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  1. I read that last year. Consider the book as more of an oral history, towards the left and the social aspect of history, a lot more towards an alternative view to what happened in history shown through the eyes of the everyday man. You should counterpoint the book with a more traditional political and economic approach to US history after that. The real history is more somewhere in-between.

  2. Because books always come in two (p.s.: Didn't like Hyperion, I never engaged into half of the stories, but the other halfs were goddamn great! bought the second book, not sure I'll ever read it).

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  3. I see you guys mention Jerry Goldsmith, always thought the mid80's sound of his Yamaha DX-7 (that and the dozens of other synths he used throughout his career) was way before it's time. Stuff like Legend or Total Recall or Hoosiers, Damnation Alley or the awesome stuff on Star Trek : The Motion Picture.

  4. I was told Hyperion can be read as a stand-alone, and if necessary you can jump into the whole shebang and read all the rest?

     

    I'm holding on it as a stand-alone novel, in a sense that I have so much other stuff to read.

  5. Ol' Pynchon's new one, Bleeding Edge, is coming out next week, apparently. Like Inherent Vice, only different?

     

    I really like how he turns the year 2001 into some sort of weird "historical" era. Man it feels like only 10 years ago, but everybody is saying his writing makes it look like it,s from a far distant past, which is probably true.

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