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Post by Neffie on Oct 26, 2009 11:09:49 GMT -5
Hey, I have read a couple of books (woeful choice but what can you do?) one of the only ones I found remotely decent was James Pattersons The Midnight Club. It's not brilliant so won't gush but it ticks a couple of boxes although the romance is a little lame. There's really not much out there but the closet cases have been busy in fan fic and I admit I'm one of them! It was an early effort so forgive the typos etc but as it moves on it sort of develops I guess whit issues coming up later and paralysis is the central theme. It is a Supernatural fic so don't know if anyone likes the show but I love it personally. www.fanfiction.net/s/4194378/1/Crushed |
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Post by Ciao Bella on Dec 15, 2009 10:09:16 GMT -5
Does anyone watch Private Practice? I know I know it's lame but...they're got a new character Dr. Gabriel Fife who is a quadriplegic. So I did a bit of research, his real name is Michael Patrick Thornton and is a quad in real life. And he's not too bad to look at either  |
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Post by Ciao Bella on Dec 23, 2009 17:02:51 GMT -5
One late night I came across a Spanish film called The Sea Inside (translated). It was about a quad who started the campaign and fight for euthanasia. In his dealings, he meets a woman who turns out has MS. Anyway, the movie has some pretty underscored eroticism about it, like when she wheeled to his bedside and he started telling her what he wanted to do to her (the next scene shows him standing - this was his imagination btw - and sweeping her hair to one side, kissing her neck) cut to a close up of them kissing. Then there's Rosa, a girl who worked in a cannery who seemed totally taken in by Ramon (the quaddie), always wanting to come and shave him, bathe him, and do everything for him. In the end, when he loses his fight to die with dignity, she offers to help him. The beginning of the movie is quite dragging, but a good watch anyway esp. if you're an insomniac like me  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2010 17:41:15 GMT -5
The Juniper Bush
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Post by jess on Jun 6, 2010 10:54:33 GMT -5
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Post by dolly on Jun 24, 2010 20:21:36 GMT -5
hey bex. we talked about this on the board many moons ago.... but have you seen 'the haunted airman'?? it's robert pattison in a wheelchair! lol granted it's an old, rickety chair... but the miniseries does have some dev appeal. sounds like you should check it out if you haven't already. you can watch it on youtube: it's also available on dvd, i believe. enjoy!  |
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Post by dolly on Jun 24, 2010 20:25:58 GMT -5
;D
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Post by Valkyrja on Jun 24, 2010 22:15:02 GMT -5
I watched "The Haunted Airman" last week. OMG Pattinson like wheeler but... I didn´t like the movie... (and I must confess that I´m a dork too... I have the 4 books of the Twilight Saga!!)
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Post by Samantha on Jul 8, 2010 18:08:07 GMT -5
What site would you recommend for ebooks? One that has a descent selection of dev material
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Post by helena2902 on Sept 5, 2010 14:20:56 GMT -5
Hi Girls,
I'm new in this forum. Just today I leafed through a book I read years ago.
" The Countertenors Daughter" by Elizabeth Falconer. I only have it in German and I just ordered it at Amazon in English( because I haven't read a book in German for years).
It's about a guy( and his name is Guy!!) who has shattered and paralyzed legs since a childhood accident. He walks with legbraces and crutches and refuses the wheelchair until he falls in love again. Very romantic!!! And a happy ending!!
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Post by darkie on Nov 16, 2010 14:35:28 GMT -5
hi helena 2902, can you tell me the german title of the book you mentioned ?
i am austrian so german is my mothertongue.
thank you !
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Post by anais on Nov 26, 2010 8:41:18 GMT -5
Not sure this is the correct threat, nor that it wasn't mentioned before, but did anyone see the german movie "Phantom Pain" (2009)? www.imdb.com/title/tt1123970/ Watching it know and shievering. Highly recommended, not only for amuptee-preferring devs |
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Post by ruthmadison on Jan 7, 2011 16:20:56 GMT -5
this thread brings me back to the days I discovered Nancy Drew. After reading the whole collection, I turned my sights to Cherry Ames (also writtten by Carolyn Keene - pen name) who was an army nurse tending to the injured army men. I knew there was soomething strange going on when I was enjoying (indeed, rather envying the protagonist) reading the stories. Unfortunately, I don't think Cherry Ames took off as well as Nancy Drew. Did you ever read Captive Witness Nancy Drew? There is a guy in a wheelchair in that one. I loved it, except I will spoil the end ...and say that very upsettingly, he was faking. I still read it over and over, though, and just skipped the ending. I have only just discovered this "wounded hero" thing myself. I think I need to write some of these things |
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Post by ruthmadison on Jan 7, 2011 16:49:36 GMT -5
In fact one e-book publisher, Awe-struck publishing, has a line dedicated to romances with disabled characters. It's called Ennoble. I haven't read any of the books. I just went and looked and it seems like all the books are female disabled characters |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2011 15:53:22 GMT -5
...and say that very upsettingly, he was faking. I still read it over and over, though, and just skipped the ending. Ugh. I remember being a mini-Shanzi dev in 5th grade, and reading that one. I got to the ending and was just... irate. It wasn't long after that I started jotting down my own little dev stories. |
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