NP: Plague Reading

[Keith Davis]

One’s ass can be wiped with a wet cloth, as in many Third World countries, which we seem to be heading towards becoming, with our own bananarama “leadership” and lack of representative government. We entered the Zone a long time ago....

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> On Mar 13, 2020, at 7:54 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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