love story, my backside.ok. admittably, i think it was a good book. but its hard to remember why because the horrific beginning involving that damn air balloon is the only thing my mind has retained.
the balloon, which i presume is the one on the cover with what seems to be an upward-looking eyeball, was carrying a little girl when it got blown off the ground and taken into the air. some fellas, i don't remember how many, grabbed the ropes attached to it but were unable to hold the damn thing down. they were thus lifted up, up and away.
slowly, the men started to fall one by one by one but for the last man hanging, who refused to release his grip as the balloon rose higher (cos obviously, it got lighter as the other men fell from it).
eventually, he did. of course. and when they found him on the ground, he was in somewhat of an upright, stumpy position, and looked from afar like he was praying on his knees.
u know why? well, the book explained in explicit detail that it was because he fell legs first in a vertical position, and his entire vertebrae column had collapsed along with everything else inside, or that's how i remember it. so it was literally a body bag of bones, organs and tissue. gross. so gross that i don't remember anything else in the book past this chapter.
thanks to sassy song, dear friend in hongkong, for changing my life with this book by so generously giving me one more phobia to deal with.
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So THAT is where my copy of "Enduring Love" went!!! I was just looking for it over Chinese New Year and secretly thought Mum had waited for me to leave the country before chucking it out ...
woman. u loaned it to me. and told me to keep it until after you got back from HK. better get on that medication again, sweetheart. ;)
by the way, they went and made a movie of it. with daniel craig some more. horrors.
What are you guys talking about??? Is this book any good ???
ya its good, esp the opening chapter. but if had to do it again, i'd rather just watch the movie.
Yah, definitely need my meds. Brain's like a sieve for all the important information, e.g. name of the cute bloke in the orange jumpsuit I met a couple of weeks ago and have a text message "relationship" with. Slightly disconcerting to get messages from "Orange Jumpsuit" ...
Bandarof> Yes, book's very good. Read it.
urm. orange jumpsuit? is this a cry for help, sass?