Talk:Dogscape/@comment-26478829-20190213082245

I'm sorry but why is this at all considered a good story? It's disgusting, and not in a good, interesting way.

Ignoring the awful grammar, tons of plotholes (how did that soldier record a log while dying? Or that guy who got raped to death by all those dogs?), inconsistent terminology (which can be forgiven since the numerous PoV characters, however), etc, this is just not a very well-written story. The world of the Dogscape isn't well-described at all, we don't really learn much about it other than everything is dog related. When we do learn about the history of the world, it's absolutely laughable. Other than constant shock value, there's almost nothing of merit here. No rich, haunting world, no interesting characters, no interesting concepts. Nothing. Just dark for the sake of being dark.

I know the logs aren't all in chronological order, but how did human history become vividly remembered 650 years after the end? How did writing exist for that long without schools or scholars? These logs all have to be written, right?

Let's use a real life example. The later tablets written in the Rongorongo script date back to the early 1600 hundreds, only 400 years ago, yet we can't understand a lick of it. Are we to assume that parents in this world managed to find the time to teach their off spring how to read and write when they were fighting for their lives?

Also, without any mass-communications in this world, it's highly unlikely English language would stay so similar to the way it is now. Remember, Shakespeare wrote in Modern English and it's hard for us to read it today. Imagine the same thing, only with every tribe developing its own dialect. How did we get these "logs" anyway?

And aliens? Really? I love Alien horror, but hey added nothing to the plot other than more shock value.

I have to agree with some guys below me. This is just a series of gross stuff happening to people. Stuff just feels like it happens for the sake of being dark and depressing, and nothing feels natural. The women vanishing and the extreme about of bestiality, not to mention the concepts that are mentioned once and never again with no meaning or impact all further solidify this.

I don't want to go as far as some and say the writer had no morals or anything, but they tried far to hard to make this creepy, and my God it shows.