At one point I think he mentions being in the Corps. Do Army guys refer to it like that? I wondered if it were exclusively a Marine thing.
I felt like the character claimed to be good at adapting, but wasn't really. I don't know if that were intentional. Someone young, in good shape, with certain skills..I'd think they'd try to find work as a cop or a security guard or a bodyguard or something. Or go work in a garage or a machine shop...I felt like there was some unstated extra level of dysfunction there.
Also, for whatever reason in my mind I assumed the character was female, until he's explicitly identified as male. That's not good or bad, just something I noticed as I was reading.
It reminds me a bit of some books by Stephen Barnes, Streetlethal/ (especially) Gorgon Child, and Firedance. They're not necessarily the greatest books in the world (there's enough repetitive fighting in them to fill a season of Dragonball Z) and other weirdness. But there is an interesting thread through the books about struggling to find meaning in a life designed specifically for violence whennot all aspect of life are well served by the application of violence. What warriors are when there's no war going on, what the real, or not real intersections of masculinity and violence are (there are also prominent female and intersex characters dealing with this)...they might be worth checking out. As I said, Gorgon Child is the middle book but my favorite of the three.
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Date: 2011-06-13 02:22 am (UTC)At one point I think he mentions being in the Corps. Do Army guys refer to it like that? I wondered if it were exclusively a Marine thing.
I felt like the character claimed to be good at adapting, but wasn't really. I don't know if that were intentional. Someone young, in good shape, with certain skills..I'd think they'd try to find work as a cop or a security guard or a bodyguard or something. Or go work in a garage or a machine shop...I felt like there was some unstated extra level of dysfunction there.
Also, for whatever reason in my mind I assumed the character was female, until he's explicitly identified as male. That's not good or bad, just something I noticed as I was reading.
It reminds me a bit of some books by Stephen Barnes, Streetlethal/ (especially) Gorgon Child, and Firedance. They're not necessarily the greatest books in the world (there's enough repetitive fighting in them to fill a season of Dragonball Z) and other weirdness. But there is an interesting thread through the books about struggling to find meaning in a life designed specifically for violence whennot all aspect of life are well served by the application of violence. What warriors are when there's no war going on, what the real, or not real intersections of masculinity and violence are (there are also prominent female and intersex characters dealing with this)...they might be worth checking out. As I said, Gorgon Child is the middle book but my favorite of the three.