Also, Gabriel is the lamest angel ever

[sincere]

Reading "To Reign in Hell", as recommended to me by anoma, and it's an excellent book, but I want to kill everyone in it. Starting with Abdiel and ending with Mephistopholes, but Yaweh is in there too.

It seems ridiculous to me that Abdiel should be able to say to him, to Yaweh the all-loving who doesn't comprehend hate or anger, "Satan hates you," and bam, Satan hates me, oh woe! "Lucifer did not show up today, he must hate me too!" "Everyone is against me!" What the fuck? Their problems are about the same doubts that you're having problems with, why don't you just say, "Clearly this plan is not working if it brings such strife," and abandon it instead of insisting that they're all traitors turning against you when you still have those doubts?

So I want to kill everyone. *reads*

Comments

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Quotha: "Everyone hates me!" "Well, why do you suppose that is?" "Maybe because I'm the son of the devil?" "That's a good start."
(This is also what I said when I heard about my sister-in-law's allusion to Dante in her naming scheme.)

[ravenseye.livejournal.com]

I have that book, and while it was entertaining, I didn't feel it was particularly original or clever in terms of execution. When you read the end, you'll have to let me know what you think of how it comes together.

I originally found it due to Roger Zelazny's recommendation in an old interview along with the fact that he did the introduction, but in the end was left with a big "eh" feeling.