knightfull book club: Mason & Dixon sign up thread

The book: Mason & Dixon

The author: Thomas Pynchon

What is it about, Lai?

Answer:Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.

So about this book club

Response: We will read this book and discuss. Exactly how we will break it up for discussion will be determined. In order to ensure that the book club has enough support, this thread serves as a sign up thread. Simply say you are down to read.

Okay, how about a review or two to help me decide if this is something I want to read?

Response: here are a couple of reviews

http://www.avclub.com/review/thomas-pynchon-imason-amp-dixoni-6421

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/07/surveyors-of-the-enlightenment/376912/

Okay, where do I sign up?

Answer: Below!

Wait, so Dave is Laihendi? I see.

I can confirm that laihendi is his own person

Don't know where that ugly rumor started

I remember the rumour where you were accused to be AP's alt lol.

Book is almost 800 pages Dave, good luck with this man. :(

I recall Laihendi calling the mentally ill subhuman, so I will pass on a book club centered on him.

@BranKetra: bran, the book club is centered on the books that we will be reading my friend.

Did you not read the Q&A?

This time it's a booK called Mason & Dixon, which is an absolute delight

It is called his book club. There is not much else that is needed to understand the theme.

@BranKetra: the theme is book discussion

If chick fil a sponsored a charity for kids with cancer, I would not believe that the theme of the charity is to fund anti-gay marrige initiatives.

While that is a reasonable stance, it does not change the fact that this is labeled as his book club. If you want to associate with that sort of behavior, you can just as I can say that I have no interest in entertainment via a hobby with someone who views another human being as inherently inferior for living with a disease. Have a nice day.

Anyway, back on topic.

This book is long and probably difficult and will take maybe some time to get into it because of how it's written, but it's a joy to read. Above all else I will say it's just a very entertaining and enjoyable read.

@BranKetra: the book club is now disassociated with lai. Who by the way wasnt ever serious about most of the stuff he was known for.

teeheehee

Really? Hes a mean person if he really said that :(

Read my blog....

Hmm, a "knightly" book club... make me just want to read Don Quixote.

WTF, he seems like a completely crazy person lol ( No offense Lai ).

I almost died laughing :

1. Having sex with animals is fine, as long as you own them.

2."The TV shows I watch are highly intellectual; Powerpuff Girls (3 of 6 seasons) Dexters Laboratory (2 of 4 seasons) Johnny Bravo (1 of 4 seasons) Ed, Edd n Eddy (2 of 6 seasons) Courage The Cowardly Dog (2 of 4 seasons The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy (2 of 6 seasons)"

3.The handicapped are by definition degenerates.

Maybe we should all read don quixote

In that case I'll participate.

I already did: