Top Ten Novels about Riots. (real article)

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thanks, Mark! I presume that teacher/author who made the list up doesn't
know West's great book; and the joke he makes

Tie yourself to the masts, kids

suggests that he doesn't know the Odyssey as well as he should.



2018-08-14 19:51 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/08/top-10-novels-about-riots
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:50 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree fully but......
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>>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:43 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Near the top, in my book.
>>>
>>> 2018-08-14 18:33 GMT+02:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> > Day of the Locust has to be in there somewhere, right?
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> > > Not a novel, but Bill Buford's Among The Thugs is stunning, about
>>> English
>>> > > soccer hooligans.
>>> > >
>>> > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >> *3. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
>>> > >> <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/25/fiction.
>>> thomaspynchon>*
>>> > >> Pynchon’s novel is an anarchist’s bomb, gleefully exploding notions
>>> of
>>> > plot
>>> > >> and character. The riots of the historical Ludlow massacre in
>>> Colorado,
>>> > >> where an iron company has paid for an attack on striking miners in
>>> 1914,
>>> > >> fuels a kaleidoscopic exploration of wonderful Pynchon obsessions:
>>> > >> authority and freedom, technology, sex and death.
>>> > >> --
>>> > >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> > >>
>>> > > --
>>> > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> > --
>>> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> >
>>> --
>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>
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