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

[Erik T. Burns]

I second that emotion, wholeheartedly.

It's a brilliant book

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds great...thanks for the recommendation.
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
> > On Dec 7, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > It’s on my schedule for next month.  Thanks for the heads up.
> >
> > Becky
> >
> >> On Dec 7, 2016, at 4:19 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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...
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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]
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Becky
> > https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
> >
> >
> >
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