NP: Plague Reading

[David Morris]

Party Pooper sez:

I hope y'all have bought the last rolls of toilet paper from wherever they
might still be found.  Walmart TP shelves down here were empty ass bare.
Walmart is falling down on its job.  We are maybe, now, all of us, entering
the Zone.

David Morris

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:07 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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> > >>
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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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