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01-07-2007, 12:49 AM
| | previously chemicalbaby. | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Dallas
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| | | Looking for fiction that takes place
in a hospital and i must state that i refuse to read anything with even the slightest mention of animal cruelty in it.. so yeah. just fiction that takes place in a hospital. can be romance, mystery, science fiction, just as long as it's a good read  thanks |
01-07-2007, 03:49 AM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brokebitch Mountain
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| | | Does mental hospital count? (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
And do you mean the whole way through or will a few chapters suffice? |
01-07-2007, 09:08 PM
|  | books written for girls | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | i'm thinking of girl, interrupted. |
01-08-2007, 04:36 AM
| | previously chemicalbaby. | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Dallas
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| | | Yes, mental hospitals definitely count and yes, chapters work. |
01-08-2007, 07:38 AM
|  | faghag | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: it varies.
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| | | prozac nation.
she's checked into stillman a few times..
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01-11-2007, 04:15 AM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brokebitch Mountain
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| | | "It's Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
nother mental hospital |
01-11-2007, 12:26 PM
|  | Woman Talking to Death | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brooklyn
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| | | I Never Promised You A Rose Garden. I think the author is Joanna Greenburg, but I'm not positive. Yet another mental hospital.
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01-12-2007, 03:34 AM
| | previously chemicalbaby. | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Dallas
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| | Thank you all!  |
01-16-2007, 10:28 AM
|  | bluebirds | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at the tragedy sale
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| | | I don't know if this is too late, but Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath is a short-ish story that takes place in a hospital.
Why do you refuse to read anything with animal cruelty in? That seems really odd to me. |
01-18-2007, 10:31 PM
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| | | A lot of "Choke" by Chuck Pahlaniuk takes place in a hospital. Not sure I remember animal cruelty in it though... maybe a gerbil up the ass. Funny book though. |
01-19-2007, 07:53 PM
|  | dance into the fire. | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | Valley of the dolls - Jaquelline Susann |
01-20-2007, 01:34 PM
|  | i'm so tired | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: my suspicious northwest
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| | I haven't read this in years but I really enjoyed it, this makes me want to revisit it: Quote:
Humor in the Hospital
By CAROLINE SEEBOHM
ALICE IN BED
By Cathleen Schine.
The idea of a story about a young woman who spends a year in bed suffering from a mysterious and painful joint disease does not immediately inspire confidence. It is a subject most often treated in nonfiction, such as Agnes de Mille's heroic stroke saga, "Reprieve," or Mary-Lou Weisman's moving "Intensive Care." But Cathleen Schine is no ordinary writer, and in this striking first novel she has created an extremely funny heroine whose hospital year is suffused with wit, pathos and frequently sex.
Alice Brody is 19 when she is struck down by an undiagnosable pain in her legs. "Am I delirious?" she asks hopefully. "Feverish," her mother says, wiping Alice's forehead with lavender water that she then absent-mindedly gives her daughter to drink. . Brody is often preoccupied, which is not surprising, since she has just been deserted by Brody, a fact that does not augur well for Alice's recovery. Alice, who was brought up uneventfully in Westport, Conn., is a student at Sarah Lawrence when the disease hits. Apart from a wayward father, an absent-minded mother, a petulant brother and a dog called Pookie, her life has been short on melodrama. But now Alice is condemned to a fashionable, nightmarish New York hospital. Sadistic doctors, mad nurses and the usual paraphernalia of modern medical technology haunt the patient as she stares at her intravenous tube and attempts to ease the pain by begging for more drugs, watching the hospital soaps on television and waiting for the regular visits of her two admirers, Dr. Davis, the 60-year-old eye surgeon, and Simchas Fresser, the wild hypnotist whom she suspects of having had an affair with her mother. Finally the disease slows and Alice moves into a rehabilitation institute where she falls temporarily in love with a blond surfer before she returns home.
The author took on a daunting challenge in choosing such an intractable plot. There is little suspense; there are no murders or exotic locales. The success of this novel depends entirely on the writing, in particular the quirky and often brilliant humor that runs through the book. Miss Schine's wit plays an essential counterpoint to the inevitable pain, confusion, incompetence and hopelessness that Alice endures lying immobile in a bed that becomes her only landscape.
The characters are all memorable, from the loving but distracted mother to Dr. Davis and Simchas Fresser. "Sometimes (Dr. Davis) sat by her bed chatting about how much fun it must have been to live in the Renaissance and wear tights," we are told. And "Simchas Fresser was the only person Alice had ever met who had actually bought something at Hammacher Schlemmer." When Alice finally leaves the hospital for the first time to spend a day at home, her mother writes down a schedule for "a lovely day": "1. A Nice Breakfast. 2. A Lovely Walk (This entry was crossed out). 2. An Errand. 3. Shopping. 4. Lunch at Rumpelmayer's" and so forth. A description of one of the Quad Squad (a group of young quadriplegics founded by a crippled policeman) reads, "Wispy hairs had gathered in informal groups on his cheeks."
The book is full of sparkle. In fact, its only lack is in what the textbooks call character development. Alice is funny and brave in the first chapter, and she is funny and brave in the last. Any moral or spiritual insights she might have had during her year's ordeal are not examined by the author. Cathleen Schine is such a good writer that it doesn't really matter, but the book might have had a little more weight. Her next novel will surely give us that also.
| http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/1...lice.html?_r=1 |
01-20-2007, 07:34 PM
| | i'm so tired | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: my suspicious northwest
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| | Another one, just a couple of scenes: Going Down, by Jennifer Belle. A couple of episodes, one in ER, the other in a hospital room. |
01-20-2007, 11:00 PM
|  | EXTERMINATE. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: aotearoa
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| | | part of Thin Skin by Emma Forrest is set in a hospital.
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01-22-2007, 12:42 AM
|  | ....er??? | | Join Date: Nov 2006
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| | | The House Of God - Samuel Shem
its all hospital all the time. |
01-22-2007, 02:54 AM
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| | | Tess Gerritsen writes medical thrillers that are supposed to be quite entertaining.
I think Robin Cook writes similar type novels. |
01-22-2007, 03:16 AM
|  | Jessica | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: California
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| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by lockshapedheart The House Of God - Samuel Shem
its all hospital all the time. | I was going to suggest this. Damn you.  |
01-23-2007, 04:07 PM
|  | mood to burn bridges | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: London
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| | | Janet Frame - Faces in the Water <3<3<3
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward
The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket
Freedomland - Richard Price
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
I've only read the first one...not sure about Freedomland but I'm guessing the others are awesome. |
01-25-2007, 06:12 PM
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| | | i forgot before - the diving bell and the butterfly.
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