Books a Man Has Given Me That Made Me Swear NEVER to Go on Another Date with Him EVER Again

The Bukowski was worse than the fan fiction.

I think the only things that would put me off would be utter crap - if someone buys me Harry Potter or Bridget Jones they clearly have no idea of or relation to what I'm like or interested in.

-- bankster (reduhnekkisssss...), February 13th, 2007.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Nicole Kidman rocking the Aryan ice-queen look as Mrs. Coulter.

The initial post is what i was responding to - texts given within the first moments/days of a burgeoning relationship that just really make you go "Err..Nope."
Bukowski was almost thematic at one point in my dating life. I am not the drunk blow job giving redhead that you crave, ok? I'm the other one.
A nice guy fell in love with me because of my hair and my job. Through Robbins, "Still Life With Woodpecker (i think), he thought his purpose was to fall in love with a long-haired redheaded waitress. He gave me razor blade earrings for Christmas, and I thanked him. And then, a few years later, I ruined his wedding. But not on purpose!
The next guy fell in love with me because I slapped him before I knew him -I was drunk and hadgotten a group of people involved in hijacking a street sign to use as a battering ram - protesting the first war, the Gulf War> it is all so silly now. "No Blood for Oil!"
We ended up at my place, and i was decribing the Breughel print I had on my wall when I discovered him looking at my tits rather than the print. So I slapped him.
I, of course, have no recollection of this. So I carded him the next time I saw him, because he showed up at my bar. He thought that was pretty tough! I had no idea why. I had to card people, and I didn't like his attitude!
That's my blackout boyfriend. And Breughel boyfriend. He didn't have any books EXCEPT Bukowski. Doom!
He was extremely handsome and had a really good stereo system. And we did a lot of drugs together. Mostly acid.
he removed a nectarine pit from my vagina while tripping - I had placed it (shoved it) up there in an ill conceived moment of earth goddess hallucinations. We had eaten the nectarine.
i really shoved it up there. because I had to fake contractions to get the thing out for his finger to grab it.
It's almost like we gave birth to that nectarine pit together!
i think i should either press submit or rethink this entire post. Fuck, it's the sandbox.
I won't be puttin' that on the parenting thread!
And he didn't read good books!

this is a song by J-Lo or Gwen Stefani or someone like that?

: o

i hated hollebeucq (elementary particles) so much i almost started hating the friend who lent his dog-earred copy to me. we have drifted apart, tho, anyway :/

I dumped her.

Yup. We didn't go out anymore after that. It was a sweet gesture, but creepy in content and in various other ways too.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), February 13th, 2007 9:27 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

Did this really need to be asked?

rrobyn, Houellebecq is hard to digest but he's an interesting writer, if somewhat of a facile cynic.

Also, it kind of is endemic, but not necessarily just among men. I run into a lot of people of both genders who don't read. I am constantly amazed by them.

Why, just the other night, it turned out my housemate had never heard of Geoffrey Chaucer. I mean, I can understand not having read any, but never having heard of him?

me too. i LOVE the books, i saw the play twice and the first time it was GREBT, second slightly less grebt (but partly cos y'know you get attached... and the girl who played lyra was the first girl who was called "upstairs" or whatever in doctor who in the simon pegg episode so i got more attached). seriously hope they don't fuck this up - the prob is it *can* be done really well - if they can do lotr they can do anything, right - so it's inexcusable if they do an h2g2 on it.

http://www.jimriegelphoto.com/Images/BookCover.jpg

because this is the weirdest thing i have ever seen and i must know more.

http://www.campaignleadership.com/blogger/uploaded_images/200px-Atlas_shrugged_cover-732433.jpg

yeah, even though parts of the story and some of the writing were compelling, the facile cynic part killed it for me. esp the facile part. i think i would've been into it when i was 17 though.

ok i decided that most books as gifts are going to fly with me, somehow, but if a guy gave me a card or notebook or godforbid a framed picture of, like, a black and white photo of two little kids in hobo outfits kissing and holding a hand-coloured red balloon or some crap, well, then no more dates.

This would annoy me with almost any book. Book club or relationship, not both.