The Plot Against America by Philip Roth really disturbed and intrigued me…up until the ending. This alternative history proposes that the anti-Semitic Charles Lindbergh beat FDR in the 1940 election to become President of the United States. What happens to the Jewish population of the USA, and do we fight against Hitler and the Nazis?
Archive: May 6, 2008
I’ve mentioned before how uninspired I find a lot of children’s fantasy. Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series is an absolute exception to this. I was hooked from the first book, the absolutely superb The Lightning Thief. Yes, there are some obvious parallels to Harry Potter, but I was too absorbed in the series to notice.