What was the last thing you read or saw that really screwed you up?

[curse10]

I started reading "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer last night at around 10:00 thinking I'd read a few chapters and go to bed. It's exam week for me so it was nice to get to bed at a reasonable hour. Well, 6 hours later I was still up. I couldn't stop reading the book. I wasn't tired, but I was exhausted. I could not stop reading. I had to know what happened. I became so attached that when the first person perished I broke down and cried. I finished the book. I tried to sleep, but couldn't. When I finally did I had horrible nightmares about being on top of Everest. I finally couldn't take the tossing and turning anymore and got up around 10:00. My mind was still obsessed with what happened in the book. I took a quick shower and now I've been looking at Everest pictures and accounts on the internet for the last two hours.

I can't remember the last time something burrowed into my mind so much. It's really freaky. I'm finally starting to calm down, which is good, I have an Evidence outline to prepare for tomorrow's exam.

It's so weird. I've never had any interest in Everest or mountaineering before, but now I can't get enough. It's like I'm a junky! The book just grabbed on to my psyche and wouldn't let go. And now I'm having a hard time escaping back into my normal everyday life. Thank god for DU. Maybe I'll go read a flame war in GD...

[Lavender Brown]

1. "House of Sand and Fog"

I couldn't sleep the night I saw it, it upset me that much. I'm usually not that susceptible to movies.

[curse10]

3. That movie was gripping

I had a similar reaction. I felt really depressed after watching it. Luckily I watched it with my boyfriend and we spend about an hour dissecting it afterwards. Really helped.

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. The Ring

Couldn't sleep the night I saw it. Gave me the willies all the next day.

[amber dog democrat]

6. seven days

that one got me too.

[sniffa]

10. try seeing it whiLe tripping

that was a very, very bad idea!

[curse10]

15. that movie was scary

but it didn't fuck me up

I think because it was obviously fiction :shrug:

[amber dog democrat]

4. ORYX and CRAKE

by Margaret Attwood. One of the more distubing sciene fiction works I ever read.
At the reading Ms Attwood said every thing in A Handmaid's tale happened in the US at one time or another. Oryx is one of the scarrier negative utopia books out there.

but read UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN by Jon Krakauer - if you want a dark and disturbing look at the splinter polygamous Morman sects. I could not put it down.

[curse10]

7. I think I've decided that Jon Krakauer is brilliant

part of this is his fault. I loved his writing. I'd never read anything by him before- this book was recommended to my boyfriend by the nurse on duty while he was having surgery.

I'll have to check out his other works.

[amber dog democrat]

8. Read A PERFECT STORM too.

its good. I found Krakauer's book on the renegade Mormans fascinating and very distrubing.

[StClone]

13. Read "into the Wild" also by Krakauer

Though slower paced, it's revelation is a warning for adventurers in search of their souls. highly recommended.

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. Pretty much anything anyone says to me lately.

I've been a little on edge.

[sui generis]

12. Hey whoisalhedges

I've been mean to you for fun - sort of like a biting fly or a gnat. Sorry. I know you're not really a marsupial and you have feelings too.

Seriously - I think everyone is kind of on edge lately; it's like we're all "cycling" together or something some days. Oh well, as long as we remember we're all on the same side . . .

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. Oh no, not the joke stuff.

That's all in good fun.

Just edgy, is all. ;)

[BigMcLargehuge]

9. The Rape of Nanking and Biological Unit 731

I stumbled on the later when I ran across a Chinese film named "Man Behind the Sun", and in researching Japanese war crimes in China, blundered into The Rape of Nanking.

For two years I did nothing but reasearch on these two places/events.

So much so that I've written a novel about The Rape of Nanking.

[sui generis]

11. bank statements & bills

I go ballistic every two weeks; totally fucking explode, and then I'm okay for two more weeks.

Everytime I think Freddy and Jason are finally dead for real they send me another bill. You know how it goes.

[topherX]

16. Reading about Christian Reconstructionism

really messed with my gray matter. Once I learned that one of my family members was eagerly looking forward to a theocratic society in America, I had to learn more. After reading about Christian Reconstructionism and Gary North in particular, my concept of religion has been skewed. I try to remind myself that this is an extremist, fringe school of Christian thought.

For a brief synopses visit:

http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/fundienazis/royal_race.htm

[jus_the_facts]

17. sElection 2000

:permanent scars: