Not Pynchon but not unlike and maybe was influenced AND IS AN UNRESERVED RECOMMENDATION

[Keith Davis]

Sounds great...thanks for the recommendation.

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> On Dec 7, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> It’s on my schedule for next month.  Thanks for the heads up.   
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> Becky 
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>> On Dec 7, 2016, at 4:19 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Got THE SELLOUT, the new Man-Booker Prize winner out of the library, but will now BUY; It needs UNDERLINED a lot. it is a paperback.... I remember The White Boy Shuffle from Mr Beatty and, I gotta tell you --if you don't believe the judges-- his book is off-the-charts brilliant, witty as three stand-up comedians---like Carlin, Pryor and Silverman--she actually blurbs it---, a smart choice by the publisher. His so-alive prose of witty verbal lists and conjunctions can remind of Pynchon and Reed (among others). I’m laughing here; I'm guffawing here; the hair on the back of my arms is rising risibly. Funniest book since the last Portis i read. 
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>> SPOILER ALERT BUT HARDLY, GIVEN THE PROSE DOES IT: 
>> The riffs, the surprising, obliquely apt lists of comparisons he applies to various surreal situations: The prologue is him getting high, while his car is illegally parked outside, in front of his Supreme Court appearance (!) where the OTHER BLACK GUY disses him like a superior white guy in the power structure. Then we learn he was raised in a farm (!) area of the city of Los Angeles---Dickens, a ghetto community in South LA!--, where his dad was a psychologist who ‘conditioned’ him with his experiments, such as trying to prove that the Kitty Genovese Bystander Effect did not apply among negroes who "supported each other" but then had to admit he overlooked “the Bandwagon effect’ when all the bystanders jumped into hitting his kid after he started hitting him in public! ...earlier he wrote of someone for whom ‘everything was a jazz comparison”..."childbirth is like jazz; even jazz is like jazz” among a longer list of other comparisons that are not sticking with me until I underline them...and I've already forgotten the best of some of this list riffing because I laughed so hard because I compare too many things to jazz....LOL...
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>> I have not read a review of this, just got because BIG AWARD and knowledge of his earlier one and wanted to read something new while I continue my belated classics  
>> self-education BUT
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>> The conditioning chapter, and the prose, does make me think that the TRP of Gravity's Rainbow, at least, is an influence, a source--in this section at least-- because of Slothrop's conditioning chapter and because there is shit in it, running down his legs and more. "My bowels evacuated me". 
>> [aside to Morris and Ian, if he's still on the list; narrator alludes to Jung in asides almost wistfully, nostalgically, surely as a contrast to Americans' conditioning psychologists] 
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>> I UNRESERVEDLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ALL ON THE PLIST WHICH IS REAL EASY TO DO BECAUSE MAN--BOOKER AND WISH I WAS RICH ENOUGH TO SEND (ALMOST) EVERYONE ON THIS LIST A COPY.
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>> I would love to read this as a Group but we can't seem to do that well. Our conditioning must be too individualistic --or something. 
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>> So there, happy holidays. Treat yourself or ask for it. No, i am not getting paid to promote it. I did not even (yet) ask for a free copy from someone at the publisher, my old one, although I've written someone about it, but I will now after I buy at least one, surely a couple-three, the writer deserves that and more. I hope he gets to, ah, well-off in the economic status world. I will give that free one and some others away.  
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