, I was hooked and now I'm up to date.
A new chapter is added each day.
Today's chapter is sultry. The prior two chapters provided quite a dose of reality. So far, this author manages to keep my attention.
HRW
Revere Rides Again,
I'm not sure, but I don't think Ruth Francisco is done writing her story yet.
Probably not, that's a bit of a cliffhanger she leaves us with.
I'm glad you guys had time to read it.
I've simply been too busy lately.
My concern is I don't want to post any fascist war porn.
If anyone gets the feeling that that is what this is, please tell me.
It will be a few days before I have time to get to it.
Definitely neither fascist nor war porn. Think "One Second After" with all the jihad background filled in. Not the isolation of an EMP strike but approaching a similar level of catastrophe.
Today's episode slops into anti-bushisms . . . yuk . . .
quote:" The United States Army has been just as unsuccessful at fighting guerrilla war in American as it was in Iraq and Vietnam. They are reluctant to use tanks and bombs in their own cities, against their own people. I wonder if this war might have never happened if they had had the same qualms about killing Iraqi civilians and destroying Iraqi homes."
If this is the direction this author takes, my recommendation of this novel immediately goes to the trashbin.
This is one reason I rarely read novels . I have zero patience for blithering nonsense - even fiction.
HRW
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