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Biweekly_Titan · 05-13-2006, 12:30 AM

Hi,
I need your help ppl..Its a book I read years ago..abt a man wanting to kill himself and he keeps writing abt it on the 'net and this girl convinces him to not go ahead with it and they plan to meetup @ his parents home.... then on the way to his parents' he dies in a car accident..and they never get to meet...the girl went by the name Slyvia Platt...Does anybody know the name of this book??

Thanks,
Mandar

aurigus · 05-13-2006, 01:05 AM

Sorry, Doesn't ring a bell!

taboo · 05-13-2006, 08:55 PM

wait a secondddd...>!!!
hasn't Silvia Platt written an entire collection of poems????
I remember having read some real crazy depressing stuff, yet very poewrful pieces!!!! Is it her? Let me know if you find out!!!!

snowy · 05-13-2006, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by taboo

wait a secondddd...>!!!
hasn't Silvia Platt written an entire collection of poems????
I remember having read some real crazy depressing stuff, yet very poewrful pieces!!!! Is it her? Let me know if you find out!!!!

The book he is looking for is likely not by who you're thinking of, given that you are probably thinking of Sylvia Plath and she's been dead since 1963. She is famous for writing The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical work. Yes, she wrote crazy depressing stuff, for example:

Quote:

Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

--Sylvia Plath

And this should probably be in Entertainment.

StormBerlin · 05-14-2006, 12:06 AM

Are you referring to the girls name on the internet being Syliva Plath? Like her character's "name"?

analog · 05-14-2006, 12:57 AM

Sylvia Plath wrote some very depressing shit. It's no real wonder that she was a suicide.

As for the book, and someone named Sylvia Platt, I have no idea what book you're talking about.

Biweekly_Titan · 05-14-2006, 03:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StormBerlin

Are you referring to the girls name on the internet being Syliva Plath? Like her character's "name"?

Yeah,the girl who the guy is supposed to be meeting @ his parents' goes by the name S.P...it was by a Brit author..

Biweekly_Titan · 05-25-2006, 01:12 AM

Pls,somebody help me!

05-13-2006, 12:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
Biweekly_Titan Upright	Need Help re:a book Hi, I need your help ppl..Its a book I read years ago..abt a man wanting to kill himself and he keeps writing abt it on the 'net and this girl convinces him to not go ahead with it and they plan to meetup @ his parents home.... then on the way to his parents' he dies in a car accident..and they never get to meet...the girl went by the name Slyvia Platt...Does anybody know the name of this book?? Thanks, Mandar

05-14-2006, 12:06 AM	#5 (permalink)
StormBerlin Happy as a hippo Location: Southern California	Are you referring to the girls name on the internet being Syliva Plath? Like her character's "name"? __________________ "if anal sex could get a girl pregnant i'd be tits deep in child support" Arcane

05-13-2006, 01:05 AM	#2 (permalink)
aurigus Insane	Sorry, Doesn't ring a bell!

05-13-2006, 08:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
taboo Crazy	wait a secondddd...>!!! hasn't Silvia Platt written an entire collection of poems???? I remember having read some real crazy depressing stuff, yet very poewrful pieces!!!! Is it her? Let me know if you find out!!!!

05-14-2006, 12:57 AM	#6 (permalink)
analog Banned	Sylvia Plath wrote some very depressing shit. It's no real wonder that she was a suicide. As for the book, and someone named Sylvia Platt, I have no idea what book you're talking about.

05-25-2006, 01:12 AM	#8 (permalink)
Biweekly_Titan Upright	Pls,somebody help me!