Monday, July 11, 2005

Overheard

I overheard a discussion at the library this weekend between a young clerk and a teen-aged looking patron:

"What are those Left Behind books? Are they any good?"

"Um . . . they're . . . um . . . they're religious. They're about . . . like . . . the Rapture?"

"Oh."

"Yeah."

I wanted to hug them both.

3 comments:

BabelBabe said...

A coworker once recommended them to me. My reply (not really but I *thought* it really hard)?

"Sure, I'd love to read a book about something that traumatized me so greatly as a child I still have nightmares about it." Thank you for your kind intentions, but no.

Gina said...

Part of me thinks the books would be enormously entertaining, but there's the other part of me . . . the part that remembers lying in bed in grade school, straining to hear the sounds of sirens . . . I think those books would scare me.

BabelBabe said...

I read the first one - or I should say, I read the first twenty pages of the first one, skimmed the rest, and gave up. Although I found the non-Christian airplane pilot protagonist oddly interesting. Like a real person.