I like it, not the America wank and the story line but i like it, so ban me for it.
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I like it, not the America wank and the story line but i like it, so ban me for it.
I really wish I had the sequel where he LIVED the Tom Clancy novel
Roma Eterna is published, its about a surviving Roman Empire but nearly all of the history in it is basically the same with the numbers filed off, oh and then the Jewish population launches a rocket to find the chosen land.
I lurked on their forum from time to time before they made the politics section members-only. It was a constant wankfest of far-right groupthink. I was surprised to see that some otherwise respectable people, like that guy who writes A Blunted Sickle, are signed up there.Well, for all that the first book isn't quite as bad, the rest of The Big One is pretty terrible.
People are going to disagree with your politics David, there tends to have to be more then that, IMO for a work to be truely bad.
I would agree with all of that. I’m just saying it’s being Right Wing isn’t enough which I feel isn’t what Hendryk is arguing.I'd suggest that if the reader cannot suspend disbelief and become immersed in the fiction's world, it's bad.
One thing I had in common with Thatcher; we both liked a Frederick Forsyth book. That guy's a Tory but he knows how to spin a yarn.
By comparison, a Chapman Pincher book is relentless in evangelistic conservatism. Never for a moment can you forget you are reading a Rightist parable.
NDCR is like the latter, but turned up to 11 because of the location on a message board, with each chapter bracketed by good ol' boys a-whoopin' & a-hollerin'.
It's right wing, paranoid, poorly written, with a laundry list of political grievances clogging up the narrative. The only difference with Nuttall's dreck is the absence of rape scenes.I would agree with all of that. I’m just saying it’s being Right Wing isn’t enough which I feel isn’t what Hendryk is arguing.
It's right wing, paranoid, poorly written, with a laundry list of political grievances clogging up the narrative. The only difference with Nuttall's dreck is the absence of rape scenes.
I don't have it at hand right now, but three details I remember from the story are pretty representative of the book as a whole: the author laments that breastfeeding in public is legal; when the protagonist tries to help an old lady cross the street, she calls the PC police for being disable-shamed; and students are taught that Hitler was really a misunderstood early advocate of a united Europe.
It wasn't the first nor the last time that the EU was explicitly tarred with the Nazi brush, and it's something I take very personally.Holy fucking shit, I would think the author would've been a fan of Hitler in the 30's despise using him as a strawman of the PC EU bureaucrats.
It wasn't the first nor the last time that the EU was explicitly tarred with the Nazi brush, and it's something I take very personally.
There's a brand of radical right-wingers who have a complex relationship with Nazism. It's like NDCR where the author puts former SS officers in charge (as well as assorted fascists and other far-right extremists), but strenuously denies he has any admiration for Nazism.
Even then there are TLs out there in which Hitler is slightly saner and/or the Nazis aren't antisemitic, and somehow it makes them all right.I mean I think its because Nazism in essence failed I mean if the Nazis either won out or stopped after Munich you would get more open defenders.
Even then there are TLs out there in which Hitler is slightly saner and/or the Nazis aren't antisemitic, and somehow it makes them all right.
And as far as bad TLs are concerned, I think most of us will agree that Harrison's Stars and Stripes trilogy deserves at least a honorary mention.
I thankfully haven't read that one. I find dystopia for dystopia's sake uninteresting.Would For All Time count or is it a too much of a parody?
Out of morbid curiosity, I'm having a look at the first NDCR thread. The author dutifully name-drops every far-right figure of the second half of the 20th century, and always in a positive light. Especially if they were former SS, like Kurt Waldheim--it's like he gets a boner out of redeeming SS officers, even if he has to pull them out of geriatric care to give them active duty again.Various Fascist or fascist like regimes come to power or gain toeholds in the Political mainstream. George Lincoln Rockwell gives up on being an American Nazi, West Germany brings back the monarchy and puts its army in the hand of literal SS War Criminals because they said they were sorry
The Congressman strikes me as a guy that hides Far Right Politics behind a thinly veiled wall of conservatism.
I’ve always wondered how he wasn’t banned yet.
I was unaware of that guy and, now that I've looked him up, I wish I still was. Is the acid bath thing from The York Deviation?Sean Gabb is, and he was tugging at his todger while describing Michael Foot and Ted Heath downing rent boys in acid baths.
The Churchill Memorandum. Ask @Skinny87 for more details.I was unaware of that guy and, now that I've looked him up, I wish I still was. Is the acid bath thing from The York Deviation?