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Conservative Swordfighters Club on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 12:37:25 AM
"tigerheart" 2008 fantasy novel by peter david
the liberal messages, few and palatable, hardly detract from this excellent mythic novel, a re-imagining of "peter pan" by the co-author of another re-imagining of peter pan, "peter and the starcatchers."
a couple examples of liberal messages:
on page 224, after the indian princess says that she as leader should lead the charge in battle, protagonist paul remarks to gwenny, "You know, I think if our leaders had that same philosophy, there'd be a lot fewer wars fought."
and on page 237:
"He wondered how the Piccas could have suffered at the hands of those whom they were now imploring for help. But then he considered all the 'acts of God' that fell upon people who then went right on praising that same God in the highest..."
not so bad, eh?
suitable for kids.
thus ends my review of the novel from a conservative point of view.
now I will digress for a moment and mention something a passage in the novel reminded me of -- the appropriate analogy that conservatives are adults and liberals are children.
liberals consider conservatives to be hate-filled, just as, on page 215, the peter pan character (here referred to simply as "The Boy") says, "That's what being an adult is all about. Hatred."
The Boy goes on, on page 216, to describe his (peter pan's) view of children (good) versus adults (bad), and it well describes the exactly-backward liberal view of the world:
"When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult... then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending."
--Swordfish