I can't wait to read it. I just got hold of a hard copy edition of Maia's new book. I been reading her blogs lately. I like the part where she rags on Schembri's bogus statement about guards being fed up over budget cuts enuff to want to murder kids. That was a real hoot!
Why was I sold? Well, I had made like three full pages of reply to Maia's blog on Schembri's really silly statement that received alot of harsh criticisms. Then I deleted all three pages of it after I realized that I was merely mega expounding on her very precise comment of how torture is not good enuff for the staff at boot camps who suffer from morale. So in a way she really shoved it back at Schembri and all the staff by saying thanks to Schembri for the wake up on torture that doesn't work.
But when I first started looking up Maia's work I didn't expect her to have blogs. She does though, and she's clear. I don't have the words yet to place her calm logic and right statement of facts. I'll be honest, I am not sure what to make of her. I am a survivor of Straight. I was there three years as you know I got the worst of the worst like alot of people. I want to read more on her and this book before I make any full opinion, as always you know I am a harsh skeptic like so many here.
I am still financially screwed as literal result of what Straight Incorporated has done to me so books sometimes find their way back to the store since I need money more than most. But I am hoping that this book turns out to be a gold brick that I have been waiting for, something that I can use to explain to people when they look at me stupid or turn me out when I try to explain to them what happened.
So anywho, I bought a book for my homosexual friend tonight and was like, "He got a book, I should get me on, too". The cashier walked me to the book in the Sociology/Social Sciences area of the store and bingo bango. Nice hard bound edition. Usually I hate books and only like to read the ones that have an immediate use right now. Especially school books that don't pay off until you get into a career. I am a spontaneous reader. I like gore because my life has reflected that, but gore and any horror or action that has a deep meaning and a deep cause like for example say the English Patient, or Devil's Rejects or some other deep fucking movie or a Stephen King book or for a really good read something from Karl Marx or anything on the humanities or philosophy of mind. I don't do slashers. Usually I will find a book laying around, a trashed book noone wants or that was deliberately left laying around so I could find it, and I will see if it's good. I don't really keep alot of books I guess. I keep a pile of books that I just can't seem to rid myself of since I am a packrat.
But what I'm hoping for is a good smooth read that speaks to me. If I like the book I will probably set up a reading for it at my college. I know students who will attend.
