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

Wed Aug 17 17:04:39 EDT 2022

Oops
I meant to pick cities of the red night by Burroughs.  Guess that's what
happens when I do research on my phone after my bedtime.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 2:43 PM Wesley Brodsky <wesbrodsky at alum.mit.edu>
wrote:

> I searched “ Carter and Lovecraft” and the only reference to a book by
> Burroughs I found was “The Place of Dead Roads” is a 1983 novel by William
> S. Burroughs, the second book of the trilogy that begins with Cities of the
> Red Night (1981) and concludes with The Western Lands (1987). It chronicles
> the story of a gay gunfighter in the American West, beginning with the
> gunfighter's death in 1899, incorporates contrasting themes and time travel
> episodes, and makes use of Burroughs’ extensive knowledge of firearms.
> Non-linear in construction, it makes use of vivid imagery and repetition
> but does not employ the famous “cut-up” method of literary collage used in
> his earlier novels.
>
> I did not read that book,  but it seems it might have more of a plot that
> “The Ticket That Exploded”
>
> - Wes
>
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> Wesley Brodsky <wesbrodsky at alum.mit.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 2:08 PM
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>
> My humble suggestion is just to let the group vote on it, knowing what
> they are voting on.
>
> -Wes
>
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> Shelly Thomas <yellerdoggy at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 1:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] My choices for November or December book
>
> 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
> <mailto: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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> reading-group-bounces at lists.nesfa.org>> on behalf of Wesley Brodsky <
> wesbrodsky at alum.mit.edu<mailto:wesbrodsky at alum.mit.edu>>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:27 PM
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> 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
>
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> reading-group-bounces at lists.nesfa.org>> on behalf of Shelly Thomas <
> yellerdoggy at gmail.com<mailto:yellerdoggy at gmail.com>>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:04 PM
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> 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><mailto: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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