Amazons, Oh My!

[handful_ofdust]

My FearZone column about Bethany's Sin just went live, here (http://www.fearzone.com/blog/bethanys-sin). Tell me if it makes you want to burn off one of your breasts with a hot axe-blade, or what...

Comments

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Hey, good review. I remember reading Bethany's Sin in my twenties, thought it was delightfully way over the top. Loved Night Boat too.

The discovery of Amazon culture near the Black Sea was, and is, muy exciting. Have you read any of Barbara Walker's books? She gives an excellent accounting of feminine socio-political history, including the Amazons and how they chose to become pregnant. It's not nearly as bloody and cruel as what most men would like to believe, men who think they are graced with God-given dominance.

[sovay]

That is cracktasmic.

[phantom_wolfboy]

McCammon's back catalogue is a wonder. Most of it reads, as you note, like a poor-man's Stephen King, but I always felt that Bethany's Sin was McCammon's reply to Ira Levin and the Stepford Wives.

If you haven't read 'em yet, read Boy's Life and Gone South--they're when McCammon finally found his own voice.