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Post by Inigo Montoya on Oct 30, 2011 19:05:46 GMT -5
This made me chuckle. I visited my parents last night after watching a movie at my cousin's house. So, at a little after midnight (all of us night owls in my fam) I'm in the 'rents' bedroom going through my mom's basket of smut books. (It's a family hobby/bad habit.) And she says, "There was one there that I meant to save for you but I've forgotten which one it was."
Me: "Oh? The guy was disabled?"
Mom: "Well, he was missing his leg from about the knee down. Would that work?"
Me: "That'll do it! lol"
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Post by dentelle on Oct 30, 2011 19:08:11 GMT -5
I like that  Hmmmmmm. I've read about every book my mother has and she's never read anything with a disabled guy in it. Atleast not to my knowledge |
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Oct 30, 2011 19:13:57 GMT -5
It's funny to me, in part, because I used to pad my smut book collection with books that didn't have dis/limping/etc heroes because I didn't want to be found out. Because we shared books.
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Post by Emma on Oct 30, 2011 19:25:46 GMT -5
Love it! I too have the issue of hiding what i read from my mother. Luckily I read about half dev books (thanks to our book club) and the other half are non-dev. The thing is she'd love to know I participate in a book and movie discussion group but yeah, I'm not sharing that with her. We don't have that type of relationship. Maybe one day......
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Post by Peony on Oct 31, 2011 4:58:14 GMT -5
Love it! I too have the issue of hiding what i read from my mother. Luckily I read about half dev books (thanks to our book club) and the other half are non-dev. The thing is she'd love to know I participate in a book and movie discussion group but yeah, I'm not sharing that with her. We don't have that type of relationship. Maybe one day...... Me neither...but I think it's so cool that you have such an 'earthy' (maybe not the right word?) relationship, though with your Mum, Inigo. And hey, she's looking out for you! I actually sometimes wonder about my Mum, she's definitely partial to some pretty wounded heroes  |
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Post by ruthmadison on Oct 31, 2011 7:44:16 GMT -5
Hahaha! That is awesome.
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Post by lavly on Oct 31, 2011 7:46:37 GMT -5
lolllllllll this so cool ... thats so love....
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Post by Valkyrja on Oct 31, 2011 12:49:56 GMT -5
My family knows nothing about my devness but... I don´t know if we are a "reader family" or a bunch of "hiden devs" because I´ve read kind of devs books since I was a child. For example, I remember my mom gave me a book name "Jack and Jill"... I was 6yo so, I can´t remember it very well but, I do recall that one of them was in a wheelchair after the accident. The cover was something like this:  Then, when I was about 7, my grandpa gave me "Heidi" (LOL) After that, when I was 9, I used to hide to read the Guy Des Cars book "The Brute" (El Solitario in spanish and La Brute in french; in 1987 they made the movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt0092703/)... then, my uncle gave me that book. A couple of years later, he gave me Julio Verne´s "Miguel Strogoff" (he is blinded by the Zsar enemies) And I can´t recall the others but... they always gave me books that had at least one disable character! LOL... Though I was always a dev, I was continuously fed with kinda dev literature! I began to buy my own books when I was 14 (I used the money they gave me to do that)! |
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Post by ruthmadison on Nov 1, 2011 7:45:51 GMT -5
My mom doesn't read fiction much. She doesn't understand why anyone would care about people who aren't real.
We're very different in that way! I try to explain that sometimes fiction is almost more real than real life, it can give us a template to understand life with. She gets bored by it.
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Post by Pisti on Nov 1, 2011 16:29:04 GMT -5
My first dev readings came also from my parent's bookshelves (like Raging Moon,...) - but they had so many books and so few dev related, I had to reread everything several times. And now we have several thousands of books on 7 languages - nobody would realise I have a small devy collection. |
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Post by Dee Dee on Nov 1, 2011 17:04:27 GMT -5
My first dev readings came also from my parent's bookshelves (like Raging Moon,...) - but they had so many books and so few dev related, I had to reread everything several times. And now we have several thousands of books on 7 languages - nobody would realise I have a small devy collection. For a book-lover like myself that sounds like a great collection Judit . I´m guessing Hungarian, Spanish, English - but which are the other four languages? |
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Post by Pisti on Nov 1, 2011 17:08:43 GMT -5
For a book-lover like myself that sounds like a great collection Judit . I´m guessing Hungarian, Spanish, English - but which are the other four languages? French, German, Dutch and Italian But in Italian I only have childrens books - yet. |
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Post by Dee Dee on Nov 1, 2011 17:31:42 GMT -5
For a book-lover like myself that sounds like a great collection Judit . I´m guessing Hungarian, Spanish, English - but which are the other four languages? French, German, Dutch and Italian But in Italian I only have childrens books - yet. Impressive . |
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Nov 1, 2011 18:51:53 GMT -5
Impressive . Impressive, indeed!! +2 |
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Post by BA on Nov 2, 2011 9:10:48 GMT -5
My parents probably wondered why their 2 volume set of Havelock Ellis' "Encyclopedia Sexualis" was always missing from the cabinet they thought they were hiding it in. Havelock talked about some mighty interesting things like women getting aroused by peeing in their knickers. I knew there was "something" out there - just not sure what. I couldn't believe my parents would even have such a book.
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Hmmmmmm. I've read about every book my mother has and she's never read anything with a disabled guy in it. Atleast not to my knowledge
