Cuz I'm Never Really Done Writing
One more thing. . .
Also while I was in B&N, I came across this book I had heard a lot about, Assassination Vacation by some chick. Apparently, the author saw the very same production of Assassins that we did, up in MA, and became quite interested in the subject matter. Hm, doesn't sound like anyone I know! Anyway, she decided to go visit historical sites having to do with the deaths of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley and then write about how crazy their assassins were.
I had read a lot of good reviews of this book, but I never saw it anywhere and the author isn't any kind of historian, so I figured it would just be fluff.
I was right.
I found the book today and flipped through it. From what I could tell, she merely gives short explanations of what happened and then details her trips to the various historical sites. I didn't really look at where she went, though I did see something about a Garfield memorial.
Of course I HAD to flip to the Czolgosz chapter and of course, one of the first sentences I saw: "The anarchist who shot--" ::buzzer!:: Sorry, wrong answer! If I could bitch slap every author who's made that statement, I wouldn't have a hand left. >;0
And she further pissed me off by writing off Emma Goldman as some kind of crackpot for so fervently believing in, as she put it, the "childish" theory of anarchism.
GAH! True anarchism would be the antithesis of childishness. I mean yes, believing that it could ever come to fruition on a large-scale is a very idealistic point of view, but still. (Then again, the author mentioned something like "I'm more of a 10 Commandments kind of girl myself. . ." and I don't know if she was joking, but that could explain it :p) It made me mad enough to put the book down and leave the store, haha.
Okay, now I'm going back to reading.
Also while I was in B&N, I came across this book I had heard a lot about, Assassination Vacation by some chick. Apparently, the author saw the very same production of Assassins that we did, up in MA, and became quite interested in the subject matter. Hm, doesn't sound like anyone I know! Anyway, she decided to go visit historical sites having to do with the deaths of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley and then write about how crazy their assassins were.
I had read a lot of good reviews of this book, but I never saw it anywhere and the author isn't any kind of historian, so I figured it would just be fluff.
I was right.
I found the book today and flipped through it. From what I could tell, she merely gives short explanations of what happened and then details her trips to the various historical sites. I didn't really look at where she went, though I did see something about a Garfield memorial.
Of course I HAD to flip to the Czolgosz chapter and of course, one of the first sentences I saw: "The anarchist who shot--" ::buzzer!:: Sorry, wrong answer! If I could bitch slap every author who's made that statement, I wouldn't have a hand left. >;0
And she further pissed me off by writing off Emma Goldman as some kind of crackpot for so fervently believing in, as she put it, the "childish" theory of anarchism.
GAH! True anarchism would be the antithesis of childishness. I mean yes, believing that it could ever come to fruition on a large-scale is a very idealistic point of view, but still. (Then again, the author mentioned something like "I'm more of a 10 Commandments kind of girl myself. . ." and I don't know if she was joking, but that could explain it :p) It made me mad enough to put the book down and leave the store, haha.
Okay, now I'm going back to reading.
posted by Erica at 9:12 PM
3 Comments:
:begin sarcasm: Yeah, because we all know how well the 10 commandments have worked out eliminating crime, murder and all wrong doing, not like that childish anarchy that's never even been tried :end sarcasm: haha ;)
Gotta love "amateur" historians, might as well be amateur idiots sometimes!
-Travis
Just checking again. . .not getting emails when people comment. >:(
Make anarchy ignoramuses read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin. It's a novel, so even the gotta-have-a-plot contigent will be able to get through it.
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