Just remembered
Many many years ago when suddenly admitted to hospital very late at night, my flatmate asked me what she should bring in for me the following morning.
Amongst the usually needed things I asked if she could pick up a book for me as i wasnt sure how long I would be in, and this was in the days long before you could pay for TV and internet.
The book she brought in?
'Coma'
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 0:12, 8 replies)

And this prompts the added memory of
Sitting in the dayroom, attached to a drip while watching a tiny communal TV.
Gets into a conversation with a sweet little old lady who when finding out I was (then) a vegetarian, informed me very matter of factually that if ate meat like most normal people I wouldnt be in hospital bleeding out of several of my orifices.
Nice.
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 0:35, closed)

The Stand
would have been a worse choice.
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Thu 10 Nov 2011, 0:51, closed)

I recognise that as a Stephen King book
But having never actually read it, I cant really comment
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 0:56, closed)

it's an apocolyptic thriller
and basically a guy who was the 'last man standing' as everyone else in the hospital - staff, patients, visitors - died around him.
Then he saved the world from evil or something.
I don't really remember as I haven't read it since high school.
Or he could have been in jail? Like I said - years since I read it.
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Thu 10 Nov 2011, 1:07, closed)

Nice precis
You should write cover-blurb for a living. It would prove more of a deterrent to the consumption of literature than the fires that burned the Library of Alexandria.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 2:23, closed)

This is a Stephen King book.
Not The Illustrated Works of Aristotle and Friends.
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Thu 10 Nov 2011, 4:21, closed)

It would have been a worse choice indeed
Because it's a fucking shite book.
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 6:11, closed)

ah.
burn it, then?
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Thu 10 Nov 2011, 6:31, closed)