That sums me up, really.
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apocalypsosI have an entire shelf devoted to my disaster books.
Granted, right now there's only ten books on there. I let a co-worker borrow my book on the Cocoanut Grove fire and never got it back, I need to get new copies of Alive and A Night To Remember because I long ago lost my copies of them (actually, I think I may have read my third copy of Alive until it fell apart, much like I did with two previous copies), I let another co-worker borrow The Circus Fire but I need a newer copy anyway, and there's a bunch of other books I've got to get my hands like stuff on the Iriquois Theater fire and Eastland and I don't have anything on September 11th, Katrina or the tsunami, so. *shrugs* Oh, and also I ordered a book on the Texas City explosion.
But right now what I have on the shelf is:
Krakatoa
The Children's Blizzard (Just got these and haven't had a chance to read them yet)
To Sleep With The Angels
Hiroshima
Day of Infamy
The Johnstown Flood
Curse of the Narrows
Triangle
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
Isaac's Storm
I may have the most depressing reading list of anybody I know. Heh.
For the record, I keep Lucifer's Hammer, Swan Song, and The Stand on a different but adjacent shelf, just 'cause. I'm a bit morbid, I think.
Granted, right now there's only ten books on there. I let a co-worker borrow my book on the Cocoanut Grove fire and never got it back, I need to get new copies of Alive and A Night To Remember because I long ago lost my copies of them (actually, I think I may have read my third copy of Alive until it fell apart, much like I did with two previous copies), I let another co-worker borrow The Circus Fire but I need a newer copy anyway, and there's a bunch of other books I've got to get my hands like stuff on the Iriquois Theater fire and Eastland and I don't have anything on September 11th, Katrina or the tsunami, so. *shrugs* Oh, and also I ordered a book on the Texas City explosion.
But right now what I have on the shelf is:
Krakatoa
The Children's Blizzard (Just got these and haven't had a chance to read them yet)
To Sleep With The Angels
Hiroshima
Day of Infamy
The Johnstown Flood
Curse of the Narrows
Triangle
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
Isaac's Storm
I may have the most depressing reading list of anybody I know. Heh.
For the record, I keep Lucifer's Hammer, Swan Song, and The Stand on a different but adjacent shelf, just 'cause. I'm a bit morbid, I think.
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Date: 2008-10-01 07:44 pm (UTC)I read that back when it first came out and had to keep putting it down, walking away for a bit and then picking it up again. *shudders*
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Date: 2008-10-01 07:49 pm (UTC)I let another co-worker borrow The Circus Fire but I need a newer copy anyway
;P
That one's one of my favorites. I think I've kinda killed my copy, though. I've read it about a BILLION times, and I left it in the trunk of my car for a few weeks and now it's all warped. I always have to put it down and walk away for a while when I get to that line about the survivors remembering the animals screaming as they died ... "But no animals died in the fire." GAH. GAH GAH GAH.
(It's not just me, right? O'Nan really does make Rick Davey sound like a smug self-righteous douchebag at the end, doesn't he?)