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Sep

Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel by Dean Koontz

   Posted by: Jim

                                   This is not a story about the Frankenstein monster but about the monster Frankenstein. Just what kind of gall and arrogance does it take to believe you can create life in your own image and likeness? How much more is needed to believe you can do a better job than God?

            Mr. Koontz takes on these questions and does a very credible job answering them.  The Frankenstein monster, now more than two hundred years old is in little evidence. The hero and heroine are two New Orleans cops. These two very real and human characters are caught up in the bizarre plan to wipe out the human race and replace us with “New and better people” cooked up in Dr Frankenstein’s lab.   

            This is not a light hearted, try and scare you for fun, story. This is a very serious comment on how we are wiping out the old, and filling it with the new. It is a story about heedlessly ignoring out humanity and being blind to the consequences of our planning the future. I especially like the way Mr. Koontz details how unintended consequences can bite you …..Well just about everywhere.

            This is the first in a trilogy that becomes a series I highly recommend This is a very good read, a well written story and has something important to say. Thank you Mr. Koontz.

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27
Oct

“1984” by George Orwell

   Posted by: Jim

Big brother is here and he is us.        

 

     If a little old lady hits a guy with her rolled up newspaper its on YouTube that night. If someone uses a word others don’t like, it’s around the world in a thousand blogs in a moment. There are cameras everywhere and everyone is watching.

            Most readers are familiar with the story of “1984″. I read it about three times for a college paper I received a “C” on and a couple times since then. The government is big brother watching and controlling our every move. Everyone must conform and believe what they are being told. Sound familiar?

        I don’t believe the government has the time, interest, or resources to be ”Big Brother” but we do.

            I think it interesting that Mr. Orwell chose sex as the main objection of the totalitarian big brother. Of course it was love that had to be excised from the brain of the two lovers. We can’t have people actually regarding each other as more important than they do our message and what we want them to believe.

            Today of course sex is more than OK, it has to be accepted in any and all forms, but just don’t mention love, or caring or consideration between the partners. These ideas have to be kept shunted away in romantic comedies because they have no place in the real world

   I wonder, if and when, the dust settles and one political side or the other wins, if you will be able to disagree with anything even in the privacy of your own home without seeing it on the net. After all you bought that nifty new camera phone for your child and….. 

 

So for Halloween read a really scary book.

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