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[Michael Bailey]

On Nov 18, 2013 11:42 PM, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Relative to what?
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On my personal continuum of novels touching that topic I like it better
than falling man, but just perhaps was drawn a little bit more into pattern
recognition on an emotive level than into be // caveat being of course that
old chestnut, "but what do I know? "
One might - if one had a notion - suggest BE draws on and develops some of
the themes in both, with the usual flair one expects.  Because my reading
is not wide nor deep, I will only mention the "magical negro" in BE as a
quick and spot-on response to the loas in PR, and Maxine's ruthless (wonder
where Ruth is), dogged (woof) pursuit of obtainable justice as a possible
response to the helplessness portrayed in FM as a couple of ideas.

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> On Monday, November 18, 2013, Keith Davis wrote:
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>> It is a really good novel.
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>> On Nov 18, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>>> We have a group read going. We named it beer. It's going nice and slow.
We have threads going on the BE that are tagged with a spoiler. Not sure if
the tag is necessary, appreciated, expected? I don't care for it. Several
threads got me thinking a lot. I'm learning slowly. lots of Orwell and
Adams. I do love this novel. Though I'm still working at why, one reason is
Maxine. I love Maxine, her family, her friends, lovers,  job, her point of
view, her worlds and zones.
>>

And I suppose that I do too, at that.
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