Best american dramas & plays books according to redditors

We found 102 Reddit comments discussing the best american dramas & plays books. We ranked the 56 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about American Dramas & Plays:

u/ClassicsMajor · 1674 pointsr/sadcringe

This guy also wrote a book about why he sued Taylor Swift for not being his girlfriend. I'm conflicted because I don't want to give this dude money but I really, really want to read his trash book.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Sued-Taylor-Swift-Frivolous/dp/069297010X

u/bloodfyr · 261 pointsr/AskReddit

Speaking as a gay man too young to have experienced AIDS directly but who has studied the epidemic in more than one class: at first, there was little to no idea what was causing it. It primarily attacked gay men (in the US. This is important.) so it was considered "the gay disease". Newspapers didn't really run stories about it, and if they did, it was buried or vague or incorrect. The NY Times' first article is pretty famous. Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals, especially as it describes Kaposi's sarcoma, one of the rare infections that would later be seen as an indication of AIDS. Without mainstream coverage, the largest way that gays learned about it was through gay newspapers, like the New York Native. One of the most famous articles, written by Larry Kramer, illustrates just how little attention was paid to it within the gay community: 1,112 and Counting. Doctors encountering it were perplexed at the healthy young men coming in with rare diseases like Kaposi's or pneumocystis and it wasn't for a long time that they connected them together under one condition of the immune system, as everything they were being hit with could only infect someone with a weakened immunity. The government was unresponsive and a number of gay men got together to form collectives.

The Gay Men's Health Crisis was one of the first and it fielded political work while acting as legal advice for gays with it, as well as caregivers. The legal advice was really important: it was so misunderstood (thanks, in part, to the Reagan administration) that few people had a concrete idea of what it was other than something affecting gays. There was no idea of how it transmitted, so the fears were that it was airborne or you got it through touch. Gay men would be evicted from their homes or fired out of fear. Insurance companies would drop you. The fear was so prevalent that some people would refuse to touch bodies of people who died by AIDS. There was a scene from "The Normal Heart" (see below) where a guy describes that when a gay guy died, the morgue refused to touch his body. The hospital ended up wrapping him in a body bag and duct tape and leaving him outside for his mother and his partner to pick up. They had to drive around, with his body in the back, to find a crematoria willing to cremate the body and that was only after they paid a considerable amount of money.

The entire medical establishment was so focused on the gay community that the disease's initial name was GRID, or Gay Related Immune Deficiency. The overwhelming majority of patients in the US were gay, so doctors would sometimes refuse to believe that a woman who was presenting the symptoms had the condition. "She's not a gay male, so she must have something else." They also refused to believe that children could get it for a number of years too. Even as they became more aware of the disease in Africa and Haiti (where women are the predominant patients), they believed it was something else. Hemophiliacs were another big group of people affected - there was no test for it and you could go for years before presenting symptoms, so it was in the blood supply. The larger blood organizations refused to institute screening once the test was available for a number of years, and hemophiliacs require an almost daily transfusion of blood. Nearly every hemophiliac in the eighties and nineties had it, and the government finally directed money towards it in 1990 after a young hemophiliac activist died of it, six years after the first cases. IV drug users were also a really big population with it, but they went unnoticed because a drug user is much less likely to go to a doctor for help, and when they get there and the doctor finds out they shoot up, the doctor was much more likely to write off their symptoms as "IV drug use related" and push them out the door.

To make matters worse, homosexuality was not even really misunderstood then...it was practically nonexistent when it came to honest medical knowledge. There was a record at one point of a medical discussion where some investigators threw out the idea that it was sexually transmitted because (I can't find the exact quote because its all in my notes from last year) men didn't have vaginas and they couldn't fathom how else to give it to someone. It couldn't have been through oral, or they would see more women with it. Doctors and researchers didn't know enough about gay sex to know about anal. I'm not kidding. The public mostly ignored it - it was a gay problem affecting gays. This was all happening during the Reagan administration and the rise of the "Moral Majority" and the Christian Right in America, so the government ignored it and the public ignored it...until Rock Hudson, a famous outwardly heterosexual though rumored gay movie star admitted that he had it.

The GMHC had trouble getting information out there, as the government did everything it could to stop them. There was a famous speech where Jessie Helms, "Senator No", held up a pamphlet from the GMHC that had some sexually explicit pictures on it, intended for gay audiences, and demonstrated how to use a condom (this was never intended to circulate outside of the gay community in NYC) and he called it pornography. He attached a rider to a bill that made it illegal to use Federal funding for any AIDS education or prevention materials that would "promote or encourage, directly or indirectly, homosexual sexual activities." He pushed to have HIV added to the list of diseases with which you could be denied entry into the US and then campaigned to have it kept on the list a few years later. He opposed pretty much any bill that gave money to research. He also blocked funding for UNAIDS for a long period of time.

ACT UP was founded, partially from ex-members of the GMHC and were a lot more politically active. They protested outside of pharmaceutical companies and government buildings, demanding cheaper and easier access to medication and actually helped to push forth one of the biggest changes to FDA drug approval since that body's foundation: a "faster" method for approving drugs. If a company can demonstrate that there's a potential for good, then they can start getting the drug out, skipping a number of test stages. Basically, it means that the patients become the test subjects. For someone with AIDS, it's usually better than nothing. Even then, it was usually pretty difficult. Sympathetic doctors would sometimes arrange access to trial drugs for their patients out of compassion, and some would collect a deceased person's drugs and give them to another patient. There's a longrunning theme in Paul Monette's book (see below) about the attitude of hope and then disappointment when big new drugs would appear on the horizon and either make things worse or just not work at all. Doctors would try radical procedures on willing patients, such as a bone marrow replacement in one case. When the FDA was still moving slowly, AIDS patients went around them, securing drugs from Mexico, where the restrictions were more lax. When one drug (AZT, I think) showed some promise, it was revealed that it could be made at home, so some people would cook up huge batches of it in their basement and sell it for pennies. Doctors, knowing they couldn't get the drugs legally for their patients, would sometimes connect them with these people.

The gay community, which nowadays seems so motivated and united, when faced with AIDS split. Hard. GMHC and ACT UP brought people together, but it also drove lots of areas apart. Paul Monette (see below) said, "Gay men in the high purlieus of West Hollywood - that next of arts and decoration, agentry, publicity, fifteen minutes ina minispot - would imply with a quaff of Perrier that AIDS was for losers. Too much slease, too many late nights, very non-Westside...I saw a split develop in gay men around that time, as people fled into themselves. Gay liberation had only begun in 1969...yet the solidarity that followed Stonewall wasn't rock-hard, binding us like the dissidents in Russia. AIDS was the jail with bread and water, but there were gay men who would not hear of it. Too much of a downer." It forced a lot of people back into the closet. The numbers of AIDS patients who were gay was so high that having it basically outed you to family. That was a much more traumatic thing than it is now (not saying that now is easy, no no no. Back then, the stigma and homophobia was worse.) There is a bit from The Normal Heart where a character talks about how he reunited a former lover with his mother...while the man is on his deathbed. She didn't know he was gay. Monette calls AIDS like an "inquisition" in the community, as people began to pull away from each other and assess how likely they were to die.

AIDS came right at the end of gay liberation. For a lot of gays, they refused to give up their victories (among which was the right to have anonymous, free sex with multiple partners). There were a number of people who, in the beginning, claimed that AIDS was a rumor spread by conservatives/straights to force people back in the closet. When it came out that AIDS was sexually transmitted, some people refused to either hear of it or to stop their fun.

If you're looking for some very well written personal experiences with the crisis, I have a couple of books you may be interested in:

Borrowed Time by Paul Monette is a memoir written as the author was taking care of his partner after he was diagnosed. It's probably the only book to reduce me to a sobbing, quivering mess several times throughout.

Hospital Time by Amy Hoffman is a memoir of a caregiver. It's disturbing, but very good.

Gifts of the Body is a series of stories about a "professional" caretaker (someone that AIDS patients without family or friends hired to care for them). It's really interesting in that it doesn't just have stories of gay men. The most tragic story is a grandmother who got it from a blood transfusion.

The Normal Heart is a play by Larry Kramer that documents the beginning of the crisis in NYC and the foundation of the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic focuses on how the doctors engaged with the disease and with their patients, and documents some of the changes to the medical industry as a result of it. It's decent, but tends to glorify the role doctors played and ignores the many doctors who refused to see AIDS patients or discriminated against them when they did.

u/BeatrixVonBourbon · 129 pointsr/books

I have always been a bit grimly obsessed by Ebola, and my friend gave me this to read a few years ago. It was terrifying and riveting. Plus, not long after, said friend went on Honeymoon very near to supposed Ebola cave... he wasn't keen.

Incidentally, a good follow-up read to this is The Coming Plague

u/madcowdog · 54 pointsr/UnresolvedMysteries

Can highly recommend the book Unsolved Disappearances in the Great Smoky Mountains. It details many cases, two of which were likely solved during the research for the book, and several which remain a mystery. My favorite case is about a little boy found frozen to a in the forest and was buried by kind strangers. His identity was revealed after 60 years. Turned out his father beat him frequently and he ran away in the cold of winter. His mother had heard that he was found, but thought if she spoke up people would want her to pay for his burial costs. He was thought to be very young, but he was very small for his age, likely due to being under nourished.

u/flechesbleues · 24 pointsr/AskReddit

I highly recommend either seeing or reading the play The Normal Heart, by Larry Kramer. He was in the middle of it all, in New York City, and the play is a semi-autobiographical account of the precise time you're asking about. It tells the story of a man setting up an AIDS activist group and his frustration with the lack of understanding of the disease and action from those who might help.

Anyway, it was revived on Broadway last year to huge acclaim and I found it to be incredibly moving (and informative). I believe it's being made into a film, but it's not out yet. In the meantime you can buy the book/script though.

Larry Kramer wrote a letter to the audience that was distributed outside the theatre after each performance (he sometimes stood there doing it himself!). It can be read online here. Even without the context of the play, you should be able to take from it the passion he still feels about the issue (as a result of his own personal experience).

I also recently watched the miniseries Angels in America, which I'd also recommend (it too, is based on a play). It's a much more fictionalized (and indeed, fantastical) account, but it's set around the same time and in NYC again. It presents another viewpoint of the time and even though it's fiction, it conveys real emotion, I think.

u/ExxieEssex · 14 pointsr/UnresolvedMysteries

This is a good, long book about the origins and discovery of some of the newer, more confusing diseases. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The title is more clickbait-y than the actual work.

u/newtonslogic · 9 pointsr/news

Methinks it's a bit too late for all that.

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balance/dp/0140250913

Captain Trips is coming.

u/jordanlund · 7 pointsr/books

I'm going to fall back on a couple of non-fiction books that are mind-blowing, although not necessarily on the same scale you're talking about.

On germs, plagues and bio-containment:

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston:

http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Zone-Terrifying-True-Story/dp/0385495226/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266864059&sr=8-1

The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett:

http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balance/dp/0140250913/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266864094&sr=1-1

I read both of these books back to back and it's like reading the same story first covered by the National Enquirer (Hot Zone) and then again by the New York Times (Coming Plague). It's a fascinating look at disease distribution and protection. The Hot Zone is a light easy read that's more sensationalist than scientific, the Coming Plague is the polar opposite, but both are good reads.

Road Fever by Tim Cahill:

http://www.amazon.com/Road-Fever-Tim-Cahill/dp/0394758374/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266864207&sr=1-1

Guy is hired by GM for a promotional stunt. Drive their new truck from the tip of Argentina to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska as fast as he can. The problems he has getting through South and Central America are amazing, and not just culturally, politically.

Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon:

http://www.amazon.com/Into-Heart-Borneo-Redmond-OHanlon/dp/0394755405/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266864285&sr=1-1

Take your average academic natural history book reviewer and throw him in the jungle for a month! It will be great!

u/jarrettwold · 7 pointsr/science

I always point people to this book when they blow off vaccinations or contagious diseases:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases/dp/0140250913

The other book? Preston's The Hot Zone.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Story/dp/0385479565

Both of those scared the ever living shit out of me, and they're also why I hate Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy.

u/AgoraRefuge · 5 pointsr/niceguys

For those who havent seen this guy. It's a trip.

Or read his book!

u/matts2 · 5 pointsr/science

Or The Hot Zone. But if you want really scary bone chilling, read The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. This is about all of the potential diseases out there "waiting" to spread through humanity. I wanted to wrap myself in plastic and never touch a thing again. Did you know that there are bacteria that can live in bleach bottles?

u/_AuFish · 4 pointsr/askscience

So just a little more detail on this, especially in regards to Ebola virus and how the US dealt with it. Also, to preface, I'm about to begin my PhD and will be working in high containment - as I am completely fascinated by these pathogens, especially filoviruses, and had the pleasure of meeting one of the head physicians who tended to the Ebola cases at Emory University.

So despite the fact that Ebola will likely never reach epidemic proportions in the US as it did in Africa due to cultural differences that ultimately led to quick dissemination through the region - the US swiftly put precautionary measures into place. The most notable is how quickly they turned a wing of the hospital at Emory into a BSL4 containment facility. Utilizing the NEIDL at Boston University as an upsetting example of how many set backs there are to establishing BSL4 facilities - I believe there's less than 20 in the US (the exact number escapes me at this hour), yet another illustration of the difficulties of establishing high containment facilities. Yet When emory began getting over crowded and needed more BSL4 space - they were able to (with the help of their CDC neighbors) create a fully functional BSL4 in 48hrs. In addition to the Emory isolation unit, after the 'Ebola scare' the government and/or state health departments issued high containment bio safety suits to the major hospitals in each state (even if they didn't have quarantine units), in case they ever had to deal with an outbreak. (Source: a few friends of mine are head of their departments in major cities and informed me because they knew I would get a kick out of it. lol)

I could go on and on (because I am a super big nerd about infectious pathogens), but I will give you some cool resources for you to check out if you'd like to read about it more.

Emory Ebola isolation unit

My absolute favorite book, which explains how a lot of the worlds most deadly pathogens first emerged and how they were discovered - The Coming Plague

u/Twilighttail · 3 pointsr/WritingPrompts

This actually reminds me of a skit about two MayFlys and their 24-hour life. Time Flies by David Ives.

I'd imagine that the hormone levels would be about the same.

u/Legia · 3 pointsr/explainlikeimfive

The diseases are actually quite old. They're both zoonoses, or diseases transmitted from animals to people. In the case of HIV from chimps, and in the case of Ebola we don't know the reservoir species. Maybe bats. From there, these diseases are able to transmit directly from human to human. HIV turned out to be quite well adapted for this, perhaps because SIV was in chimps for so long and also because unlike Ebola, HIV takes awhile to cause symptoms, and symptoms aren't as scary at least for awhile.

It's new patterns of population and travel that have amplified them (and a bit of bad luck). A great book on this for HIV is [Jacques Pepin's The Origin of AIDS] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Origins-AIDS-Jacques-Pepin/dp/0521186374). Essentially we can see based on historic biological samples and the pace of genetic viral mutation that HIV has crossed into humans from chimps multiple times and among primates as well. What changed was that HIV managed to infect a bush meat hunter then make it into a city with a lot of men and few women and then perhaps into a sex worker and . . . away we go. Whereas infecting one bush hunter who then infects his wife and she goes on to have an infected baby - well they all just die out, end of "epidemic."

[Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague] (http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balance/dp/0140250913/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407301527&sr=1-1&keywords=the+coming+plague) and [David Quammen's Spillover] (http://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pandemic/dp/0393346617/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407301582&sr=1-3&keywords=the+coming+plague) also address this question well.

u/Y_pestis · 3 pointsr/booksuggestions

Not quite the same as your examples, but some of my favorite non-fiction science are...

The Coming Plague

And The Band Played On

The Disappearing Spoon

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

I could probably come up with a few others if any of these seem to be what interests you.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/biology

Are you looking for a textbook or non-fiction books?

I am a microbiologist so these books are biased towards that:

The Coming Plague. Its a little sensationalist but its a good read.

The Hot Zone This is the book that got me into microbiology and started me on the path to being a microbiologist.

The Immortal Life of Henriatta Lacks Light on the science but still puts a personal context to science especially tissue culture.

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History Good historical look on a disease that we still fear today.

Not a book but check out This Week in Microbiology and This Week in Virology podcasts. Great and informative.

u/hodedoh · 2 pointsr/books

I just finished reading Looking for Alaska . I enjoyed it. Some people lump it in with young adult, but I found it to be more sophisticated and thought provoking than most of the other YA books I've read.

u/Qu1nlan · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Ooooh awesome!

  1. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. A tragic comedy, it tells in a wonderful way the toils of religion and the euphoria of love. A dystopian romantic fantasy, and apart from #2 the best book I've ever read.

  2. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. A comedic tragedy, the story of a man in love and in desperation and in trouble. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Quite probably my favorite book ever, and I think everybody should read it.

  3. Technically it's a play, but The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh. A really well written dark and disturbing story about a man in a totalitarian investigation. But it still manages to be hilarious in all the most deep and worrying ways. It's definitely my favorite play, and is really amazing.
u/hexthanatonaut · 2 pointsr/justneckbeardthings

I'm pretty sure the dude is disabled. This picture went around a while back. I think he also was like trying to sue Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande for not dating him or something.

Here he is, he also wrote a book

https://www.reddit.com/r/niceguys/comments/6502wq/guy_who_sued_taylor_swift_heartbroken_over_ariana/

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Sued-Taylor-Swift-Frivolous/dp/069297010X



edit: oh and this is apparently also him, but the name is blocked out so no way to know for sure

https://imgur.com/a/FR7YC

u/alpsgolden · 2 pointsr/slatestarcodex

> Compared to my father, I don't know what real bullying was. And my father, compared to his grand father, probably didn't know what real bullying was either....But my point is overall, from the 100-year-view, progressivism has had a massive good impact.

I think this is a really interesting question, but I'm not sure how we resolve our debate. My thinking is that your father's experience was more an of an outlier and that cruel, sadistic bullying really was not that common fifty or a hundred years ago. I believe this mainly from my own family history and from reading lots of biographies and stories of people growing up a hundred years ago. There seems to be lots of fighting, but more of the kind that young boys actually find enjoyable. From a utilitarian perspective, the median young boy probably like playground fighting a lot more than modern bureaucratized, feminized schooling. My image of 1870s New Hampshire is of something close to what is described in Henry Shute's semi-fictionalized story The Real Diary of a Real Boy. Sounds like a pretty great time to be a boy.

The worst stories seem to come out of orphanages and boarding schools. You would need to compare the experience of orphanages to modern foster care, which itself seems pretty horrible. As for boarding schools, I'm not sure what to think about them. Boarding schools were intended for building a strong elite -- if you can't take the hazing you probably should just drop out because you are not leadership material. On the other hand having a bunch of boys living together might be an inherently bad social structure, leading not just to healthy hazing but senseless cruelty. The proper social structure may be that teenage boys should already be apprenticing in adult society, not learning from other teenage boys.

But for your average boy, growing up in a normal family and school, sadistic bullying does not seem that common. However, it is hard to get a representative sample. We don't have good surveys. Stories and memoirs usually either have an idealized version of the past or focus on the worst of it (since that makes for the most compelling stories).

Perhaps the best we could do (though this would be a lot of work) is to find the biographies of 100+ 19th century intellectual types -- inventors, writers, artists -- and read about their life growing up, and do an actual count of how often pathological behavior was experienced (how many faced sadistic bullying? how many saw their father sadistically beat their mother? etc.)

u/jwrtf · 2 pointsr/CFBOffTopic

I have a book of plays by Christopher Durang that I'm working through, but before this I had just reread these three plays by Rajiv Joseph. Gruesome Playground Injuries is one of my favorite plays that features only two people and I love how the two characters seem real no matter at what age they're shown (which is from 8-38). I highly recommend Gruesome for someone looking to get into reading plays.

u/webnrrd2k · 2 pointsr/biology

If you like The Hot Zone, you'll love The Coming Plague.

u/dubs2317 · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

Looking for Alaska - John Green

Edit: I misread the title, this is not a series. It's still great though.

u/cool_colors · 2 pointsr/biology

The Coming Plague is a good read.

u/WhirledWorld · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

I did my thesis on him. You can find a lot of his major works online, but there are two standard compilations of his oeuvre.

This one skips his later works, but that's okay because once he finished Four Quartets he basically decided he could never write something better, and so he didn't write for the next 15 years of his life or so. It also includes his plays, as he was a major playwright as well.

This one includes more poetry, but not the plays.

u/Catalystic_mind · 2 pointsr/sadcringe
u/travelersoul · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

happy birthday

have you read TS Elliot

u/nthing2seehere · 1 pointr/insanepeoplefacebook

The guy wrote a book about suing Taylor Swift
Why I sued Taylor Swift

u/amazon-converter-bot · 1 pointr/FreeEBOOKS

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u/-yvette- · 1 pointr/CasualConversation

Oh it's available via Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0822221004/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1450910606&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=pillowman&dpPl=1&dpID=41Ap9fv9AsL&ref=plSrch

if you ment 'the guard', it is too. i don't use streaming services (bad selection in my country) so i can't help with that...

u/brycew00 · 1 pointr/hmmm

Ok well somehow I found what I was talking about but unfortunately it doesn’t make my original comment any less crazy sounding. I was apparently referencing this man:

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Morning-Daddy-John-Slade/dp/B006QS5UM8#immersive-view_1571560931265

Bought that book in a dollar tree like 10 years ago. Just a man making weird faces in random situations and honestly this post may or may not be him. Probably not though. Wow I need to go get some sleep

u/serenityveritas · 1 pointr/books

The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett

It's my favorite non-fiction book and it pushed me into being pre-med in college. Obviously not about the Cold War (although some of it takes places during then) but it's really well researched and fascinating.

u/drunkonwine · 1 pointr/AskReddit

This grabbed from a library and randomly thumbed through. You'll get a good series of stuff. Also, read this by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I like classics, especially now that I am old enough to have experiences these literary gods talked about.

u/asmartshell · 1 pointr/Showerthoughts

Time Flies - David Ives.

One act play. You'd love it.

Edit: In fact, you should own this

u/jaywhoo · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

On mobile so I can't check your WL, but...


The Great Gatsby
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC0PDA/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8

Brooklyn NY: A Grim Retrospective
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004GKMJEK/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8

If you never read these as a kid or you have kids:

The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children Mysteries)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004EBTA34/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8

And because of the funny title...

Still Salty :4 (A Ghetto Soap Opera)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CD4AVP0/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8

u/Ebriate · 1 pointr/worldnews

Oh this epidemic is in the infant stage. It's simple math. He will understand when the hot zone is Africa.
Ebola is a ping pong ball the closer people are compacted population wise

Read this book if you want some truth and not current population concentrations of an infant epidemic
Thanks sponsz for getting it.

u/BobBeaney · 1 pointr/Theatre

Would you consider Clybourne Park? I don't know what if any constraints you're under content-wise. Some of the language is quite raw. However it is a great play with plenty of drama and humor.
http://www.amazon.com/Clybourne-Park-Play-Tony-Award-ebook/dp/B007237Z38/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396154270&sr=8-1&keywords=clybourne+park

u/typewryter · 1 pointr/askwomenadvice

You may find it interesting to read the play Fat Pig. It's about a situation very similar to yours -- man falls in love with a large woman, and struggles to deal with the social fallout about it.

Not that it has exactly great advice, but it's just so exactly your situation I had to mention it.

u/paulcosca · 1 pointr/casualiama

The title of the play is Wolf. My favorite playwright...hmm...there are probably a bunch. Shakespeare. Michael Frayn. Pinter. Sondheim. Neil LaBute. I'm never disappointed by Tracy Letts.

u/MattieShoes · 1 pointr/AskEurope

I followed that one with The Coming Plague. It's a bit more heavy, less of a narrative. Man, I was paranoid for MONTHS after reading those two!