I do think the Farthing series (is that the umbrella title/nick?) _is_ so creepifyingly convincing, as you put it, mainly because it's sort of so quiet and believable and not dwelling on the obvious horror, and it just is all the more gruesome for not being some kind of It Can't Happen Here/My Country Tis of Thee takeover propaganda (there was some really awful short film/drugstore paperback, when I was an adolescent, about how the Soviets took over and came into a grade school classroom and had the kids gleefully hating the Pledge and tearing up the flag in like 10 seconds. So clearly the solution is: More indoctrination!). I think it also sort of permanently ruined Brat Farrar for me, but that's a tradeoff I'll take any day.
The Matrix movie had me at Laurence Fisburne telling Keanu Reeves "You're ready for your training." Oh, training sequences love.
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Date: 2008-11-13 12:37 am (UTC)I do think the Farthing series (is that the umbrella title/nick?) _is_ so creepifyingly convincing, as you put it, mainly because it's sort of so quiet and believable and not dwelling on the obvious horror, and it just is all the more gruesome for not being some kind of It Can't Happen Here/My Country Tis of Thee takeover propaganda (there was some really awful short film/drugstore paperback, when I was an adolescent, about how the Soviets took over and came into a grade school classroom and had the kids gleefully hating the Pledge and tearing up the flag in like 10 seconds. So clearly the solution is: More indoctrination!). I think it also sort of permanently ruined Brat Farrar for me, but that's a tradeoff I'll take any day.
The Matrix movie had me at Laurence Fisburne telling Keanu Reeves "You're ready for your training." Oh, training sequences love.