Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates is going somewhere with this review of “Horses of God.” And surprise! It might just be somewhere devoid of decency and sanity. Wait for it …
Tragic simplicity to the boys' collective story in "Horses of God"–where there is no hope, meaning is wrested through violence "for God."
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) May 15, 2014
Like "Ajami" & "Omar," "Horses of God" should be seen by all those to whom these achingly real individuals would seem "foreign"–"Other."
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) May 15, 2014
"Horses of God" is both a passionate political statement & an intimate portrait of friendship in a hellish shantytown in Casablanca.
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) May 15, 2014
Most stirring moments bring the slum-dweller/ suicide-bomber boys through the streets of glamorous Casablanca for the first & last times.
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) May 15, 2014
And here it is:
We are so very superior to the "suicide-bomber" cult–are we? US does not transform young vulnerable hopeless into human weapons of war?
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) May 15, 2014
Is Oates asking if the U.S. military is morally superior to Islamic terrorists? And what exactly is she suggesting about the men and women who serve?
If we’re playing the “just askin’ questions” game, we have some more: Is she out of her freaking head or simply wallowing in the repulsive, obscene sty that passes as her mind? Maybe a little of both?
@JoyceCarolOates actually, yes. We are far superior in that our soldiers are not specifically trained to mass murder innocent civilians.
— neenie (@deneengove) May 15, 2014
Hey, maybe Joyce is just trying to get back on Gawker’s good side.
It is long past time for @JoyceCarolOates to delete her Twitter account. http://t.co/LSWxNquNzY
— Gawker (@Gawker) May 13, 2014
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