FantasticLand: A Novel

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The Pirates, at least Brock Hockney and the only other who was interviewed, try to present themselves as this claiming that the other tribes exaggerated their crimes and cruelty. I couldn't help but think that in a situation like this, where a group of people are left stranded somewhere for a long time, the logical thing to do is stay together, then find shelter, food and water.

Yet the only ones who could have committed these savage and horrible acts were the college-aged employees. They took it and made their territory as scary as possible and spread rumors of horrific actions to keep the other tribes away. Through interviews with subjects ranging from a 'FantasticLand historian' to the notorious leader of the Pirate tribe, journalist Adam Jakes assembles a loosely chronological account of what went so horribly wrong.Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. People taking charge, people cowering, people trying to remain neutral, people just wanting to keep to themselves and stay safe, people trying to pretend it was all a bad dream. That helps enforce the fact that NO ONE is in charge, and after the storm passes, the super-disgruntled park staff emerge from the earth, and split into warring factions hoarding food, and defending their own areas of the park. there's an afterword that's a little weak - some sort of too little, too late attempt to guilt the reader into a self-examination of why we are so entertained by violence that has been done, and much more elegantly, by so many others.

There are heroes and villains; assholes and sweeties; and wimps and fighters, but none of those roles were necessarily determined by gender.The big crisis in this book is the MOAH - Mother Of All Hurricanes - which smacks into the eastern coast of Florida with unprecedented force.

One of the interviewees actually gives the theory that a "lack of release" was one of the factors that caused the situation to devolve so quickly. There was also plenty of food and clean water which the Red Cross was told about, making FantasticLand a low priority for relief efforts.

Like attracted like and many soon proved they could not be trusted - with food and water sources and with the lives of the stranded others around them. this is all reported from a member of the pirates, and not the leader himself, so there's a possibility there's more to it than that, but from what is explicitly on the page, it's illogical. Once they actually get to the park workers who were stuck in Fantasticland, it picks up pretty fast.