Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I was packing books, recently, and was alarmed by the amount of crap books I read. I have a whole shelf loaded with crappy horror, which is one of my faves.
I think I'd not date someone too into Palahniuk and Bukowski. And by "too" I mean quoting during dinner.
Music and movies I see as different from reading since the first two might entail you participating, while reading is basically a solitary activity that wouldn't really affect the partner.
Exactly -- which is why I wouldn't really bother getting worked up about someone else's taste in reading. But I can see a general ignorance of widely used cultural references being an issue, just because it points (to me) to a general lack of interest in the world.
Ooh look! Another doomsday cult:
A priest specialising in apocalyptic literature has been brought in to persuade members of a doomsday cult to leave a cave in Russia.
The 28 cult members barricaded themselves in the cave 750km (450 miles) south-east of Moscow in October.
The priest, an expert in the Book of Revelations, has spoken to them through a ventilation shaft.
On Saturday, several members of the cult, who believe the world will end in May, came out of the cave.
They left their refuge in the Penza region after part of the roof collapsed.
The seven women were allowed to leave with cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov after he was brought to the scene to negotiate.
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Up until now, the cult members have strongly resisted attempts to force them out.
They threatened to detonate gas canisters if attempts were made to remove them and last week reportedly shot at police to drive them off.
However, there are reports of a split in the cult after a number of cave-ins due to prolonged rainfall. There are fears the cave could collapse completely.
I deeply love music and I would only break up with someone who judged the music I listened to.
Kristen is me. I gently mock my mother for listening to Kenny G, but I would cut a bitch if anyone looked down their nose at her for doing so.
Aw. Doomsday cults are so endearing. If for now other reason than sooner or later one of them will be right. Or, at least, be the last one before humanity is wiped out, which will be as close to right as any of them will ever get.
And, you know, so often they are right about the end of the world, at least as far as they themselves are concerned.
It's hard to imagine my having a long-term relationship with someone who doesn't read. That's the sort of person who might think there is such a thing as Too Many Books. Of course, it's getting increasingly difficult for me to imagine having a relationship.
It's hard to break up with someone that actually wants to hear about your dissertation.
Truer words were never written.
just because it points (to me) to a general lack of interest in the world.
Yes this.
And the guy who broke up with me was a jerk, but the incompatibility of our reading was really a larger problem, because I feel that many many things that are entertaining are also enlightening. This is why, in fact, I started doing theater. And I feel like I get as much out of reading sense and sensibility as he did out of reading Marcus Aurelius, but now with added story! And people I like!. And while I was willing to try Marcus Aurelius (and in fact knew who he was before the BF told me) he was not willing to read Jane Austen. The more annoying thing was that when he liked to read fiction, or watch it, it was OK, and he liked some CRAP stuff (like Titanic-- which is no Dawson's Creek, you know ;). So really, the big issue was not books but that we were incompatible.
Doomsday cults are so endearing. If for now other reason than sooner or later one of them will be right. Or, at least, be the last one before humanity is wiped out, which will be as close to right as any of them will ever get.
"Hah! The Four Horsemen are here! Hah!
In your face, Heaven's Gate! In your fucking FA--!!"
So really, the big issue was not books but that we were incompatible.
Sophia, you misspelled "he was a total douche".