November 29th, 2010 / 5:26 pm
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What’s the best in-bed-with-a-flu/fever-book to read? And why?

25 Comments

  1. michael

      harry potter

  2. Matthew Simmons

      When I’m sick and feverish, I like to peruse Alan Moore.

  3. NLY

      The first time I read the Autobiography of Red I was laid up with lung coming out my eyelids. It reads like a fever dream anyway.

  4. Lincoln Michel

      The Temptation to Exist – E.M. Cioran

  5. crookteethsmile

      Ubik by Philip K. Dick, you’ll dream yourself back to health or die in your rented room

  6. Guest
  7. michael

      harry potter

  8. Vladmir

      post office

  9. chris r

      anything by dr seuss generally goes well with massive amounts of cold medicine…

  10. Marian May Kaufman

      A Clockwork Orange? You can blame not understanding all the words on the fever

  11. Mike Young

      the end of Suttree where he has cholera, i think it is? could be a different ailment. but his fever wreck is mccarthy’s romp.

      also sometimes a great notion is dense and damp for this purpose.

      i am glad you asked this. for some reason this is a subject i have thought way too much about

  12. alexisorgera

      I’ve been meaning to read Suttree for at least 3 years now. Maybe I’ll pick it up. I feel a fever coming on :)

  13. mjm

      I’m not sure, I had a fever and strep throat. It was a fantasy book, I think. Had the word beryl in it. Falcon too, maybe. It was a big book. And I remember the last fifty pages were torn out for some reason. I remember it was good though.

  14. Matthew Simmons

      When I’m sick and feverish, I like to peruse Alan Moore.

  15. NLY

      The first time I read the Autobiography of Red I was laid up with lung coming out my eyelids. It reads like a fever dream anyway.

  16. Kyle Minor

      “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (Katherine Anne Porter’s Spanish influenza novella)

  17. Jonny Ross

      Junky, Naked Lunch

      why not?

  18. Sean

      Sutree

  19. Bttrbrgr

      Stories of Noel Coward or Maugham.

  20. Hank

      I’ll choose Chew-Z!

  21. Strikes

      I read the Moomin books and comics a lot when I’m sick. It’s not even nostalgia, I had never heard of them as a kid. Something about them is comforting, maybe that she doesn’t spare or forgive anyone the way those sorts of books tend to do.

      I usually go for more compact things. The first time I tried to read Lord of the Rings I was sick, and hated it.

      I have only ever read Ghost Machine by Ben Mirov sick in bed, but loved it then.

      When I was a lot younger I read Peter Bell the Third and Lord Byron’s Don Juan in one sitting when I was feverish, and I decided then that the Romantics had probably never been sick before or always were. For some reason I still think of them that way.

  22. Shane Leach

      cannery row or hot water music. short and fun.

  23. Shane Leach

      oh phuck and Franny and Zooey

  24. Rob

      The Journal of Albion Moonlight, Eden Eden Eden, Darkness Moves: a Henri Michaux Anthology, The Beetle Leg, Molloy, How Late It Was, How Late, and The People of Paper.

  25. alexisorgera

      yay!