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Old 07-07-2023, 12:44 PM   #1471
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I can't remember what it was called, but I vaguely remember a novel involving a teenager seeking medical emancipation (something about an organ donation for a family member, I think - this was maybe a decade ago I read it).

The entire plot was kind of nullified because the author had her get run over by a car at the end.
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Old 07-07-2023, 03:00 PM   #1472
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Pet words. The word "brume" has come to feel like an icepick in the eye whenever it occurs in the book I'm reading (and it occurs a lot). It's approaching levels akin to Stephen R Donaldson's abuse of "puissance."
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Old 07-07-2023, 04:09 PM   #1473
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Pet words. The word "brume" has come to feel like an icepick in the eye whenever it occurs in the book I'm reading (and it occurs a lot). It's approaching levels akin to Stephen R Donaldson's abuse of "puissance."
I got heartily sick of hearing about gambrel roofs while reading Lovecraft.
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My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
I'll avoid that, thanks. Maybe we need a thread of name & shame as a public service of books with totally unacceptable endings?
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Old 07-07-2023, 05:30 PM   #1475
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I got heartily sick of hearing about gambrel roofs while reading Lovecraft.
The house I was raised in had a Gambrel roof. In my case, it was the Attic, where you could still stand up in places other than the center.
Some houses , this contained the 2nd (US), (1st UK) floor and the rooms had dormer window nooks.
Very nice with no snow build up worries
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Old 07-07-2023, 05:42 PM   #1476
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I can't remember what it was called, but I vaguely remember a novel involving a teenager seeking medical emancipation...
You postneeds a spoiler and so do any other messages that has this spoiler quoted. It's not fair to give away the ending of a book some may want to read.
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Old 07-07-2023, 06:09 PM   #1477
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Oh for god's sake.
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Old 07-07-2023, 06:23 PM   #1478
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You postneeds a spoiler and so do any other messages that has this spoiler quoted. It's not fair to give away the ending of a book some may want to read.
They may need brain bleach afterwards. There are + & - to the idea of a spoiler on an ending most people might feel is objectional, though some might argue it's a question of taste.

I've read books I wish I hadn't.
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Old 07-07-2023, 07:34 PM   #1479
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Considering I didn't even know the name of the book...
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I got heartily sick of hearing about gambrel roofs while reading Lovecraft.
Oh man, Lovecraft was the king of pet words. There's so many of them, but the one that immediately springs to mind is 'cyclopean'
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Oh for god's sake.
No, no, he might have a point. I was waiting in the queue to watch William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (the DiCaprio one) and remarked to my friend about
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My friend was extremely cross. And I don't think she was joking.
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Hideous, nameless horrors. Who were probably a bit swarthy.
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No, no, he might have a point. I was waiting in the queue to watch William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (the DiCaprio one) and remarked to my friend about
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My friend was extremely cross. And I don't think she was joking.

STILL less stupid than demanding someone give a spoiler warning for a book they can't even identify.
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Considering I didn't even know the name of the book...
But now that the book was mentioned, it's spoiled.
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Yes, but I didn't expect anyone else to mention the name of it.

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