Re: Off disaster stories after going through one?


tunet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How have events in your life changed your reading habits?
>
> As a kid I loved disaster stories. In most the good guys
> survived and learned an important lesson coming out better people than
> they had going in. Alas Babylon and Lucifer's Hammer to name a couple.
> The ones where everyone kicks the bucket scared me crapless, Level 7
> and On the Beach to name a couple more. I feel like a wimp when I tell
> folks that one of the stars in my scariest movies was Fred Astaire...
>
> After last year's storms I have had no desire to pick up one of
> my old books. St. Petersburg here. Our worst was a 26 hour blackout.
> Going down to Punta Gorda to see what was left seemed to flip a switch.
> Charley had been tracked to come into the mouth of Tampa Bay.

I know what you mean although no books' names come to mind. I can tell
you that although I didn't consciously make the connection, a TV drama
where a character was poisoned and copiously bled to death (the drama
may not have been as serious as it liked to pretend) really got to me,
it felt a little bit like post traumatic stress disorder is described,
and I belatedly made the connection to a recent experience at the time
of seeing my elderly father struggling with an unstoppable nosebleed
during one evening visit: it doesn't sound much but you can't just sit
around and bleed especially where you breath, so we called out the
doctor first, and after things seemed to be okay and I'd left it
started up again and the 'rents ended up at the hospital in the small
hours getting Dad's nasal blood vessels fixed.

It occurs to me I never asked Mum if the show upset her, as in fact we
were all watching it together (I didn't ask Dad either), but it was her
damn show anyway (Taggart, wildly macabre crimes in Glasgow, Scotland),
I never liked it, and she could have switched it off if she wanted.

.

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