Graeme Waymark answers “This book is full of revisionist history...”

Lynn Williams asked this question about Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3):

This book is full of revisionist history and incorrect statements! I know it is fiction but so full of propaganda.

Graeme Waymark I believe that you are wrong about this and making uncalled for judgments. It is not fair to read a novel and state: 'this or that is wrong', without …moreI believe that you are wrong about this and making uncalled for judgments. It is not fair to read a novel and state: 'this or that is wrong', without stating your facts and your proofs. You give none.

You are not only being unfairly judgmental but also generalizing in the worst possible fashion. I found the book quite startlingly realistic to what I have experienced in my seventy years on this planet. What I did not know before reading this novel, I looked up and still could find no inconsistencies or inaccuracies even to the research he did on a rock'nroll band. His entire description of them was about as factual as an author could have got for artists in the sixties. On that I am sure as I was a financial advisor to an international group a few years later. (less)

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