[nesfa-reading-group] Suggestion for future reading: Katherine Dunn's "Geek Love"
M M
shakespearsshade at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 11 00:53:33 EDT 2016
Hi Wes,
I've looked at this novel a number of years back, and it didn't look like it would hold my interest. Feel free to bring it up at the group meeting on Friday, though.
Best,
Mike
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On Sun, 7/10/16, Wes Brodsky <wesbrodsky at comcast.net> wrote:
Subject: [nesfa-reading-group] Suggestion for future reading: Katherine Dunn's "Geek Love"
To: "'reading-group NESFA'" <reading-group at lists.nesfa.org>
Date: Sunday, July 10, 2016, 12:32 PM
The note I sent out to NESFA-open
reference the following link (whole this
time, I hope):
https://theconversation.com/freaks-geeks-norms-and-mores-why-people-use-the-
status-quo-as-a-moral-compass-59046
That article reference the book "Geek Love" [
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13872.Geek_Love ]
"The Binewskis are no ordinary family. Arty has flippers
instead of limbs;
Iphy and Elly are Siamese twins; Chick has telekinetic
powers. These
traveling circus performers see their differences as
talents, but others
consider them freaks with "no values or morals."
Whilst this might not have been classified as "Science
Fiction"; the fact
that a character has telekinetic powers would qualify it as
such, I think.
Wes
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