Do you like Chicken Soup books?

“Don’t you have a sappy bone somewhere in your body? The one that makes you tear up when you hear of a dog getting rescued off a roof in the middle of a flood and returned to his owner? Or the story of a kid who survives cancer, or something?”

Dear lord, no. I don’t do “heartwarming.” In fact, I keep a supply of dry ice near my desk in case my cockles start to heat up.

I saw the galleys of a book here at work last year called “Hot Chocolate for the Angel Lover’s Soul.” I thought it was going to be a brilliant, wry parody, but when I found out it was SERIOUS, I dropped it like Nosferatu with a crucifix.

[shudder] Excuse me now, I have to go read some Dorothy Parker and pop “Double Indemnity” in the VCR . . .

NO! NO! NO!

I was given the first book as a gift, and found it to be very contrived. Now, I just roll my eyes whenever I see the latest version.
I have a nasty case of food poisoning right now, and I doubt that glurge will help me feel better.
(Somehow, I find my sig line to be really approppos at the moment…)

Please, please tell me you got food poisoning from eating chicken soup!! The irony would be sooooo cool!