[stylist] Reading scary/disturbing material

[vejas]

For these of you who read it I thought "Snow Flower and the 
Secret Fan" by Lisa See, was quite disturbing, and I couldn't get 
it out of my head for a while.
Vejas


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From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net
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Date sent: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:10:56 -0500
Subject: Re: [stylist] Reading scary/disturbing material

Bridgit,
Well, you're not the only one out there.  I can go over the edge 
also, and
I'm careful about what I read especially around the holidays.  My 
hubby wants
me to read some Greg Iles, but when I read the annotation on NLS, 
I had my
doubts.  I'm going to try though.  I am a huge Harry Potter fan, 
and there's a
lot in those books which is quite disturbing psychologically, but 
I managed
not to have much trouble.  We can't escape the dark side of life 
completely,
but some of us have to be a little more careful.
Donna


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Subject: [stylist] Reading scary/disturbing material

Shawn,

I like scary stuff but can't always handle it.  It's not so much 
the
reading, or watching in the case of films, that's the problem; 
it's my
over-active imagination that's the problem, smile.  At 30, I 
still will
freak out about supernatural beings under the bed or waiting to 
pounce
in the middle of the night or serial killers ripping the shower 
curtain
down before shredding me to pieces while I shower! And it's weird 
how I
can handle some things and freak out about others.  My hubby is 
really
into zombies; and we both enjoy the film 28 Days Later.  It's 
creepy and
violent, but I actually liked it and had no problem with it.  A 
couple of
years ago, a sequel came out, 28 Weeks Later, or something like 
that,
and I literally starting having a panic attack and left the room.  
Go
figure.  I've handled ghost stories and tales of the supernatural 
before,
but then I went into full panic attack the first time I read A 
Good
Man's Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor.  And demonic possession 
stuff is
usually always a huge no-no for me; that conservative, 
fundamental,
Babtist background is difficult to leave behind, ha-ha! So I 
never know
how I will react to scary and/or disturbing material.  Unless 
it's an
author I know and like, I make my husband read stuff and let me 
know if
I can handle it, and even then, it's no guarantee.  Okay, I'm one 
big hot
mess, smirk!

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/

"History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 08:38:59 -0500
From: "Jacobson, Shawn D" <Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov
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I remember reading "The Stand" and agree that it had a lot of 
gore and
disturbing images.  I did enjoy the book and found it 
interesting; but
then that's because this is more along my lines of taste than it 
would
be for you.

Shawn


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