Are you ready to read novels about the Covid 19 Pandemic?
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
Eugene, Oregon
November 12, 2021 5:03pm CST
If you are, they are here and more are coming. I love to read, but to relive any part of the last two years worth of masking, vaxing, not vaxing, fighting about vaxing, emergency rooms, hiding out at home does not interest me at all.
I wonder how soon the Pandemic movies will be out? Too soon no doubt.
What about "Pandemic" : The Musical?
Are you anxious to relive some of that for entertainment?
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
12 Nov 21
I read a lot but already know too much about Covid 19... I'm not interested in reading anything about it now.
I can't remember, did I offer you the free ebook site I use?
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
12 Nov 21
@JamesHxstatic Okay, no problem. I prefer to read an actual book, too, but we moved into a smaller house so I don't have room for real books anymore. *shrug* I can read the ebooks on my phone.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Nov 21
@DaddyEvil True, I have so many books around here to read now it's crazy.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
12 Nov 21
No, but I have to hold a book in my hands to read it. I'm really old fashioned.
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@allknowing (135943)
• India
13 Nov 21
@JamesHxstatic Our TV bellows it out every second minute
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Nov 21
@allknowing I'm sure it does. It is hard to escape.
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@divalounger (6117)
• United States
12 Nov 21
I watched Outbreak at the beginning of all this--but I am a bit far from pandemic novels for fun
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@divalounger (6117)
• United States
14 Nov 21
@NJChicaa Its on my list to watch---but it may be a while before I get to it
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Nov 21
Right, we want to get away from the whole thing.
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@NJChicaa (119521)
• United States
12 Nov 21
I showed the movie "Contagion" to my students a couple of weeks ago and they weren't shocked by it. It came out in 2012 or 2013 back when what we've lived was unthinkable.
If you want a good true-story virus book read The Hot Zone. It deals with Ebola. We had Ebola in I think Virginia years ago!
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@divalounger (6117)
• United States
12 Nov 21
The hotzone is a great book--scary though
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@snowy22315 (180399)
• United States
12 Nov 21
No, and if it ever ends I never want to hear about it again. The most gigantic PIA of my life..and that doesn't even consider the massive horror and loss of life and grief it has caused for innocent families.
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@snowy22315 (180399)
• United States
12 Nov 21
@JamesHxstatic That's fine with me, as long as events can carry on, and we can eventually ditch the masks.
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
12 Nov 21
Right @Snowy. It would be great if it fades into history, but we may see vaccines from now on.
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@kaylachan (69258)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Nov 21
That would be a hard no. While I feel like I live in this bubble, I don't need to see or hear a dramatized retelling of the past couple of years. Living it once is enough, thank you.
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@kaylachan (69258)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Nov 21
@JamesHxstatic My husband says that he's seeing people get tired of it, but it's become a cash cow they are trying to milk as long as possible. Thank god they finally stopped all this extra govornment help. Not that I'm not tthankful for it, but I think it hurt us more than it helped us.
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There is a movie called "Contagion", you should watch if you have not.@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
19 Nov 21
No novels for me. I like to write short things like poems and stories.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Nov 21
There may have been some. Hollywood doesn't miss much.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Nov 21
Me too. We have been and are living in it. It hasn't been fun.
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Nov 21
I would not expect best sellers, but who knows?
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
12 Nov 21
Instead of the Titanic, it will be the Pandemic! I am so sick of reading false news, false reports, constant badgering and fighting about everything pertaining to the Covid virus! A person murdered because his sister didn't wear a mask! It's insanity, I'd never read a book or watch a movie about the past two years of mass confusion and constant turmoil.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
12 Nov 21
Maybe another generation will be ready for it, but not me either.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Nov 21
There are some already some (many) being released.
NEW YORK (AP) — Near the end of 2020, the pandemic had lasted long enough for author Jodi Picoult to try something that seemed unthinkable for novelists in its early stages — turn it into fiction.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Nov 21
@Vree0937 Only the publisher decides when books come out in the US.
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@Vree0937 (3879)
• Indonesia
13 Nov 21
@JamesHxstatic wow. so its already allowed in US.
we still have no local books about COvid yet
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@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
13 Nov 21
We're still not out of the pandemic, so I'm really not in the mood for novels about it. However, some good non-fiction books on population health and emerging infectious diseases always are welcome on our shelves here.
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@LeaPea2417 (37350)
• Toccoa, Georgia
13 Nov 21
I recently thought about how they will make pandemic movies.
@Scrapper88 (5983)
• United States
12 Nov 21
I would be interested in what they have to say in the books.
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