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carolynf 's review for:
The Emperor's Blades
by Brian Staveley
A creative and well-constructed world, but the underpinning philosophy is Nietzsche + Edgar Rice Burroughs. I don't enjoy Nietzsche or Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Lessons learned from this book:
1) Emotions make you weak. Your bodily needs makes you weak. To become anything other than a victim you need to deaden yourself. Be ruthless. Sacrifice the innocent for the greater good. Accept pain and be willing to torture your body to be a better fighter/monk. Be totally obedient to your teachers and accept their sadistic teaching techniques because it is all for the best really.
2) All women are sexy. Some are sexy and angry, some are sexy and have your back in a fight, some are sexy and dopey and a bit over their head. Most are unstable and need either actual rescuing or just someone to tell them what to do. On the rare occasion when a woman is encountered in a leadership role, she is only around for about two sentences, gets no backstory, and her physical description is not complementary. Definitely not even close to passing the Bechdel test.
Lessons learned from this book:
1) Emotions make you weak. Your bodily needs makes you weak. To become anything other than a victim you need to deaden yourself. Be ruthless. Sacrifice the innocent for the greater good. Accept pain and be willing to torture your body to be a better fighter/monk. Be totally obedient to your teachers and accept their sadistic teaching techniques because it is all for the best really.
2) All women are sexy. Some are sexy and angry, some are sexy and have your back in a fight, some are sexy and dopey and a bit over their head. Most are unstable and need either actual rescuing or just someone to tell them what to do. On the rare occasion when a woman is encountered in a leadership role, she is only around for about two sentences, gets no backstory, and her physical description is not complementary. Definitely not even close to passing the Bechdel test.