[nesfa-reading-group] My choices for November or December book

[Wesley Brodsky]

Have others read  “The Ticket that Exploded”? What do they think about it as a source for discussion? A totally random sample of the text;

“Don’t know how i’ll make it, baby — Electric fingers removed ‘Love’ — Do you love me? — Love is red sheets of pain hung oh oh baby oh jelly — The guide slipped off his jelly — I’ve got you under my skin pulsing red light — Clouds of Me always be true to you — Hula hoops of color formed always be true to you darling in my Bradly — Weak and torn i’ll hurry to my blue heaven as i sank in suffocation panic of rusty St. Louis woman — With just a photograph, Mary, you know i love you through sperm — Contraction turnstile hoped you’d love me too —”

Yes, it is all like that.

-Wes

________________________________________
From: reading-group <reading-group-bounces at lists.nesfa.org> on behalf of Wesley Brodsky <wesbrodsky at alum.mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:27 PM
To: NESFA Reading Group
Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] My choices for November or December book

I loved Burroughs, William S.   “The Ticket that Exploded:” SciFi or dream imagination? The reader will have to decide. Certainly, passages reference things from SciFi; I forgot what. “Language is a virus from outer space.”
-Wes

________________________________________
From: reading-group <reading-group-bounces at lists.nesfa.org> on behalf of Shelly Thomas <yellerdoggy at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:04 PM
To: NESFA Reading Group
Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] My choices for November or December book

Here are my 3 picks for voting on:
Morris, Brandon Q        The Disturbance Hard Science Fiction
Burroughs, William S.   The Ticket that Exploded:  The Restored Text
Brunner, John                The Jagged Orbit

On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 6:21 PM David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs at gmail.com<mailto:dggrubbs at gmail.com>> wrote:
In the NESFA Reading Group, we have Carter & Lovecraft coming up for September and Growing Up Weightless coming up for October.  I was asked to select three books you all can vote on to pick for either November or December.

Here are three:  (They all have around 3.8 averages on Goodreads.)
Gibson,William             2003 Pattern Recognition  (356 pages)
Lethem,Jonathan            1994 Gun, with Occasional Music  (262 pages)
Moorcock,Michael           1972 An Alien Heat   (147 pages)

I have not read the Gibson. It is the first in a series, but I don't get the feeling that it is the first in a "trilogy". It should stand alone. It looks like it is typical Gibson with Tech, Web activity and Spies.

The other two are on my "reread" list of books I rated highly in the past. I read the Lethem almost 30 years ago (it is a mixture of Fantasy and Noir mystery) and the Moorcock almost 50 years ago (it is an odd mix of Victorian fantasy, multi-universes, and humor). I would like to read them again.


_______________________________________________
reading-group mailing list
reading-group at lists.nesfa.org<mailto:reading-group at lists.nesfa.org>
https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group
_______________________________________________
reading-group mailing list
reading-group at lists.nesfa.org
https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group