I dont know about Marxist undertones but certainly liberal...which nowadays borders on socialism. Applegate is certainly disdainful of those who own firearms for somebody who wrote 60+ books about the human race being invaded and having to defend itself. I recall most of a quote in one of the later books...I believe it was the last Megamorphs book "Back to Before" and I'll paraphrase but I'm positive it was very similar to "Tom owns a handgun? Who really owns handguns? Only criminals or pathetic people who want to feel important."
That annoyed me. I was pretty sure she was liberal, but I wasn't aware that she was an ignorant hippy who is completely ignorant and out of touch with reality...but by the time I read that book I had read the first 50 books, and many of the first 20-25 books two, three, even ten times over...kinda too late to allow a clash of political ideologies to prevent me from reading anymore of her books. Anyways, I'm trying to find all of the books in pdf file because I found them all a few months ago and like an idiot I didn'd save the site to my favorites so now I'm trying to find the site again. I found them all on pdf or txt files or something, there was no download, no bit torrent, no amazon, no google books, no ebooks, nothing. Just links to the pdf files and they popped right up, in a very clear, organized, easy-to-read fashion similar to the actual books themselves. Please let me know if I may find them on this site. I can't find them although I read in a couple of posts, threads, and underneath the links themselves when I searched for them on google, that they can be found on this site.
Post Merged: December 25, 2010, 01:40:50 PM
For some reason, I always thought the Chee were indestructible. I guess it was the whole "living for over 2000 years thing", but I don't remember the books ever saying that Erek--or any other Chee for that matter-- was hit by a Dracon Beam or shredder.
Are the Chee indestructible? Was there a point in the series where Erek said so?
If they break the "no-violence" rule, do they shut down? Or are they PHYSICALLY unable to do so (excluding the one-time-thing in the Android)
you know i think that they are just physically unable to hurt anyone
They cannot break the no-violence rule...it's not a rule or law that they just refuse to break...they ARE physically, electronically, mentally, etc., unable to perform any act of violence. Their programming won't send any signal to their hands to pull a trigger...it won't send a signal to their legs to step on a gas pedal and run over somebody, even somebody yeerk infested. They just can't do it. They're not indestructable either. They're just very strong, very resilient, and very technologically advanced. However, there are a few different books in which they are damaged, there may even be one or two in which one of the Chee is destroyed. I know Mr. King got fried in one book and didn't die but was badly damaged, and another in which Erek has some sort of virus and is harmed in that way instead of being physically assaulted.
