OMGWTF JOHN RINGO NO WTF WTF WTF

[feuervogel]

I present to you a review (by someone else) of Watch on the Rhine, a book in which John Ringo (and some other less famous dude) try to convince us that the N*zis weren't really all that bad.

What.

The.

Fuck.

(Apparently, also, the Bundeskanzler defends the Waffen-SS. OMGWTF JESUS CHRIST NO. Unless the NPD managed somehow to get enough votes to lead a coalition, no Chancellor would say something like that. (Think it? Maybe. Say it out loud? Political suicide.))

I'm offended that this book exists. Ugh.

Comments

[patetico]

What in the ever living hell.

I can imagine if they were just...hapless German soldiers after a few years on the Eastern front but the SS? No way.

[annathepiper]

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WHAT?

[thady]

WTF?!?

Even the regular Wehrmacht helped with the genocide! The SS was so much worse!

I can barely breathe for rage.

Being German I'm a little more sensitive about the depicition of Nazis, but even so... There isn't anything that isn't wrong with this!

[feuervogel]

Right? It's just, like, UGH. So offensive.

I have the opportunity to get a free copy (I have a friend who works at Baen), but I'm torn between whether I want to read it for the trainwreck value or whether I'll just throw it at the wall in 2 pages.

[krait]

Uh. Wow.

*blinks* Every time I think I've exhausted all uses for my OH JOHN RINGO NO tag, he comes up with something ELSE I need to use it for.

In this case, urgently need to use it for. There is not enough NO in the WORLD, John Ringo... Not for this.

[krait]

In an attempt to wrestle some tiny speck of goodness out of this debacle, however, I must thank you for the link to that review, because I think I want to marry that reviewer.

"Baen Books has, even going back to the Reagan era, long been SF's home for jingoistic, hyper-violent right-wing power fantasies. [...] But even I never would have thought Baen would go this far. To think that any audience outside of hate groups monitored by the FBI would be attracted to a story in which the Waffen-SS is given a chance to "redeem" themselves borders on dementia. The book's added indulgences involving routine stereotyping and bashing of "liberals" — more accurately, the far right's straw-man image of the antiwar left — are merely the icing on an already stale cake."

That? That is pretty much everything I have said about my recent mil-SF reading experiences, rounded up and made more cohesive than my various scattered comments and musings.

[feuervogel]

*nod* If the right wing were at ALL interested in engaging in honest discussion, they wouldn't set up straw-liberals and "debate" them. I mean, no, I'm not pro-war, and I think we'd be a lot better off if we didn't just invade other countries for bullshit, made-up reasons. But that doesn't mean I'm anti-military, or anti-defense, or anti-helping our allies if they're attacked.

[kurai-seraphim.livejournal.com]

At this point I'm pretty sure he's a troll who has realized that writing the worst possible things in the world is cost effective and appeals to a lot of people who probably actually take it seriously and should probably be thrown in volcanoes.

[feuervogel]

You may be on to something, there...

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

Yes. Based on the excerpts of this dude's shit I've seen by way of Kevin, I reckon he is having a grand old time fucking with people.