Kristine Toliver

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For me, trying to bring alive the horrors of the past can't include including yourself, a present-day writer, in the persecuted ("us" and "we") because that makes me your murderous, unscrupulous oppressor. I wasn't born then. I had no influence on how anyone behaved in the nineteenth century. It's a plea/play/ploy for empathy and understanding, but today's readers don't have the mindset of people who lived it. I prefer historical research and gaining an understanding of events that were so critical and momentous to all who lived them. For that reason, I stopped reading in the prologue.

There There

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I loved the movie, and I bawled at the end. In the end, though, she was saved by a man who happened upon her. The point of confronting the wilderness is that you yourself must find a way to survive and meet your human needs. But I get she was seriously depressed and probably would have died otherwise. But that is real life in those scenarios. I love the scene when she yells, "This isn't working!" That's when I yelled, "Try harder!" The point is self reliance, not being rescued by chance by a dude. <shrug> Just my take.

Land

It was mostly fun to watch, but the weeks of near kisses (touching faces) and how long it took the two women to take their bras off (that is, to consummate their lust) was unrealistic and telling. I can understand what drives Jean, but it sometimes seemed like the inevitable was drawn out again and again and again for production purposes. Same with the other near-adulterous relationship... seemed more drawn out than what you might see in real life. Maybe it's just me., ha.

Gypsy

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