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Occupation

by Jeff Dawson (Goodreads Author)

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Mark miller said: " First and foremost I have to say the book is fulfilling every expectation I had going into it. I am at the beginning of chapter five, Skirmishes, where I anticipate the story changes from one of circumstance, planning, collusion, and double dealing i First and foremost I have to say the book is fulfilling every expectation I had going into it. I am at the beginning of chapter five, Skirmishes, where I anticipate the story changes from one of circumstance, planning, collusion, and double dealing into an expansion of roles in initiative of action and stance. In Darwinian terms the clans must either fight, take flight, or (the newest discovery of evolution science) stay in a possum posturing.
While both Vampire clan leaders, Nikoli and Kirilli, are mentally suspended in a hubris condition, their women seem fully aware of their precarious situation of circumstance. In regards to morality it is Kirilli who ponders more on these sensations of mortal human traits. I am also sensing patterns of imagery-possible with or without the author's or reader's conscious knowledge taken to be deeper meanings of the story's work. For example the German Nazi's, especially Major Ernst, are being represented as less than human compared to the clan of Vampires, which are not of form or substance in humanity. This creates an Alienation effect or an aesthetic distance away from the Germans. Thus the allegory represents one thing in guise of another in which the persons and actions equate with meanings outside the narrative itself. In attempting to evoke a dual interest-one in the events,characters, and setting presented and the other in the ideas they convey. The characters, events, and setting which may be historical or fictitious;the test is that these materials be so employed that they represent meanings independent of the action in the surface of the story. On one hand you have blood thirsty vampires who have walked the earth dead sucking death out of humans, but in a humane and dignified fashion with rules and conditions. All of a sudden rules, conditions, and structures they have lived by are no longer of context and meaning. The Nazi's are a new breed of vampire, possibly worse than anything they have seen and are themselves employing human coping mechanisms, such as bargaining, denial, anger, and finally I can see them accepting the fate that has been forced upon them. This is a very well written story thus far.The use of interior monologue provides a recording of the internal emotional experiences of the main characters involved which reaches downward to the nonverbal level whee images must be used to represent sensations or emotions.-Mark Miller I am savoring every part. It really is a good book. ...more "

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House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 17, 2012 12:28PM

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Rise of the Governor (The Walking Dead: Novels, #1)

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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
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― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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