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| V by Thomas Pynchon |
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8 | 33.33% |
| What I Saw in America by G.K. Chesterton |
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4 | 16.67% |
| Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson |
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3 | 12.50% |
| Jerusalem by Alan Moore |
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3 | 12.50% |
| The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas |
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6 | 25.00% |
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Here are the contestants for next month -- you can vote for one or more -- please only vote if you would actually like to read the book and talk about it 1) V by Thomas Pynchon quote:I should confess that I have no idea what “V.” is about—and I have read it twice. It may be about Benny Profane, a hopeless schlemiel who, having been discharged from the Navy, bounces around New York City with a comically harmless gang called the Whole Sick Crew, spending a good amount of time in the aforementioned crocodilian pursuit. Or the novel could be about Herbert Stencil, the son of a prominent British consular official, Sidney Stencil, who had “died under unknown circumstances in 1919 while investigating the June Disturbances in Malta.” Stencil’s entire existence is focused on the hunt for V., a classic novelistic quest-without-resolution (in fact, V. might be fiction’s greatest example of a MacGuffin). V. may be a person, or may be a place, though it could also be neither: Pynchon calls it, at one point, “a remarkably scattered concept” and, at another, “the ultimate Plot Which Has No Name.” https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/v-at-l-pynchons-first-novel-turns-fifty 2) What I Saw in America by G.K. Chesterton quote:Chesterton begins this book with one of his typical paradoxes: “I have never managed to lose my old conviction that travel narrows the mind.” Now why is that? https://www.chesterton.org/lecture-37/ 3) Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson quote:Her readers obviously don’t care whether her book is fact or fiction. The memoir debuted at the top of the Washington Post and New York Times nonfiction bestseller lists, and at the recent Gaithersburg Book Festival, Lawson was mobbed by avid fans who greeted her with screams, a standing ovation and handmade gifts. No one in the audience questioned whether she had embellished any of her story. In her introduction, Lawson writes, “This book is totally true, except for the parts that aren’t.” She added that disclaimer to sidestep any threat of being sued — and perhaps to give her family a friendly loophole in case they need to fend off charges of reckless parenting over some of Lawson’s more outrageous reminscings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...m=.61ac14315d70 4) Jerusalem by Alan Moore quote:This is it, the Big Book to end all Big Books. The one you may have heard of — Jesusalem — written by that guy who also writes the comics or whatever? (Alan Moore, the groundbreaking, hairy genius behind V For Vendetta and Watchmen.) The one that took him a decade to peck out, clocks in at something like 1300 pages, and weighs as much as a small, dense cat? https://www.npr.org/2016/09/15/493003885/jerusalem-is-alan-moores-really-big-book-in-every-way 5) The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas quote:Uncovering a cold-blooded execution at the hands of a conspiring police force, this engaging account relentlessly pursues the murderers of Black Panther Fred Hampton. Documenting the entire 14-year process of bringing the killers to justice, this chronicle also depicts the 18-month court trial in detail. Revealing Hampton himself in a new light, this examination presents him as a dynamic community leader whose dedication to his people and to the truth inspired the young lawyers of the People's Law Office, solidifying their lifelong commitment to fighting corruption. Contending with FBI stonewalling and unlimited government resources bent on hiding a darker plot, this reconstruction relates an inspiring narrative of upholding morality in one man's memory. https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Fred-Hampton-Chicago-Murdered/dp/B00BLKTO8C Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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Feb 25, 2019 17:39
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Feb 26, 2019 02:44
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chernobyl kinsman posted:vote v i have an illness where i can't shut up about pynchon so if this wins i'll be insufferable
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Feb 26, 2019 03:54
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I nominated What I Saw in America, and despite the fact that I like it and enjoy it and recommend it, I promise it's still actually a book sane people would want to read. Also it's on Gutenberg.
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Feb 26, 2019 07:39
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Tree Goat posted:i have an illness where i can't shut up about pynchon so if this wins i'll be insufferable the only pynchon ive read is the crying of lot 49 
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Feb 26, 2019 18:23
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I’ll vote v. when I’m on a computer and will gladly reread it. It’s my favorite Pynchon book, it’s just insanely good
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Feb 26, 2019 18:58
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chernobyl kinsman posted:the only pynchon ive read is the crying of lot 49  I mean even I read Gravity's Rainbow. After like 30 years but still. It changed everything about my relationship with books
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Feb 27, 2019 06:01
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V. is so loving good. I think about it all the time, and I read it years ago.
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Feb 27, 2019 20:09
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Bilirubin posted:
I read it at age 12 because my dad's approach to sex ed was to leave "dirty books" lying around the house where he knew I would find them. And that set me on the path to where I am today Franchescanado posted:V. is so loving good. I think about it all the time, and I read it years ago. I thought I had a copy of it lying around that I was given as a gift in college and this would be my excuse to finally read it I was wrong though that was a copy of Vineland so looks like I'm gonna have to go get this one unless the vote turns around at the last minute Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Feb 28, 2019 |
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Feb 28, 2019 02:03
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It'll be V. I'll get a thread up as soon as I finish dealing with all the reports.
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Mar 1, 2019 16:07
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Pynchon! 
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Mar 1, 2019 16:34
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culture me, assholes, I shall read your book
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Mar 1, 2019 17:29
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i know a guy who loves pynchon more than almost anything on earth except for vaporwave, so pynchon and vaporwave are inextricably connected in my mind now
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Mar 1, 2019 19:21
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Goondolences.
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Mar 1, 2019 20:09
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i know a guy who loves pynchon more than almost anything on earth except for vaporwave, so pynchon and vaporwave are inextricably connected in my mind now ヴェルナー・フォン・ブラウン420/現代のロケット
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Mar 1, 2019 20:31
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Got a copy of V. ready to roll as soon as I finish Blood Meridian. Hopefully fewer people get murdered in V. A LOT fewer people. But keep the Judge
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Mar 2, 2019 06:08
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That's gonna be...quite a transition. I'm not saying their ultimate concerns/themes are all that different, but now you've put me in mind of McCarthy trying to write a vaudeville-song gag or a 30-page digression with the sole purpose of setting up a verbal pun.
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Mar 3, 2019 16:29
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mdemone posted:That's gonna be...quite a transition. I'm not saying their ultimate concerns/themes are all that different, but now you've put me in mind of McCarthy trying to write a vaudeville-song gag or a 30-page digression with the sole purpose of setting up a verbal pun. I got a few pages in and its an abrupt change for sure. Pynchon has a much lighter, more playful style. Perhaps that comes from not murdering everyone in gruesome ways? I have to say though that I cannot get Blood Meridian out of my head, it is sooo good and the finale one of the best I've read
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Mar 3, 2019 16:50
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Bilirubin posted:Pynchon has a much lighter, more playful style. Perhaps that comes from not murdering everyone in gruesome ways? Have patience. 
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