November 29th, 2010 / 5:26 pm
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Alexis Orgera—
What’s the best in-bed-with-a-flu/fever-book to read? And why?
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harry potter
When I’m sick and feverish, I like to peruse Alan Moore.
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.
The Temptation to Exist – E.M. Cioran
Ubik by Philip K. Dick, you’ll dream yourself back to health or die in your rented room
http://www.amazon.com/Chicken-Soup-Writers-Soul-Rekindle/dp/1558747699
duh.
harry potter
post office
anything by dr seuss generally goes well with massive amounts of cold medicine…
A Clockwork Orange? You can blame not understanding all the words on the fever
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
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 :)
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.
When I’m sick and feverish, I like to peruse Alan Moore.
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.
“Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (Katherine Anne Porter’s Spanish influenza novella)
Junky, Naked Lunch
why not?
Sutree
Stories of Noel Coward or Maugham.
I’ll choose Chew-Z!
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.
cannery row or hot water music. short and fun.
oh phuck and Franny and Zooey
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.
yay!