Review: Writing as Revolution
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2013
It has been enjoyable to read this short series by Michael Bunker.  While there is a sense where I would have liked to have more I fully understand the, as Michael explains in the opening of the book, a need to set limits and within those limits this was a good series.How often we take reading for granted and simply think that we will be able to do so whenever and wherever we like.  But as is seen in the Silo Archipelago series this is not so.  We live in a world not really all that far removed from the world that takes place in a silo where all is controlled.  Some may not think they are controlled but for hose in control that is the best type of control and the populace, as in the Silo series, are playing right along.Renew continues the story, and without sharing too much, of how writing can be a form of revolt.  A form that while peaceful  is able to create great discord.  To write contrary to the established parameters  is a revolution.  It has been said that the pen is mightier than the sword and it is often the sword that is used to try and restrain the pen, but often to no avail.As I mentioned in the last review, of Resist, this series reveals such irony in that the medium, electronic, that makes it so easy to publish works such as Renew is also the medium that can make it easier to thwart writing at all.  If the power is turned off so that electronic media cannot be used than what is left.  We will need to make paper and rememebr how to use a pen so that writing can go on.  If there is a lesson to take away from this series it is that we need to continue to read and write in a manner that is sustainable no matter the situations that arise.  We often talk about sustainability in other area where there needs to be sustainability here as well.Read Renew and if you have not read Refuse or Resist read them first.  This is a quick read but the speed with which one can read the book does not equate to shallow writing.  This series should make one think not only about how things may become but about how things are.