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hedgehog

(36,286 posts) Mon Aug 6, 2012, 07:29 PM Aug 2012

This is what happens when you stay away from 24 hour tv news:

Someone at book club made a comparison to Batman, and I thought she was talking about the movie, not the massacre!

I'm not really out of it, but I tend to take the long view (global climate change, high rate of shootings in our cities every day for example) rather than get caught up in the latest story of the moment.

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This is what happens when you stay away from 24 hour tv news: (Original Post) hedgehog Aug 2012 OP

how was the comparison made ? JI7 Aug 2012 #1

We were talking about why someone released the pulse in the Steven King novel "Cell", hedgehog Aug 2012 #2

I hated that book so much Scootaloo Aug 2012 #3

JI7

(89,249 posts)

1. how was the comparison made ?

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Aug 6, 2012, 07:33 PM

Aug 2012

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)

2. We were talking about why someone released the pulse in the Steven King novel "Cell",

Reply to JI7 (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 6, 2012, 07:40 PM

Aug 2012

and someone said something like "there's no explaining some things, like at the Batman movie"

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)

3. I hated that book so much

Reply to hedgehog (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 6, 2012, 07:43 PM

Aug 2012

The ending was classic Steven King; "Haha, I made you read 400 pages for no payoff!"

It's the first and only book I have actually put in the garbage. And I have sworn off reading more of his work since. I'll keep some of the books of his I enjoy (Eyes of the Dragon, Desperation / The Regulators, The Talisman, etc) but I'll be damned if I'm paying for any more.

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