Posted by Susan47 on May 31, 2005, at 17:41:26
In reply to Book Suggestions » Susan47, posted by Damos on May 30, 2005, at 21:20:29
No way. Just from what you've said in your posts, I don't think I could read that stuff. If it's got to do with helpless innocent people being hurt, I want nothing to do with it. I've always been like that, I couldn't even read Black Beauty past the first few pages. I couldn't live through the sadness to get to the good part. Nope. You can have those books, that stuff, if that's what it is. I can't read about war, either, not the most recent wars. I've read a few Holocaust survivor books, and personal account books of living with Communism in China and other stuff like that, but the more recent wars, the brutality of human to human .. I don't understand being able to read that stuff .. yet strangely enough, I had little trouble with ERich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", but couldn't get through the first chapter of his "A Time to Love and a Time to Die" because of the brutality of which is expressed as thought and external reality ...
See, I've rambled again. Tell me about Augusten Burroughs. I think I may have seen a snippet of something about him on TV but flipped past it, I can't watch any Oprah like that, about stuff done to children. Was this about his childhood, horrible things done to him?
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