I Bought the Book

[sgt_majorette]

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[winstonmom]

Very nice picture and I have to say the you look like your Icon :)

[sgt_majorette]

My icon is me, couple of years ago, studying a menu, fotoshopped to look like a painting...

I like the actual bookcover, but grownup books don't normally have illustrated covers, which is how you know it's YA.

Lack of impulse control, attachment issues: sounds like your garden-variety autism-spectrum disorder. Asperger's, maybe? Nick's like my niece, except he's charming and she's not dyslexic. I keep telling people she's possessed.

[vandulocity]

Heh. I have pretty severe Aspergers syndrome, and at several points while reading TDL I had to go and check in the mirror to make sure my blue eyes hadn't just been a hallucination for the last 21 years ;)

[ubiquitous_a]

I'm about halfway through the book, and I am having trouble getting past the fact that Nick just seems so angry and pissed off most of the time, it's kind of hard to like him as a main protagonist......I could almost see Alan being a better main character, if only because he seems to be a bit more three-dimensional.

My hope is that either as I get through the rest of the book, his character will be a bit less "all pissed off, all of the time", and bit more well-rounded......and if not in this book, hopefully in later ones. He may be hot and all, but if he continues to be such a jerk (albiet there have been brief flashes where he actually cracks a smile, but not much), it's going to make it hard for me to continue reading.

[alioli]

Hee, you look very happy indeed! :)

[pionie]

Yeah, I prefer the UK cover (see my icon if you haven't seen it) - he looks less pouty and more tortured.

[lepusdomesticus]

Agreed. I was kind of embarassed to buy the book with that cover (American version), and I'm only 25. ; )