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Ben Nevis posted:And this FINALLY came by ILL. I don't know that I make the end of the month on it, but I'm gonna read the bearfucking book anyways. Discussion can always continue past the end of the month! It's cool! this thread can move on canadian time
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I'm Canadian and my dad is a retired high school english teacher, so it turns out he had heard of the bearfucking book. He told me that the era the book had been released was sort of a golden age in Canadian lit, because Margaret Atwood's Survival had been published around this time and there was a lot of discussion about Canadian identity.
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mewse posted:Margaret Atwood's Survival Lol. Just like American lit is all about explorers on the frontier; Canadian lit is victims trying to survive. Federalist Papers.
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poisonpill posted:Lol. Just like American lit is all about explorers on the frontier; lol I am reading Blood Meridian right now and its glorious and gory and so not that. Would be a decent BotM in fact
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Bilirubin posted:lol I am reading Blood Meridian right now and its glorious and gory and so not that. Blood Meridian Blood Meridian Blood Meridian Or All the Pretty Horses
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Feb 27, 2019 04:06
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I wound up with the dull white hardcover with the Plausible as Kitchens quote. I've got to say, there's a certain dread to reading knowing that any moment a woman could be loving a bear. It's like the Monster at the End of this Book, except instead of Grover, it's bear sex.
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Feb 27, 2019 21:27
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I liked all the bear-trivia-notes that homeowner was leaving around his desk. Dude loved bear facts almost as much as the women around him loved the bear.
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Feb 27, 2019 23:06
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OK, so I finished this up. I agree with the consensus that the old lady was also banging the bear. I reckon it's not just Homer that knew, but he definitely did know. I tend to agree with Chernobyl Kinsman that she's reclaiming her sexuality. On the whole, a better book than I was expecting.
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Feb 28, 2019 18:08
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my headcanon is that homer also hosed the bear
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Feb 28, 2019 18:45
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:That's bear-tacular Only fun thing so far is a business card from the publisher fell out  Portrait... 
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Feb 28, 2019 18:55
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chernobyl kinsman posted:my headcanon is that homer also hosed the bear The very end thinking about Homer she mentions the distinctive ridge on his upper plate, which really called to mind the various other ridges mentioned re: bears.
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Feb 28, 2019 19:37
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Finally got the chance to read it tonight, just in time for the month's end. It was more plausible than my own mother's kitchen, put the shapeliness of even "Jack and the Beanstalk" to shame.
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I finished this a few weeks ago, and as with most literature I feel a lot of themes went over my head. I agree with the idea of the book being about her finding her sexuality again and improving herself. With a bear. My favorite scene of the entire book was the previously mentioned dumping scene. Just goes on outside and drops one right on the ground. Geez.
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Mar 1, 2019 05:44
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Last call: suggestions for next month last possible moment if not too late but Winter Tide
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Finished the book. It's very Canadian in a quaint 1970s way - The wilderness is the best - Escaping the rat race for the wilderness will fix everything - A family that's lived in Canada for a hundred years are "tourists" because they're English colonizers - Indigenous mysticism/fetishism - Getting mauled by bears
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Mar 1, 2019 10:48
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GreyjoyBastard posted:last possible moment if not too late but Winter Tide Remind me next month.
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Mar 1, 2019 14:10
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Yo unsticky this and put up the V. thread Please and thank you I mean its still a few days until BotL is back surely you have nothing else to do right now :p
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Mar 3, 2019 22:41
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Am I a monster for laughing when the bear finally gets a hard-on and then immediately mauls our protagonist?
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Mar 4, 2019 20:59
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I refuse to believe anyone read that and didn't at least snigger.
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On the way in to work the CBC was interviewing Erica Jong's daughter about the impact of her mom's early 70s novel Fear of Flying, which I think puts Bear into better context for me. The time was the sexual revolution, second wave feminism, and having women write about sex in the same way as Norman Mailer or Henry Miller was apparently shocking. Bear then becomes more than "getting her groove back" as "claiming her groove for herself". But with loving bear loving in northern Ontario, so a unique Canadian twist
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It's definitely a unique groove, I'll give it that. But yeah, the context of the 70s does change things. I have a pet theory that everyone was incredibly high all the time through the 70s, every bit of 70s art is insane.
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Mar 6, 2019 18:28
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the sexual revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
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and Canadian wildlife
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