Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 25, 2017 3:26:32 GMT
Edge of Tomorrow - TNT is doing some kind of marathon and I love this film. I just watch it over and over again. Better than Groundhog Day.
Tom Cruise has been in some of my favorite sci-fi films.
Kindred - Just finished this book on my flight to Denver. It's technically a sci-fi book from Octavia Butler but it's really a story about slavery. I generally dislike slave stories. They tend to be too clean cut regarding who the bad guys are and who the good guys are and there's little ambiguity. This book is rilling in ambiguity and not in the way that people are conflicted with what slavery is. The slave masters are just doing their job and the slaves, while still clearly hating, don;t know a way out of it. They arenlt in search of freedom since the punishment is so severe if they try to escape.
Anyway, it's very good and is not a particularly deep read. No one will feel white guilt or black anger reading it. The story is told matter of factly although the main characters, Dana and her white husband Kevin, go through the ringer.
Highly recommend it to all.
Tom Cruise has been in some of my favorite sci-fi films.
Kindred - Just finished this book on my flight to Denver. It's technically a sci-fi book from Octavia Butler but it's really a story about slavery. I generally dislike slave stories. They tend to be too clean cut regarding who the bad guys are and who the good guys are and there's little ambiguity. This book is rilling in ambiguity and not in the way that people are conflicted with what slavery is. The slave masters are just doing their job and the slaves, while still clearly hating, don;t know a way out of it. They arenlt in search of freedom since the punishment is so severe if they try to escape.
Anyway, it's very good and is not a particularly deep read. No one will feel white guilt or black anger reading it. The story is told matter of factly although the main characters, Dana and her white husband Kevin, go through the ringer.
Highly recommend it to all.