Loved that one. The fact that Ted Bundy worked at a suicide prevention hotline and potentially saved more lives than he took is forever burned into my brain. Put together with past experiences it's made me forever suspicious of good intentions. Just because you can't understand how someone doing something nice for you could be a monster doesn't mean you aren't dealing with a sick ****.

You think suicide prevention hotlines actually save lives?

Just asking. I have my doubts.

And if they do talk people out of it is that really helping them?

I read that book but I forgot that by the way. I’d love to hear recordings of the calls he received. To think you could call suicide prevention and the person is actually a sadist who is taking great delight in hearing about your misfortune. That’s creepy af.

**** if I know, but I did say "potentially".

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****ing chilling. But if you want true evil (might be a bit hard on you Steph, being a nanny and all, but definitely worth reading)

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Why would you want to read a book about Jimmy Savile?

Do you like being depressed m8?

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City—Clifford D. Simak (1952)
A connected series of short stories about the fall of humanity and the civilization of intelligent dogs left behind. The book is essentially supposed to be a collection of folklore that has come down through the millennia and the dog scholars of the future debate whether or not it's actually history about real creatures called humans or if humans are just a bit of mythological symbolism. It's whimsical and philosophical and there's something very sweet about it. It reminds me a little of Ray Bradbury. Anyway, I'm enjoying it.

It's good to be informed. Plus Karen likes macabre stories. Very upsetting though, but then, if you only read stuff that didn't upset you, you'd be left with romance novels and fairy tales and stories about rabbits visiting teddy bears for tea, now wouldn't you?

Edit: also, they were recs for WWWP, who asked for such fare.
Wow! That takes me back. Tried to read that as a teenager but could not get into it.

Well, maybe now is the time to give it another shot.

Or not. I don't remember enjoying it, so I can't really see any reason to try again. Also, I don't really read that much sci-fi anymore. Did that to the max in my twenties, that and fantasy, but I kind of moved a little beyond it now I guess. Trying to expand my literary mind/experience a bit more.