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Jordan Castillo Price:
What do you think victor would have been like if he didn't go to camp hell ? would he have gone mad from seeing the dead or would he have adapted and somehow ended up with the same job ? (love this serie ! thank you !!!)
Jordan Castillo Price
I think about that a lot, because Camp Hell was such a formative experience for Vic, and I think he would have been entirely different if not for the coping behaviors he learned there. Essentially, he'd be a lot like Crash in certain ways.
The function of Crash in the series is not to provide relationship tension between Vic and Jacob, but rather to demonstrate what Vic might have been, had his life gone a different direction early on. The attraction between Vic and Crash has less to do with sex and more to do with mirroring. They see parts of themselves in each other, but in each case, it's the "path not taken" that they're yearning for, or at least curious about.
So as to going mad, no, that doesn't feel like Vic to me. He'd probably deny and minimize and play off the stuff he saw as being something less than what it was. No way would he have ended up as a cop. As a surly punk rocker, he hated the police on principle. He'd probably have ended up with a throwaway job that felt unsatisfying for reasons he didn't understand, and he'd take drugs more for recreation than escape.
The function of Crash in the series is not to provide relationship tension between Vic and Jacob, but rather to demonstrate what Vic might have been, had his life gone a different direction early on. The attraction between Vic and Crash has less to do with sex and more to do with mirroring. They see parts of themselves in each other, but in each case, it's the "path not taken" that they're yearning for, or at least curious about.
So as to going mad, no, that doesn't feel like Vic to me. He'd probably deny and minimize and play off the stuff he saw as being something less than what it was. No way would he have ended up as a cop. As a surly punk rocker, he hated the police on principle. He'd probably have ended up with a throwaway job that felt unsatisfying for reasons he didn't understand, and he'd take drugs more for recreation than escape.
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David
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Where's the rest of the Channeling Morpheus audiobooks? I'm dying inside from the need... I WILL read them, but the narrator you chose is great, and I prefer audiobooks. BTW the Hunger series is what got me hooked on JCP, and I'm devouring everything else at a rapid pace. Hunger is the first "mainstream" gay novel I've read. (sorry for calling you mainstream, it's not meant as an insult). Anyway, more audiobooks?
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I added the “Subtle Bodies" ebook as a Suggested Purchase to the San Francisco Public Library in late August. Unfortunately it wasn't approved. The reason given was: "TITLE NOT AVAILABLE -- Thank you for suggesting this title for the Library's collection. Unfortunately, the publisher has not yet made it available for libraries to purchase in the requested format." Will it be available at some point?
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The audio books are brilliant, especially with a narrator as talented as Gomez Pugh. Are there plans to release any more this year?
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