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« Reply #210 on: February 28, 2005, 06:18:20 pm »
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Just finished up Snow Crash

I just read that for the first time last month. I guess it was cool but having read his other stuff first it didn't really hold a candle.


I adore that novel. I just love what he did to cyberpunk.
Also, finest denoument, ever...
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« Reply #211 on: February 28, 2005, 06:26:45 pm »
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Just finished up Snow Crash, and now I've moved on to What's The Matter With Kansas?, mainly because I'm getting tired of Thomas Frank being the go-to guy whenever Kansas comes up in the national news.  I figure I can justify my disdain for him by reading his book.

I must admit that I've never heard of Thomas Frank. What's his damage, and what does he think is the matter with Kansas? Is this one of those "midwestern small towns conceal a dark heart" twonkishnesses that (if I may segue back on topic) have ensured that I will never again attempt to read Kent Haruf?
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« Reply #212 on: February 28, 2005, 06:36:57 pm »
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Just finished up Snow Crash, and now I've moved on to What's The Matter With Kansas?, mainly because I'm getting tired of Thomas Frank being the go-to guy whenever Kansas comes up in the national news.  I figure I can justify my disdain for him by reading his book.

I must admit that I've never heard of Thomas Frank. What's his damage, and what does he think is the matter with Kansas? Is this one of those "midwestern small towns conceal a dark heart" twonkishnesses that (if I may segue back on topic) have ensured that I will never again attempt to read Kent Haruf?


He used to write a publication called The Baffler, which I have never heard of but many apparently have.  His thesis in What's The Matter With Kansas? is that the right has successfully duped rural voters into voting Republican based on Moral Values, but then only implements pro-business legislation which then hurts those same rural voters.  In this book he explores how the right managed to do that, particularly when Kansas was quite the socialist hotbed back in the day.  

I'm sure it's bigger news here in Kansas than other places, but I've seen Frank on several national news/interview shows, and it seems that any time something in Kansas makes the national news they call up Tom.
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« Reply #213 on: February 28, 2005, 08:26:11 pm »
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I must admit that I've never heard of Thomas Frank. What's his damage, and what does he think is the matter with Kansas? Is this one of those "midwestern small towns conceal a dark heart" twonkishnesses that (if I may segue back on topic) have ensured that I will never again attempt to read Kent Haruf?


Isn't he mainly dismayed with the conservativism of middle America?
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« Reply #214 on: March 01, 2005, 02:57:07 am »
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Isn't he mainly dismayed with the conservativism of middle America?


Kinda like the rest of us.
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« Reply #215 on: March 01, 2005, 05:43:33 pm »
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Isn't he mainly dismayed with the conservativism of middle America?


Kinda like the rest of us.


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« Reply #216 on: March 01, 2005, 09:16:02 pm »
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I just finished Jennifer Government. It didn't inspire me in any way.


There's nothing in Jennifer Government that wasn't essentially done better in The Space Merchants.

I'm about to give up on Kim Stanley Robinson's latest, Forty Signs of Rain. Really dull, only read as far as I have because I loved the Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt.

Edit cuz those italics looked like robot ass.
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« Reply #217 on: March 01, 2005, 09:47:08 pm »
I got the Dante Club as a present. Has anybody read this? I don't think I'll even consider tackling it until after System of the World, though.
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« Reply #218 on: March 01, 2005, 11:34:16 pm »
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I got the Dante Club as a present. Has anybody read this? I don't think I'll even consider tackling it until after System of the World, though.


I read it in a day whilst trying to fly from New York to Kentucky. Given that I'm a sucker for literary historical fiction, I was down with it. Interesting stuff.

I'm currently working on Carlos Luiz Zafon's "Shadow of the Wind," which is, suprise suprise, a literary historical fiction novel.
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« Reply #219 on: March 02, 2005, 12:33:42 am »
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I read it in a day whilst trying to fly from New York to Kentucky.


Trying?
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« Reply #220 on: March 02, 2005, 12:45:41 am »
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I read it in a day whilst trying to fly from New York to Kentucky.

Trying?

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« Reply #221 on: March 02, 2005, 02:16:14 am »
I understand it involves throwing oneself toward the ground and missing.
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« Reply #222 on: March 02, 2005, 04:30:39 am »
My superpower is actually that any time I fly, I fly on a day where there will be a snowstorm or massive power-outage; the last four times I've flown, there have been three freak snowstorms and the power went out on the entire Eastern seaboard. So, every time I fly, I end up taking about a day and a half to actually get anywhere, and so I read a lot on flights.
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« Reply #223 on: March 15, 2005, 09:30:22 pm »
I gotta fly all the time for work. I bring crosswords and my gameboy and maybe a book, but I always get bored with whatever I'm doing. Luckily I usually get first class so I can just drink myself into a coma. I'm reading Fredric Brown right now.
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« Reply #224 on: March 16, 2005, 06:54:13 pm »
Currently, I am reading:
    "Filth" by Irvine Welsh (for the second time)
    "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It" by Geoff Dyer (stuck at a boring part right now)
    "Homestead : The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town" by William Serrin (also a little bored at the moment)
I love reading Welsh's stuff. I just love getting immersed in the dialect. I just have to be careful not to call everyone "cunt." If you've read his stuff, you know what I mean.
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