<html><body><div><div>Wes<br></div><div><br></div><div>I just picked up the audio book for "The Ticket That Exploded" and will read after the Carter Lovecraft book. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Richard</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 17, 2022, at 12:30 PM, Wesley Brodsky <wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>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></div><div><br></div><div>“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></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, it is all like that.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Wes<br></div><div><br></div><div>________________________________________<br></div><div>From: reading-group <reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org> on behalf of Wesley Brodsky <wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu><br></div><div>Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:27 PM<br></div><div>To: NESFA Reading Group<br></div><div>Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] My choices for November or December book<br></div><div><br></div><div>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></div><div>-Wes<br></div><div><br></div><div>________________________________________<br></div><div>From: reading-group <reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org> on behalf of Shelly Thomas <yellerdoggy@gmail.com><br></div><div>Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:04 PM<br></div><div>To: NESFA Reading Group<br></div><div>Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] My choices for November or December book<br></div><div><br></div><div>Here are my 3 picks for voting on:<br></div><div>Morris, Brandon Q The Disturbance Hard Science Fiction<br></div><div>Burroughs, William S. The Ticket that Exploded: The Restored Text<br></div><div>Brunner, John The Jagged Orbit<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 6:21 PM David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs@gmail.com<mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com>> wrote:<br></div><div>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></div><div><br></div><div>Here are three: (They all have around 3.8 averages on Goodreads.)<br></div><div>Gibson,William 2003 Pattern Recognition (356 pages)<br></div><div>Lethem,Jonathan 1994 Gun, with Occasional Music (262 pages)<br></div><div>Moorcock,Michael 1972 An Alien Heat (147 pages)<br></div><div><br></div><div>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></div><div><br></div><div>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></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>reading-group mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org><br></div><div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group">https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>reading-group mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br></div><div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group">https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>reading-group mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br></div><div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group">https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>