Damn Good Read

just finished reading L.E. Modesitt's latest book The Ethos Effect...as i have said before (more than once i think), he is one of my favorite authors (favorite in his genre for sure), and this one was one of his best ever...this book deals deeply with ethics and morals, and will have me thinking on them for quite a while i'm sure...his characters continue to be fascinating people, who are forced by circumstances to make very difficult descisions and then live with the results...i am extremely impressed with how honestly he handles questions of right and wrong, and how he refuses to resort to using simple stereotypical good vs. evil, black and white situations, instead potraying things in more realistic grey shadings, and presenting both sides of issues, leaving the reader to decide for them selves what is right, and judge whether the Hero was really a hero, or in fact a villan...personally i have found his heros to be truly heroic, making the most painful of descisions and then acting on them knowing what it will cost them to do so...maybe this appeals to me so much, because of how many hard descisions i have been forced to make in my life...i hope he continues to write many more books before he is done.

this book, more so than any previous works, paints a very bleak picture of where society seems to be heading if we don't find some way to change...i sincerely hope that he reaches others as he has reached me, and that it sparks some changes in our world...we can do much better than we are doing presently, and make our world a better place to live...we need less hate, intolerance, greed, and shortsightedness, and more understanding, consideration and respect.