Today’s Virtual Book Tour stop consists of a review of West Oversea at RBC Library. They don’t like it very much.
Just to update you on my fascinating adventures stumping around with a cane, I went back to the same store today, and the bored-looking young man who checked out my stuff made no offer to bag it for me. So the courtesy I was extended last time appears to have been a function of the niceness of that particular checkout lady.
Tapping my way across the parking lot, it occurred to me that I may qualify for a handicapped parking permit someday. And I thought, what will retailers do when all of us Baby Boomers start falling apart at once? Will they convert half their parking lots to handicapped spots, and if that happens, what will be the use of them?
And how long will the younger generations put up with us? We are a nuisance, after all, and one with an annoying sense of entitlement. Back when I was a teenager, there were paranoid fantasies about wild, sociopathic youth taking over the world and putting all the oldsters in concentration camps. Wouldn’t it be ironic (is ironic the right word? I’ve never entirely mastered its proper use, I’m ashamed to say) if we turned out to be the generation that got sent to a gulag?
Frankly, it would serve us right in a lot of ways.
Sounds like the reviewer needed to read the first books in the series.
I was born in 1966, just after the baby boom, and my siblings are all boomers. I indeed am tired of baby boomers as well as the GenXers that followed them. On the good side, though, I’ve never been marketed to as a member of a generation.
Mmmmm…I may be biased, but the reviewer seemed to me to be a lazy reader. “The names are *hard* and *too long*.” “There were too many plot lines to follow.” hmph! Try Dostoevsky!!
I agree, Carmen. I don’t understand why he thought there were too many characters, and I don’t get his complaint about names. I wonder what books he loves.
And how long will the younger generations put up with us?
As long as you are willing and able to work. Baby boomers are the first generation with user-friendly contraception, so they’re the first generation that is demographically unable to retire.
Very interesting point, Ori.
As for the reviewer, maybe he was looking for more authentically Scandinavian names, like Claudius, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.