Elton's description of what the world looks like when everybody IS connected to cable is what is so scary!
That and a vicious mass peer pressure to love and emote on webcam all the time, for the benefit of society. shivers On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:56 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmmm. I'm sure it's a fascinating book, but if I wanted to be scared and > humored at the same time, I'd connect to cable. > > > > On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:46 PM, John Carl wrote: > > > Fiction Marsha? On THIS list? Where? > > > > Lu just finished Ben Elton's Blind Faith, and agreed with me that its a > > great (but scary) read. > > > > Like I said, it's a retelling of 1984, which isn't so much fiction as it > is > > social commentary and I'd say Elton's book is the same. Only Elton, > being > > so much closer to the effects of the image-oriented reality-tv modern > bent > > of culture on our current paradigm, provides quite a twist on what sort > of > > hell we humans are capable of encasing ourselves within. > > > > How can anything but fiction be so funny, and so scary at the same time? > > > > John > > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Matt Kundert > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> > >> Try Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. It's something else. > >> > >>> --- > >>> > >>> > >>> Matt, I haven't been able to read fiction, except on this list, for > >>> many years. I've tried various genres, but had no success. I > >>> tell myself that non-fiction is more fantastical story-telling than > >>> literature, but I know I missing something. Or maybe not. > >>> > >>> > >>> Much love, > >>> Marsha > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ___ > >>> > >>> > >>> Moq_Discuss mailing list > >>> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > >>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > >>> Archives: > >>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > >>> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > >> > >> _________________________________________________________________ > >> Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from > your > >> inbox. > >> > >> > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID27925::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:032010_2 > >> Moq_Discuss mailing list > >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > >> Archives: > >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > >> > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
