A forum for the discussion, appreciation, and analysis of the fictional works of underground cult novelist H. A. Covington. Also for the continuation of the Covington tradition via encouraging new White racial nationalist fiction, PPO publishing tips, etc. For those wishing to contact Mr. Covington directly, his e-mail is harold_covington@hotmail.com.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Brigade (A Review)
I finally started reading The Brigade. I haven't gotten too far (I'm on chapter 5), but what I've read so far is amazing. I thought it was unnecessarily detailed for a while, until I understood what you were up to.
Although I don't post in the message group, I do read it occasionally and I read your post about your blog "only" getting 350 hits a day. My own website only gets a few more than that a month. I would be jumping for joy if I got that many hits a day. The thing is, you need to stop talking down about your own operation. People follow confidence. Believe me, I know it's frustrating when it seems like you aren't getting through to people. But now that I've read the first few chapters of The Brigade I know you know that you don't need legions of people to effect change. In fact, as you've pointed out, attracting numbers for the sake of it is counter productive. I think The Brigade will show people (really show them--step by step) that a small group can change things when they put their minds and hearts into it. One last comment-- as I was reading the book, it struck me as an interesting fact that gang bangers would risk their life every day defending their friends and their city block, doing pretty much the same things as described in your book, except for personal gain instead of the gain of a whole nation, and yet normal, lower and middle class whites seem to be unable to do that for something as important as their freedom or their race. Are you telling me that we can't even organize as well as the Italian Mafia did? They didn't even speak English or know the layout of the land when they first came here. But they were very fluent in the one language that everyone understands (I think you know which one I'm referring to). Just my two cents, Mike
Matt Redmond - Patrick Swayze Heather Redmond - Bonnie Hunt Tori Redmond - Tatiana Maslany Major Rozanov - Christian Slater Paul Lieberman - Tim Roth Mary Jane - Amanda Bynes Chuck Bennett - George Dzundza Michelle - Madeleine Stowe The CIA Hit Man - Chris Imperioli Will Williams - Yaphet Kotto (from R.D. in Richmond)
Cody Brock - Frankie Muniz Nightshade - Lynsey Bartilson Kelly Shipman - Andi Eystad Bobby Bells - James Gandolfini Frank Barrow - Donal Logue Red Morehouse - Kurtwood Smith Mitch Newman - Billy Crystal Carter Wingfield - Kevin Bacon Nigel Moore - Josh Hartnett Jane Chenault - Bonnie Hunt John Morgan - Ian McShane Howard Weinbaum - Michael Lerner Susan Horowitz - Tiffany Shepnis
[This is the disclaimer form the Master sends out with all copies of F & R] Disclaimer and Caveat To All Movement Readers of Fire and Rain
Dear Racial Comrades:
I am enclosing a copy of my novel Fire and Rain. I hope you find it an entertaining and enjoyable read. However, before you begin the book, I’d like a quick word.
Fire and Rain was written with the intention of submitting it for publication through the existing publishing establishment, which consists for all practical purposes entirely of Jews, feminists, and the six or seven multi-national corporations who control the industry. The manuscript would have had to pass muster first by a literary agent who, whatever his personal political views, knows full well what the industry will publish and what it will not. Secondly, it would have to pass through a succession of readers, mostly leftist women and homosexuals. Then it would have to be accepted by an editor who would submit it to a board of other editors and market analysts, who would decide not only if the book was Politically Correct, but whether it would make any money. As you will see when you read it, the chances of Fire and Rain passing any such process of literary kashruth is slim indeed.
But I was determined to try, and so I included in Fire and Rain a number of elements of Political Correctness that you, as an Aryan racial nationalist, will find disturbing and displeasing. I also deliberately included a couple of raunchy sex scenes. These are known in the publishing trade as “commercial dirt.” It is now virtually impossible to publish any work of fiction without them, and I had to include something of the kind were I to have any hope at all of getting the book past the Politically Correct gatekeepers of contemporary fiction, such as it is.
Unlike its sequel Slow Coming Dark, Fire and Rain was not intended primarily for Movement readers. It was frankly an attempt to slip some Political Incorrectness past the System and make some money while doing so. In fact, it failed. Fire and Rain was rejected out of hand by every literary agent I submitted it to, including one who had attempted to sell several of my other novels and who sent the manuscript back with a note which read in part, “Harold, you know better than this. I like your work but I’m not going to commit professional suicide for you.”
Comrades, the racial and political message is there in Fire and Rain. Read between the lines, recognize my Politically Correct interpolations as the clearly intended camouflage which they are, and understand the deeper meaning of the novel. Despite its many imperfections, I think you will find it worthy of a place on your bookshelf.
Cast for FIRE AND RAIN: Matt Redmond - Bill Pullman Heather Lindstrom - Kim Basinger Tori Lindstrom - Hillary Duff SBI Director Hightower - Pat Hingle Mary Jane Mears - Christina Ricci Paul Lieberman - Ron Silver Chuck Bennett - Michael Ironside The CIA Hit Man - Joe Pesci Michelle Redmond - Minnie Driver Major Rozanov - Gary Oldman Will Williams - Carl Weathers I don't care about the rest of the characters (Anonymous)
Can I remind everyone of how The Master himself cast one of his own books, i.e. Slow Coming Dark? Matt Redmond - Tommy Lee Jones Heather Redmond - Kyra Sedgwick Tori Redmond - Jennifer Anniston Tony - Leonardo Di Caprio John Visconti - Costas Mandylor Alice Silverman - Kirsten Dunst Bob Blanchette - John Lithgow Luther Lambert - The Undertaker Karen - Kristen Johnston Andrea Weinmann - Gina Gershon Phil Hightower - Charlton Heston Dom the Butcher - F. Murray Abraham Will Williams - Roscoe Lee Browne -Jackie Dal Verme
