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I think the discussion of ideological fiction was spot on. I have been reading Ringo's zombie post-apocalyptic series, which I've found tolerable despite the ideology, and a Michael Moore fat joke made by a 14 year old girl  . Still, I wonder about my coworker who I believe rates Ringo as one of his favorite authors. |
John Ringo came quite close to falling into the category of "authors who write books I hate myself for liking." And then I thought of the people I knew who were like the narrator and how I really can't stand them.
This was my impression of The Last Centurion.
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It's written in a breezy, foul-mouthed, funny conversational style which is a good thing because if it wasn't there would be no way I would have finished the thing. It was initially time-suckingly readable despite the (conservative) political ranting (and there were issues that I did and didn't agree with the narrator about there)--but then as things went on I realized the narrator was one of those annoying people who always thinks they know everything and Ringo set up the plot situation so that he was also Always Right and you know how irritating that can be. And there's some pretty vicious stuff here thrown at liberals and at Hillary Clinton (present under a thinly disguised pseudonym as "the B*tch" who destroyed the US Mao-style. I did wonder at one point whether the narrator was being set up as unreliable because of some remarks he made about his Persian concubine (don't ask) which seemed contradictory, but no, I think Ringo expects us to think this jerk is the ultimate hero
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