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QC Forum Book Group - Nominations for Book #2
Be My Head:
How about Anathem by Neal Stephenson? If it isn't too long. I just got it and haven't started reading it yet, but it seems like the type of book you guys would like.
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--- Quote from: Linds on 10 May 2010, 05:30 ---If we want to read a collection of short stories, I suggest Forty Stories by David Barthelme.
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Donald.
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Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 10 May 2010, 05:47 ---Oh yeah, and... if we end up reading blood meridian I'll probably sit this round out. Nothing to do with the club, it's just that I cannot stand Cormac McCarthy.
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what's not to like? the heavy pallor of his prose? the biblical austerity of his imagery? the moral vacuums of his narratives that suggest nothing so banal as grey areas between right and wrong but instead that the notion of grey areas is reliant on a black and white good/evil boundary which is beyond the very nature of the human soul?
you gotta read the book, whether you think you can stand him or not. if you got through a clumsily translated mystery thriller you can make it through one of the most incredible books by a currently living american author.
Johnny C:
--- Quote ---They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them. The shadows of the smallest stones lay like pencil lines across the sand and the shapes of the men and their mounts advanced elongate before them like strands of the night from which they'd ridden, like tentacles to bind them to the darkness yet to come. They rode with their heads down, faceless under their hats, like an army asleep on the march. By midmorning another man had died and they lifted him from the wagon where he'd stained the sacks he'd lain among and buried him also and moved on.
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KharBevNor:
Dude needs to learn what a fucking comma is.
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