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Oct. 27th, 2007 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonionaySpent this morning having a conversation with Keffy by typing something up and having our computers speak function say it for us.
Spent last night with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kehrli and kaerfel reading the first few paragraphs of all the novels lying around, and deciding which ones would make us keep reading.
And today, I finished The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. It's a good and unnerving book about isolation. As the author says, it's anti-war, but not anti-soldier.
The portrayal of homosexuality confused me, since I wasn't sure if it was meant to be derogatory or satirical. (Eventually everyone becomes gay for the sake of population control.) As I read it, I got the impression that Haldeman just didn't understand gays very well, like most people probably didn't back then (early 70s).
The character made me think he might have a similar worldview as my dad, and in fact, a lot of his descriptions of encountering gays in the military sound the same as my dad's. There's a sort of bewilderment at the whole phenomenon. Not hostility, just an uncomfortable WTF?
So of course I had to search the internet, and found this interview with Haldeman and he sounds like a pretty darn cool guy.
Spent last night with
kehrli and kaerfel reading the first few paragraphs of all the novels lying around, and deciding which ones would make us keep reading.And today, I finished The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. It's a good and unnerving book about isolation. As the author says, it's anti-war, but not anti-soldier.
The portrayal of homosexuality confused me, since I wasn't sure if it was meant to be derogatory or satirical. (Eventually everyone becomes gay for the sake of population control.) As I read it, I got the impression that Haldeman just didn't understand gays very well, like most people probably didn't back then (early 70s).
The character made me think he might have a similar worldview as my dad, and in fact, a lot of his descriptions of encountering gays in the military sound the same as my dad's. There's a sort of bewilderment at the whole phenomenon. Not hostility, just an uncomfortable WTF?
So of course I had to search the internet, and found this interview with Haldeman and he sounds like a pretty darn cool guy.
