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April 23, 2006
I am sentimental
Okay, I've been reading a number of biographies lately. But I tend to stop before the last chapter, because they all have (when you get down to it) tragic endings. Is it me? Am I weird?
Posted by Mac Thomason at April 23, 2006 04:48 PM
Comments
I always read the endings first.
Posted by: Paul at April 23, 2006 04:50 PM
Why? They're always the same. Dead, buried, legacy.
Posted by: Mac Thomason at April 23, 2006 05:02 PM
Just read autobiographies from now on...
Posted by: E. Nonee Moose at April 23, 2006 05:30 PM
Whose have you been reading?
Posted by: Susan at April 23, 2006 05:48 PM
Mostly baseball players.
Posted by: Mac Thomason at April 23, 2006 05:51 PM
Why? I'm always interested in how they died. It manufactures a sense of dramatic irony when reading the rest of the book.
It's like knowing what happens in Deliverance, then watching it again a few years later. When you see Ned Beatty, all you can think is, "You gonna get raped."
Posted by: Paul at April 23, 2006 09:03 PM
"Due to complications from steriod abuse" will probably be how a lot of them end 30 or so years from now...
Posted by: E. Nonee Moose at April 23, 2006 11:53 PM