Goodreads Review
Jan. 15th, 2019 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoPeter Pan
Part of why I'm reading this is research for a LoEG game where I'm playing Jas. Hook. Part of it is, much like Oz, I'm fascinated by the dystopian nature of the world. I'm firmly in the camp that Peter is a sociopath and that as well as boys, he's kidnapped sailors and 'redskins' and very possibly fairies to populate his kingdom. Oh yes, and he also kills the Lost Boys when they get too old. Sort of like Bill Mumy in the Cornfield Twilight Zone episode. And I take a certain delight in seeing Barrie relate this in a very Edwardian fashion. I laugh out louded over the author's conflicting views of Mary Darling, and was uncomfortable over the racist bits.
Part of why I'm reading this is research for a LoEG game where I'm playing Jas. Hook. Part of it is, much like Oz, I'm fascinated by the dystopian nature of the world. I'm firmly in the camp that Peter is a sociopath and that as well as boys, he's kidnapped sailors and 'redskins' and very possibly fairies to populate his kingdom. Oh yes, and he also kills the Lost Boys when they get too old. Sort of like Bill Mumy in the Cornfield Twilight Zone episode. And I take a certain delight in seeing Barrie relate this in a very Edwardian fashion. I laugh out louded over the author's conflicting views of Mary Darling, and was uncomfortable over the racist bits.
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Date: 2019-01-15 07:32 pm (UTC)