The not happy thread

Never heard of that. Apparently all they want to read is Charles Dickens and things about chimney sweepers. The only thing I enjoyed was that story about Jekyll and Hyde.

 

Jane Eyre really is wonderful, but it is very depressing.

 

Ah, it's an icredibly romantic story... though it may not seem like that at first.

Well, it has a happy ending...

 

So does Oliver Twist....After he's kidnapped a bunch of times, almost sent to the salt mines (or to a mine somewhere), shot in the back by robbers, and a whole hell of a lot of things that would send a 10-year-old boy straight to a pshycyatrist for PTSD.

 

Well fine...all but the last two pages are depressing. haha

 

Just for curiosity: Did Oliver Twist really get shot in the back? I read that passage and got very horrified and confused at the same time. If he got shot, how on earth did he survive?

 

Hmm, didn't he get shot while he was in the house of the guy that took care of him? And then I think they brought him back to Fagin where he got better again... I think. I may be completely wrong though.

 

I dunno. I remember basically they were gonna steal something from a house. Oliver was dispatched to a barn or somewhere in the upper levels of the home. Something freaky happens and the robbers decide to just shoot Oliver (squarely in the back) while they make their getaway. Really smooth move there if that happened, cause then through Oliver (dead or alive), they'll just be captured by the police.

 

I don't remember, to be honest.

But you should read Jane Eyre! It's by Charlotte Brontë- very good, IMO.

 

I'll give it a try.

 

Here's a hilarious Victorian novel. I quote from Wikipedia to give you the general idea:
"The Diary of a Nobody, an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith with illustrations by Weedon, first appeared in the magazine Punch in 1888 – 89, and was printed in book form in 1892."

It will soon have you out of the Not Happy thread.

But I'm not happy because I've come to a standstill in my novel (coincidentally set in the 1870s--because that was my specialist era in social history). I can't make the hero make a move on the heroine without him seeming disgustingly opportunist and dishonourable.

I always have the problem that readers expect people who lived 150 years ago to act/react exactly like they do now. Well, they truly didn't. But what the hell, it's just a story, and I've got to finish it soon as poss. I think it was the Mills and Boon writer Violet Winspear who said that her heros had to be 'capable of rape.' Yeah, well...

*gets back to work*

 

Getting off topic, folks.

 

This is going to sound stupid to some of you but I need to spill. I am tired of the men who think it's cool to go on and on about how much they "wanted" me, thought I was hot, fantasized about me, wanted to get me alone, and all that crap. It's always the same, the minute they discover that Larry and I have divorced they want to impress me with a sexy come on, o secret truth. Some of these guys were only his friend and seldom ever said two words to me. Now, they find me and seem genuinely nice at first and then these grown ass men turn into prepubescent school boys. I am just tired of it.

 

Cheer up sweet bear! They aren't worth a second of thought. Nice friends your ex husband has, by the way. And then they say things about women frenemies. Ha!

 

What a jerks... Just ignore them, Chimmy, they're not worth it at all.

 

Some men should have been castrated at birth.

I've heard that from a woman when speaking about jocks.

 

They'd say the same things, just with higher voices.

 

(Spits coke at the screen)

OMG, Gallow! XD There's not a laughing icon big enough to express the hilarity that is that post.

 

He is completely right though. For reprobates such as that, euthanasia is the only option

 

Yep.

C'mon boys! We've got jerks to castrate!

 

Why am I imagining a Barry White voice on helium?

 

Every single teacher wants
1) a paper due,
2) a test,
3) a revision,

and I'm exhausted. I'm never taking 19 credit hours again.

 

for some reason when I least suspected or wanted it, someone found me

unfortunately she's online and far away

two things that I have bad luck with and almost always fail...


why oh why can't I choose who I like? I feel like I'm in high school again


I've tried to imagine a hundred times where this will go, it rarely turns out good, no matter how much I want it to. she's just like a fantasy, sometimes I wonder if she's even real or I just dreamed her up

she is so sweet to me and tells me things that someone only says when they care about a person

that should be a good thing, why the hell do I feel so awful then?

 

Remember when I said I was getting excited about a book called "Abe Lincoln: Vampire Killer?" Well, I just did some more research only to find out that the author says it's based off of TRUE (not really, but it insists its true) accounts written in some journal Lincoln had.

Now I don't want to read the book. Historical fiction is fine, I like them, but if the author is insisting that it was real, then I get put off.

 

Ugh. Men like that need a good butt kicking.

It sounds to me like you're just psyching yourself out, convincing yourself it's never going to work. Just take things a day at a time and let it play out, don't doom it to failure before you've really given it a chance.

*hugs*