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

[Shelly Thomas]

The second in the series was mentioned in  Carter and Lovecraft as a
description of Providence which made me curious so I put this one on my
list.  I can suggest a replacement if the group prefers.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 12:30 PM Wesley Brodsky <wesbrodsky at alum.mit.edu>
wrote:

> 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
>
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>
> 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
>
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> Shelly Thomas <yellerdoggy at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:04 PM
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>
> 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.
>
>
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