Harry Turtledove Settling Accounts: Drive to the East (open spoilers possible)

[XT]

@Rilchiam

Nitpick: Dorothy, Moss’s daughter, was no longer a baby when she was killed; she was school-age. But yeah, that wiped out any sympathy I had for Pomeroy.

True…I didn’t mean ‘baby’ as in tiny one. Sort of ‘my little girl is my baby’. It actually makes it worse that she was school age (I think she was like 6 or something, wasn’t she?). My sympathy for Pomeroy went out the door at that point though and I was rather glad when they shot her down.

@Rilchiam

I think Dowling’s days might be numbered. More references to his unhealthy weight, plus he took time to praise Toricelli, his successor adjutant. I can see a massive coronary in the near future; I just hope he can liberate Camp Determination before that.

Maybe. Personally I think he might become one of the great generals of the war. He seems to have the mind for it, and I notice Turtledove goes out of his way to show (and imply) the deep respect his men have for him…and he seems to genuinely care about them as well.

@Rilchiam

I also wonder about Flora Blackford. Taft might become her friend-with-benefits, or he might be poised to take over her storyline if, as she speculated, she becomes the target of a people bomb.

I’m actually hoping Flora becomes the next president…even though she is one of those useless Socialists.

@Rilchiam

Turtledove and his repetitions, I swear. Okay, so we no longer have to hear about how Pomeroy hates Americans, and now we won’t have to hear about how odd Scipio looks, to whites, in his tux.* But now we’ve got, Michael Pound does not want to be an officer, Leonard O’Doull is used to speaking French, and every other character thinking “For better or for worse—no, for better and worse…”

Maybe he’s getting paid by the word?
BTW, why do they refer to Douglas Macarthur as ‘Daniel’…I assume its the same guy, though he can’t seem to find his ass with both hands in Turtledoves universe.

-XT

[Rilchiam]

@Neidhart

Don’t forget Ernest Hemingway offing himself after killing Sylvia Enos!

Oh, dagnabbit! I did forget that!

xtisme, MacArthur is probably Daniel because of one twitch upon the thread, similar to the one that made FDR Assistant Secretary of War instead of an elected official, and gave Hemingway Jake Barnes’ injury.