NP: Plague Reading

[Mark Thibodeau]

I was just coming on here to bring up Rabid... particularly the final ten
minutes, which are particularly chilling in hindsight.

How about Children of Men? The movie, as I haven't read the book. It has a
contagion feel to it.

Jerky

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 8:59 AM Richard Romeo <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not books but early Cronenberg like Rabid or Shivers. Oh yes
>
>
> > On Mar 13, 2020, at 7:03 AM, Carlo Trimarchi <mr.spoon21 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the manga, from Hayao Miyazaki
> >
> > It's not strictly about a plague, but still related, I think.
> >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(manga)
> >
> >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:20 AM Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> My vote's for José Saramago's Blindness.
> >>
> >> On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 16:47, David Elliott via Pynchon-l <
> >> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (Will I be kicked out of the group for
> >>> that?)
> >>>
> >>>    On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 11:22:50 AM EDT, Mark Kohut <
> >>> mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Don't forget the one TRP hisself recommends: Love in the Time of
> >>> Cholera.    Books, like love, are strange.
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPad
> >>>
> >>>> On Mar 11, 2020, at 11:18 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Those are some great recommendations. Let me try.
> >>>>
> >>>> Ok, here's my two bits. First, I'll see your sci-fi (which sounds
> good)
> >>> and
> >>>> raise you Frank Herbert's *The White Plague*. I'll also throw in
> >> Defoe's
> >>>> Journal of the Plague Year; it's no Robby Crusoe but worth taking a
> >> look
> >>>> at. If I could only recommend one, it might well be the former.
> Herbert
> >>>> went dark on that one.
> >>>>
> >>>> ciao
> >>>> mc
> >>>>
> >>>> <
> >>>
> >>
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> >>>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 4:18 PM Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Using the coronavirus as an excuse to finish The Decameron after
> >>> starting
> >>>>> it years ago.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any other good pandemic lit? All genres and pub dates welcome.
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