DailyKos Review
This morning TeacherKen over at DailyKos posted one hell of a review of Republic: A Novel of America's Future. For those of you who aren't aware of it, Kos is the powerhouse of blogs, with more than 100,000 daily visitors. The exiting news? By the end of the night, the book had jumped to the top ten new releases on Amazon, with a sales rank in the low 2000s. Wow.
Of course, we know that will drop -- temporary peaks like that are pretty cool, but I'm in this for the long haul, and that means growing my audience one reader at a time. Starting with you: if you haven't picked up your copy yet, now is the time.
I'm only going to quote a couple of paragraphs here, you can check out the full review (and the many, many comments) here.
We live in a time where we have seen people resort to domestic violence because of their grievances. We have had the assassination of abortion providers, the bombing of clinics. We have seen groups establish themselves as "militias." Timothy McVeigh was moved to his terrorist act because of what had happened in Waco. We had a shooting at Ruby Ridge. We have had lynchings of people because of their race, their sexual orientation, their appearance. We do not live in a nation where the level of trust - of our government or of each other - is something that inspires confidence in our personal security.
I am going to urge you to read the book. It flows, it will not take you all that long to go through the 331 pages. It will disturb you. It should.
Perhaps the image Sheehan-Miles offers us may seem extreme, unlikely. But in a time when we have seen our basic beliefs about our nation, our rights, our government, challenged and undercut, perhaps we need to at least contemplate the consequences if we do not challenge the erosion of our basic liberties even in the name of security. And if we do not understand how deep some grievances can be, how disconnected some people may become from our society, then this novel of America’s future may be far more prophetic than we might otherwise imagine.
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