WW not-quite-book club

TheDuckis

I think we need one of these, where we read horrible crap a la Missy Flow and then pull it to pieces.

I'm nominating the no longer quivering blog as our first not-quite-a-book. The woman is typing out her story piece by piece on the internet in hopes that she'll get a publishing deal, because she's clearly done a lot of research into how to get a book published. 

Anyway, it's a harrowing story of a girl who married at 16, had a baby at 19, found Jesus, divorced her husband, married a blind man, and decided to procreate recklessly with him. I'm guessing by the title of the blog that she realizes the error of her ways, but not until after her oldest daughter has to be committed for attempting suicide. I can't wait for that part of the story. 

Please somebody else read it so I have someone to share all my HOLY SCHIT!!s and WHAT THE FLUCK??s with. kthx. 

In the mean time, GBCK, please tell me how far you've gotten so I can page you every time I read something particularly ridiculous. 

katorigasuki

i read that train wreck.

first of all...there is NO WAY that nightmare is true.  it just can't be! 

i kept wanting to yell at the screen, WHY THE FLUCK DON"T YOU JUST DUMP THE MFER IF YOU DON"T LIKE HIM SO MUCH!!!!??!?!

why on earth was she waiting for everyone else in her life to give her an excuse to dump him!?

it was like TIP on steroids.

L_Woods

I skipped ahead to part 17. It's actually interesting to me at that point though (it's where the quiverful lifestyle becomes her lifestyle).

LnR70707

how am I supposed to find the story in the rest of that mess?!

edit: nevermind, I found it.

L_Woods

And I'm pretty sure the "I hate him" vibe stems from the fact she's out of the quiver now.

GBCK

I JUST finished (er, read part 27/28) but haven't read all of the 'gallery of crap" yet.

I want to be paged w/ the reidculousness.

Because I do identify with it to much.

TheDuckis

OMG. Her first attempt at home birth. From the first sentence I was all, "Hello, gestational diabetes!" She tries so hard to make herself appear smarter than anyone else around her, but what person of average intelligence doesn't think to call a doctor when they DOUBLE THEIR WEIGHT during pregnancy???

And the writing. It's at least coherent. But you can't tell me over and over again that your husband is stupid and stubborn about "everything" without giving a single concrete example. 

hmonkey

TheDuckis:

married a blind man, and decided to procreate recklessly with him.

i'm out.  you all know i hate blind people, so unless this is about blind people shttalk, i'm out.

TheDuckis

hmonkey:

TheDuckis:

married a blind man, and decided to procreate recklessly with him.

i'm out.  you all know i hate blind people, so unless this is about blind people shttalk, i'm out.

No, you are IN. It is totally shttalk.

A) her husband has to be fastidious about cleaning because otherwise he can't find stuff and he won't know if he missed any dirt unless he sweeps every inch 3 times. But he holds everyone in the family to the same standards even though 1 sweep will do for those who can see what they missed.

He has cognition issues due to not being able to read visual clues, and basically whenever he opens his mouth he makes no sense. But he has to be "right" because he's the head of the family, so he forces the children to agree with all the nonsense he says.

C) He can't hold a job due to his disability, which means he can't truly be the head of the family, so she has to subversively lead while letting him think he's in control.

AugustPenguin

for those of you who watch Secret Lives of Women on WE, this lady was featured on the "Born to Breed" episode

**Stinky!**

We're talking about EK & Dan, right? We must be.

LnR70707

I didn't even make it through the first chapter.

It was early Fall and soon Bryan would be leaving with his family to California. He was so dejected and really quite unbearable. He was at our house for dinner one evening when Mom said she wanted to talk to us...... I was the only obstacle standing in the way of Mom getting married ~ she asked for my paper and, with her signature, sealed my fate. Scott and I were getting married.

FAIL

GBCK

L&R70707:

I didn't even make it through the first chapter.

It was early Fall and soon Bryan would be leaving with his family to California. He was so dejected and really quite unbearable. He was at our house for dinner one evening when Mom said she wanted to talk to us...... I was the only obstacle standing in the way of Mom getting married ~ she asked for my paper and, with her signature, sealed my fate. Scott and I were getting married.

FAIL

She does say in her intro that she changed names so not to be libelous and then said "meh, let 'em sue" and changed 'em back.   And may have missed some.

But, yeah, she needs a good editor.

GBCK

(PS, I basically got to the end I think and, spoiler, no suicide attempt.

She's still writing that maybe?  or it's hidden on the site?)

**Stinky!**

So I'm clear... she wants to make this into a book? Why is she putting this out on the interwebz where everyone can read it if she wants to make money off it?

Dum dum dum. 

TheDuckis

Yeah, the Bryan/Scott thing happens throughout. But I haven't found any other name discrepancies.

Heffalump

I just started this, and already I'm all WTF?

She was praying that he wouldn't ask her out.  "Alas ~ my god did not come through for me. On January 12, 1981, Bryan asked me to be his girlfriend and though the idea was not the least appealing to me, I said, okay. He was a smoker and I couldn?t stand that ~ plus, he was stupid and proud of it."

So...couldn't she have just said no thanks? 

Cant_wait!

can you link to it again?

 

ETA: nevermind. I am stupid. I found the link in your op  

katorigasuki

I wasn?t really worried about leaving my two-year-old in the care of a blind man because I could see that he had a way of really managing his environment so that he always knew what was going on

 

 

this chick is BEYOND stupid.  yet, i can't look away.

**Stinky!**

I've only read the first entry and already I'm sick of her "I'm the victim of everyone else in my life" attitude.

All because she's a doormat.  

GBCK

I want to know about this 'blind school' she refers to.

I drive past the school for the blind...but I think this is different.

(although a family friend who was blinded did indeedy go to 'school' to learn some stuff--like how not to die)

TheDuckis

GBCK, there's something in the earlier posts/letters to her uncle where she says that while she was writing the letters in defense of her faith, her oldest daughter was hospitalized for a suicide attempt. I figured she'd get to that part of the story later, but I don't think she's quite done yet...

TheDuckis

**Stinky!**:

I've only read the first entry and already I'm sick of her "I'm the victim of everyone else in my life" attitude.

All because she's a doormat.  

Especially when it becomes apparent that she actively sought out people who she deemed to be less intelligent than she is. She seems to take pride in how stupid she thought both her husbands were. 

hmonkey

where is the start?  is it book project?

maybe i need to start having more sympathy for the blind because i'm not seeing this.  okay, i won't but i thought about for a second.

Heffalump

TheDuckis:

**Stinky!**:

I've only read the first entry and already I'm sick of her "I'm the victim of everyone else in my life" attitude.

All because she's a doormat.  

Especially when it becomes apparent that she actively sought out people who she deemed to be less intelligent than she is. She seems to take pride in how stupid she thought both her husbands were. 

I can't read anymore b/c of this.  I already want to shake her.

"I didn't want to marry him, but his parole officer thought it was a great idea."

"I didn't want to marry him, but my guidance counselor signed off on it."

Jeebus, lady.

L_Woods

With Angel and Berea, the church ladies had given me a baby shower ~ lots of cute baby gifts and plenty of diapers. But with our third baby ~ especially after the ultrasound revealed that we were having another girl ~ they must have figured that we already had everything we needed and so there was no shower ~ no gifts, no nothing.

After my first two babies were born, I received lots of cards and flowers and I had women at my home every day delivering casseroles, helping straighten the house, offering to do laundry or run errands ~ I felt cared for and supported. But when Chass? was born, no-one came to see me in the hospital, and only one neighbor brought a meal.

So I guess you're even more greedy when you're poor and have too many kids?

GBCK

yeah, I was just kinda hoping for more than "Angel tried to off herself.  More on that later" ...

but taht's me being all voyur.

And I swear, this could be my family.  Not immediate (they're ot this crazy) but cousins?  hells yes.

TheDuckis

L_Woods:

With Angel and Berea, the church ladies had given me a baby shower ~ lots of cute baby gifts and plenty of diapers. But with our third baby ~ especially after the ultrasound revealed that we were having another girl ~ they must have figured that we already had everything we needed and so there was no shower ~ no gifts, no nothing.

After my first two babies were born, I received lots of cards and flowers and I had women at my home every day delivering casseroles, helping straighten the house, offering to do laundry or run errands ~ I felt cared for and supported. But when Chass? was born, no-one came to see me in the hospital, and only one neighbor brought a meal.

So I guess you're even more greedy when you're poor and have too many kids?

According to the bible, God blesses you first with children, and then with wealth. So it makes no sense to wait until you can afford children, you just have to trust God to provide for you once they come. 

I never realized how completely ass backward the fundamentalist logic is. There's also a lot of talk in the story about education/financial security/general responsibility not mattering because the End of Days is coming soon, as well as the view that it's counterproductive to God's Will to preach goodness, because that will just delay Judgement Day, which apparently is what God's Will is.