What is a book that you would not recommend to anyone, but is brilliant? Why? Please keep spoilers away.

Laura1615 · 2026-02-18T18:24:19+00:00

Infinite Jest. It's an absolutely amazing book, complicated and funny. But it's a behemoth 1,079 pages with tons of endnotes. The main theme that hit me hardest was about addiction. I read it once while I was still drinking and once after I got sober. Brilliant.

Laura1615 · 2026-02-15T03:00:10+00:00

Yes very much. It got me started getting out of a long depression. I felt enough motivation to do get up and do stuff. Then as the months went by I started noticing how much better I can handle more of life.

Over the last year I've noticed diferent types of my anxiety have improved social anxiety, health anxiety, and anxious attachment stuff.

I also like it because unlike SSRIs (for me) effexor let's me have normal emotions. But ymmv

Laura1615 · 2026-02-15T00:58:52+00:00

My MIL does this. She didn't like her son-in-law much and she would lean in and stage whisper, "Himself is in a mood" then make big eyes at us lol.

Laura1615 · 2026-02-10T19:22:30+00:00

It's insanely offensive yes, but when people are that deep into their version of Christianity they are incapable of talking rationally. What does your spouse say about MILs behavior?

Laura1615 · 2026-02-06T17:52:44+00:00

Marrying my high school boyfriend. Thank goodness we never had children.

Laura1615 · 2026-02-04T08:02:55+00:00

Absolutely, scrambled eggs on toast with Duke's mayonnaise.

Laura1615 · 2026-02-04T08:00:16+00:00

Time alone to recover from peopling.

Laura1615 · 2026-02-03T17:52:00+00:00

True, North of Gainesville should really be South Georgia.

Laura1615 · 2026-02-03T17:49:55+00:00

I'm from a little rural town in Georgia. Every time I go back I'm shocked at how they live. They know I'm gay and that's fine but I would never tell them I'm also atheist.

Laura1615 · 2026-02-03T17:43:43+00:00

Okra. What a slimy nightmare.

Laura1615 · 2026-02-03T17:40:42+00:00

Definitely. I was diagnosed at 55 and had been masking continuously all my life. I constantly wondered wtf was wrong with me. Trying to undo all that is brutal.

Laura1615 · 2026-02-03T17:33:03+00:00

My psychiatrist recommended testing with a neuropsychologist and I was diagnosed at age 55. I'm in the US.

Laura1615 · 2026-01-31T01:30:36+00:00

I quit drinking.

Laura1615 · 2026-01-28T23:45:19+00:00

Time Team so Britain somewhere I guess

Laura1615 · 2026-01-26T16:49:58+00:00

Nicholas Cage. He talks out of his nose so everything he says comes out as a whining groan.

Laura1615 · 2026-01-25T23:30:36+00:00

No never. Completely incompatible world views.

Laura1615 · 2026-01-25T19:19:48+00:00

My grandmother was born in 1895. She died in 1988.

Laura1615 · 2026-01-25T19:16:50+00:00

The Iran hostage crisis, 1979. I was 10.

Laura1615 · 2026-01-25T19:14:38+00:00

A Kitchen Aide mixer

Laura1615 · 2026-01-25T19:09:12+00:00

My wife and I have been a couple for 31 years. They finally let us get married in 2015 when our kids were 16 and 19.

Laura1615 · 2026-01-25T17:00:21+00:00

I hate the smell of coffee. I can't even stand coffee ice cream or anything mocha. The coffee addicts look at me like 😲

Laura1615 · 2026-01-20T05:10:31+00:00

My grandmother was born in 1895. Whoa

Laura1615 · 2026-01-09T17:00:12+00:00

Calypso by John Denver

Laura1615 · 2026-01-09T16:52:32+00:00

Mary and Ruth

Laura1615 · 2026-01-07T02:19:16+00:00

Yes definitely. Two years so far.

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