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America Fantastica
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This isn't Tim O'Brien's masterpiece by far - that distinction is held by 1990's - The Things They Carried. However America Fantastica was one hell of a ride and read for me.
Start with a bank robbery and a kidnapping in Fulda, California. Which sparks a satirical adventure through an America plagued with deceit, delusion and greed.
On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex - cons and everyone except the police.
Mythomania - an abnormal or pathological tendency to exaggerate or tell lies.
The underlying story here is how the Author masterly paints a picture of our country being blatantly manipulated by disinformation issued by government organizations ( The White House ) to a power of the Media ( CNN ) in 2019.
Start with a bank robbery and a kidnapping in Fulda, California. Which sparks a satirical adventure through an America plagued with deceit, delusion and greed.
On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex - cons and everyone except the police.
Mythomania - an abnormal or pathological tendency to exaggerate or tell lies.
The underlying story here is how the Author masterly paints a picture of our country being blatantly manipulated by disinformation issued by government organizations ( The White House ) to a power of the Media ( CNN ) in 2019.
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Reading Progress
August 10, 2023
– Shelved as:
to-read
August 10, 2023
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April 28, 2024
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Started Reading
May 7, 2024
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10.78%
""Let me ask you a question." Said Angie to Boyd. "How much would you say you've got tucked away in your Community National account?"
"Seventy - two thousand and change."
"Right and you robbed us for eighty one. So unless you plan to go for another stickup - that looks to me like a net take of nine even."
"You didn't do it for the money did you?
" No"
" Why then? "
" Well I did it for the entertainment.""
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50
"Seventy - two thousand and change."
"Right and you robbed us for eighty one. So unless you plan to go for another stickup - that looks to me like a net take of nine even."
"You didn't do it for the money did you?
" No"
" Why then? "
" Well I did it for the entertainment.""
May 8, 2024
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21.77%
""In the nineteenth year of the twenty first century, mythomania (pathological lying) careened down interstate highways, into truck stops, across bridges and viaducts and ideologies, hurtling off exit ramps, breeding in motels, restaurants and RV parks from Rhode Island to Alaska, borne on idle chatter, validated by repetition, revved up on cable news, hot wired to America by the short waves citizens band radio.""
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101
May 9, 2024
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32.33%
"Angie said Boyd suffered from pseudologia fantastica, other times called lying through your teeth.
"You're not forty - nine are you ?"
"Fifty - three."
"And you're not five eleven."
"Well last time I checked -"
"Stop fibbing," she snapped. "I measured you."
"You measured me?"
"I certainly did. You were asleep."
"You measured me in my sleep?"
"I sure did, Shorty. You're 2 gray hairs shy of 5 - 10.""
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150
"You're not forty - nine are you ?"
"Fifty - three."
"And you're not five eleven."
"Well last time I checked -"
"Stop fibbing," she snapped. "I measured you."
"You measured me?"
"I certainly did. You were asleep."
"You measured me in my sleep?"
"I sure did, Shorty. You're 2 gray hairs shy of 5 - 10.""
May 10, 2024
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48.49%
"Angie to Boyd.
"I'm saving you. Right now, just sitting here, you're not shooting anybody, you're not sticking up banks, and you've got your own little house on wheels and you've got a supercute fiancee and, believe it or not, things aren't even half as bad as they used to be back when you first kidnapped me.""
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"I'm saving you. Right now, just sitting here, you're not shooting anybody, you're not sticking up banks, and you've got your own little house on wheels and you've got a supercute fiancee and, believe it or not, things aren't even half as bad as they used to be back when you first kidnapped me.""
May 11, 2024
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75.43%
""A Miss America finalist showcased her sequined KKK robe in the evening competition; a barbecue joint in East Texas was firebombed for serving sushi; a TV evangelist in Virginia announced America's failures were with the failure to assassinate Suzanne B . Anthony. In Washington D.C., the Senate's American clean up caucus voted to dismantle the Statue of Liberty, crate it up, and ship it back to the Frogs.""
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350
May 12, 2024
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Finished Reading
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