(Suggested titles include "Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus," any of the "Lara Croft" games, "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City," "Cy Girls," "Brute Force," "War Craft III: Reign of Chaos," "Enter the Matrix" and "BloodRayne").
"This is a world of brutes, of war," he told me.
He was trying to express through dramatic means the unfathomable distance between everyday life and the brute horror of war.
The book tells of the circulation battles of two rival newspapers, The Beast and The Brute, during a war in the fictional African country of Ishmaelia.
"Even with this degree of access, television cannot ever adequately convey the sheer brute force of war, the noise and utter violence," the NBC anchor Tom Brokaw said by telephone during a break in his newscast on Friday night.
The New Yorker, in short, is at its best when conditions grow most chaotic; if you want the brute data of war, but you want them treated with nerveless aplomb, read A. J. Liebling's dispatches from North Africa..
And she is as good at finding the words men use to anaesthetise themselves in the brute callousness of war as she is at navigating the tentativeness of new lovers undressing for the first time.Readers who wonder why writers as talented as Martin Amis and the 2006 Man Booker prize-winner, Kiran Desai, seem to flinch from writing about their own times should study Ms Seiffert.
But in the end, the Civil War was about brute force and which side could bring it to bear first, fastest and with finality.
My little brother came to camp in 1948 (I was already there), at the height of the war between the brutes and the bitches ….
We were living too much in the present when the terrorists struck -- we were not ready to be attacked from the inside, not ready to overcome turf fights and identity crises at the C.I.A. and F.B.I., not ready to fight a spidery global war with medieval brutes, not ready to take on the hypocrisy of Saudi Arabia and Egypt on terrorism, not ready to combat bioterrorism.
