![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, negative reviews can't affect either Smith himself or his gazillions of fans, meaning that book sales won't suffer because of my visceral dislike. What?" This is all enough to make me want to cry. ![]() Of people who read this nonsense come away thinking, "Now I know all aboutĪncient Egypt! Golly, what a romantic time it was-never a dull moment, People freakin' bowing, spouting chivalric nonsense all over the place-at least Smith should have had the decency to set this tale where it belongs, in medieval Europe, and not slapped the highly suspect fig leaf of 'ancient Egypt' over it! Worst of all, the millions (that's right, millions) Story has the cloying stink of European high medieval fantasy epic all over it. Smith is writing for you, not bloody likely! This entire "Egyptian" For all you wondering if the subaltern can ever really speak/get outįrom under the thumb of their former colonial oppressors, all I can say is, if ![]() "civilized" (=white) people man bestrode the world like a colossus.īut wait! How can that be, since this is ostensibly an 'Egyptian' story? Yeah-it And speaking of Orientalism and Clavell, Smith, it seems, isĪnother card-carrying Orientalist dreaming longingly of the halcyon days when the ![]()
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