Are there books more depressing than The Road ? Like, ever?
Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.
Angel ,'Not Fade Away'
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Amy - Sep 28, 2011 6:29:09 pm PDT #29088 of 30001
Because books.
Ginger - Sep 28, 2011 6:32:25 pm PDT #29089 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Are there books more depressing than The Road ?
Ethan Frome
The Forest of Hands and Teeth doesn't have a fundamentally bleak view of human nature.
Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:34:46 pm PDT #29090 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Are there books more depressing than The Road ? Like, ever?
Oh god yes! Those aspirational books where the heroine has a lovely house in the Back Bay and a cabin in Stowe, with her lovely children on their way to Phillips Exeter or Andover and their big trust funds? Those are WAY more depressing because they force me to realize I'm 40 and I'll never own a house.
Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:35:53 pm PDT #29091 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Are there books more depressing than The Road ? Like, ever?
Or you know, EVERY Martha Stewart book ever published which inevitably remind me why I can't have nice things.
Amy - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:09 pm PDT #29092 of 30001
Because books.
Those are WAY more depressing because they force me to realize I'm 40 and I'll never own a house.
Oh god, I feel the same way. And it kills me inside.
I always think we could move to ... South Dakota? Maybe we could afford a house there? And then I cry.
Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:15 pm PDT #29093 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
going for a threepeat of random....
has anyone watched The Pioneer Woman tv show yet?
Connie Neil - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:19 pm PDT #29094 of 30001
brillig
I'm with Kat.
Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:39:49 pm PDT #29095 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I always think we could move to ... South Dakota? Maybe we could afford a house there? And then I cry.
Or Cleveland or Detroit! Unfortunately also no jobs...
Amy - Sep 28, 2011 6:40:15 pm PDT #29096 of 30001
Because books.
I did, Kat. She seemed more comfortable in the second episode I saw than the very first, and I like the format. I think she needs a little more time to really relax into it.
She and Marlboro Man are very sweet together, though.
Kat - Sep 28, 2011 6:42:49 pm PDT #29097 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
See... her life makes me more depressed than The Road too. She's like country Martha Stewart, but a former ballerina. I have the show on the DVR, but haven't watched yet.
bah. growl. grumble.
I'm unfit for humanity.
I also realized I can use John Mellencamp lyrics to teach allegory, so that was sort of fun!