tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post3292637492303606265..comments2023-09-02T14:13:10.364-07:00Comments on Mouse's Musings: The Cavalcade of AssholeryMousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-86066924282937317612010-10-19T18:55:30.771-07:002010-10-19T18:55:30.771-07:00Holy smokes.
Yeah, I forgot about this part when ...Holy smokes.<br /><br />Yeah, I forgot about this part when I briefly read the books a couple years back, and I really am surprised as to what complete jerks Judd and Vicki are to a younger child who needs their help.Apocalypse Reviewhttp://apocalypsereview.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-16482900469016352652010-10-19T08:44:44.777-07:002010-10-19T08:44:44.777-07:00Good lord.
It's writing like this that has ma...Good lord.<br /><br />It's writing like this that has made people stand up and soundly renounce the Rapture God, that they would prefer Hell to that one's Heaven. After seeing the sort of jerk behavior that these kids -- especially Lionel and Judd -- are engaging in, if this is rewarded then there is no justice in the LaHaye-verse.Minknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-49952722780881340142010-10-17T17:04:52.373-07:002010-10-17T17:04:52.373-07:00Hey Mouse,
I realize in rereading my post and see...Hey Mouse,<br /><br />I realize in rereading my post and seeing your follow-up that I may have given that impression. I totally did not mean to state or imply that you were making anything up. I just meant that you had brought to light an aspect that I had either not recognized or not remembered when I zipped through the series a few years back. <br /><br />That's the beautiful thing about the LaHaye/Jenkins body of work, isn't it? Just when you think you've reached the height of asshattery, you turn the page...Rubyhttp://heathencritique.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-27575575479149250222010-10-17T16:23:31.412-07:002010-10-17T16:23:31.412-07:00Before anyone asks, I thought I'd remind you t...Before anyone asks, I thought I'd remind you that I am not making any of this up. The assholish behaviour you see here is completely from the book. I did not put words in anybody's mouth that weren't already there.Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-30446282402176595972010-10-17T16:19:09.917-07:002010-10-17T16:19:09.917-07:00Oh, meta-Ryan. If only you could have shut the do...Oh, meta-Ryan. If only you could have shut the door in Lionel's face and never come back.<br /><br />I do NOT remember Lionel being such a jerk when I first read this. Ryan's supposed to be his newest best buddy, wtf? And Judd has just done what he probably would have done anyway, had his parents not died/been Raptured--gotten over his "youthful rebellion" and become just like them.<br /><br />Even Vicki is being a jerk, despite Jenkins' desperate attempt to turn her, overnight, into the mother-hen figure.Rubyhttp://heathencritique.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-19083208655779512932010-10-17T13:30:33.737-07:002010-10-17T13:30:33.737-07:00Oh, those silly, silly people who try to make the ...Oh, those silly, silly people who try to make the world a better place. When will they ever learn?<br /><br />"There's an oppressive world government out there. Soon we'll be breaking the law merely by being Christians. So don't break the law."<br /><br />I think it points up the quality of writing in these books that if you read them (as we do) without that one significant assumption - "everyone wearing an RTC badge is a Good Guy" - the whole moral sense inverts, because there aren't any real villains and the "heroes" are thoroughly offensive.Firedrakenoreply@blogger.com