<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div>Oops<div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 2:43 PM Wesley Brodsky <<a href="mailto:wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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I did not read that book, but it seems it might have more of a plot that “The Ticket That Exploded”<br>
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- Wes<br>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 2:08 PM<br>
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My humble suggestion is just to let the group vote on it, knowing what they are voting on.<br>
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-Wes<br>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 1:45 PM<br>
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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.<br>
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 12:30 PM Wesley Brodsky <<a href="mailto:wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu</a>>> wrote:<br>
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;<br>
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“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 —”<br>
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Yes, it is all like that.<br>
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-Wes<br>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:27 PM<br>
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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.”<br>
-Wes<br>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:04 PM<br>
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Here are my 3 picks for voting on:<br>
Morris, Brandon Q The Disturbance Hard Science Fiction<br>
Burroughs, William S. The Ticket that Exploded: The Restored Text<br>
Brunner, John The Jagged Orbit<br>
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On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 6:21 PM David G. Grubbs <<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>><mailto:<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>>>> wrote:<br>
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.<br>
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Here are three: (They all have around 3.8 averages on Goodreads.)<br>
Gibson,William 2003 Pattern Recognition (356 pages)<br>
Lethem,Jonathan 1994 Gun, with Occasional Music (262 pages)<br>
Moorcock,Michael 1972 An Alien Heat (147 pages)<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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