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Expansion thingy that I can't make work
Oct. 4th, 2010 08:57 pmIt's a Seagate Expansion Portable Drive. Any advice on getting stuff onto it?
Oct. 4th, 2010
The editor, David Bergman, chose short stories that challenge and disturb. Which is a quite reasonable approach to a collection, but I was so put off by the first story in the collection that I could not appreciate the whole.
Keith Banner's "Holding Hands for Safety" is the lead piece in the collection, and as far as I am concerned it is not really a story about human beings but about a world universally populated by sociopaths. Not one single character is anything other than physically, morally and intellectually repugnant. The two gay characters are possibly even more repellant than the others, but only because you see more of them on screen. Even the murder victim is repulsive. So Bergman succeeded in disturbing me, but frankly I see little value in creating a world which bears zero resemblance to the world anyone not in a warzone knows.
Despite being so put off by Banner's work, there were stories of value in the collection. Reginald Harris' "A Tour of the Collection" was technically interesting, and Greg Johnson's "The Death of Jackie Kennedy" was moving. Nonetheless, the collection is not a keeper.
Keith Banner's "Holding Hands for Safety" is the lead piece in the collection, and as far as I am concerned it is not really a story about human beings but about a world universally populated by sociopaths. Not one single character is anything other than physically, morally and intellectually repugnant. The two gay characters are possibly even more repellant than the others, but only because you see more of them on screen. Even the murder victim is repulsive. So Bergman succeeded in disturbing me, but frankly I see little value in creating a world which bears zero resemblance to the world anyone not in a warzone knows.
Despite being so put off by Banner's work, there were stories of value in the collection. Reginald Harris' "A Tour of the Collection" was technically interesting, and Greg Johnson's "The Death of Jackie Kennedy" was moving. Nonetheless, the collection is not a keeper.