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Huh.
So I stopped reading The End of Mr Y about halfway through, because I suddenly got very bored and found a copy of Archer's Goon which was far more entertaining. It turns out that it was literally half a paragraph away from getting good again.
She'd taken the potion, see, and nothing had happened. And I didn't exactly expect it to, but then she has this whole chapter in which nothing much happens - that is, she meets and falls desperately in love with a man who I think is a bit of a wanker, she goes to a dinner party and has exactly the kind of conversation about physics which I can't stand in real life, she totally fails to have sex with Adam the Emo Theologist, and then she talks for a while about how poor she is. I mean, it's fair enough because she genuinely is dirt poor, but combined with the fact that I already feel slightly inferior to her because of the intellectual stuff... let's just say that when we got to the paragraph about how she has icicles in her fridge but she would never want to be the kind of intellectually bankrupt middle class loser who cares about having icicles in their fridge, I gave up and read Archer's Goon instead.
I picked it up again today, turned to the page I left it on, and discovered that in the very next paragraph the magic science starts to actually work.
I just find that really funny. Of course the book is still on probation and if she goes into the mind of Adam the Emo Theologist and is surprised that it is full of Emo I might still give up altogether.
So I stopped reading The End of Mr Y about halfway through, because I suddenly got very bored and found a copy of Archer's Goon which was far more entertaining. It turns out that it was literally half a paragraph away from getting good again.
She'd taken the potion, see, and nothing had happened. And I didn't exactly expect it to, but then she has this whole chapter in which nothing much happens - that is, she meets and falls desperately in love with a man who I think is a bit of a wanker, she goes to a dinner party and has exactly the kind of conversation about physics which I can't stand in real life, she totally fails to have sex with Adam the Emo Theologist, and then she talks for a while about how poor she is. I mean, it's fair enough because she genuinely is dirt poor, but combined with the fact that I already feel slightly inferior to her because of the intellectual stuff... let's just say that when we got to the paragraph about how she has icicles in her fridge but she would never want to be the kind of intellectually bankrupt middle class loser who cares about having icicles in their fridge, I gave up and read Archer's Goon instead.
I picked it up again today, turned to the page I left it on, and discovered that in the very next paragraph the magic science starts to actually work.
I just find that really funny. Of course the book is still on probation and if she goes into the mind of Adam the Emo Theologist and is surprised that it is full of Emo I might still give up altogether.