[ SECRET POST #3035 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3035 ⌋

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Comments

[ariakas]

I honestly thought I was all but alone in geekdom in being less than impressed with WWZ. It was the worst all possible worlds: woefully unrealistic yet deadly serious, featuring other nations yet painfully Ameri-centric and slotting the rest in with merry band of stereotypes, features only two chapters from a female perspective - both of whom are of course utter cliches.

[ill_omened]

There are literally tens of us.

You've hit on my major peeves with it pretty well, though in a more general sense it encapsulates everything about a certain type of nerd culture that irritates me. As you said it's both ridiculous whilst attempting to be incredibly po faced, and from a certain libertarian american perspective.

[(Anonymous)]

And every single character talks exactly the same way. Oh, some of the "tough" characters might throw in a couple extra swears or "Look! Look! I did my research!" military terms, but they've still all got the same vocabulary and diction.

It's almost entirely a local pride thing, but the thing that annoyed me the most about the parts I read -- I bounced around to the chapters that looked the most interesting and realized quite quickly that none of them actually were -- was that the military character who was talking about everything in footnoted jargon referred to the aircraft storage facility at the Davis-Monthan Air Force base by its official name. I've lived near it my entire life and never heard anyone not call it "the boneyard."

[(Anonymous)]

A day late in replying? It's never too late to join the "WWZ wasn't that good" club/support group.

The parts set in the Middle East were agonizing. And I'm not sure it's possible for the author to let a woman so much as be mentioned in the story without being called a bitch (or worse) at some point. Especially the newsanchor who was supposed to be the one who blew the lid off the whole thing. A veritable Murrow, and all we know about her is that she's a "cunt" for doing what she did? Meanwhile, have another chapter about the soldier. Great decisions, book.