In Which I Try For Value-Added Propositions

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So I've read some books in the past week, and because I'll read pretty much anything these all happened to be romances and X-chan and I were talking about things we hate in romance novels, which inspired my curmudgeonliness here. (Also, as you'll have guessed, I really don't believe in love, so I'm just basically irredeemable.) Fortunately, my

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I think it was a combination of a.) desperately hoping that it would somehow redeem itself, and b.) dogged persistence. Once I start a book, by God, I will finish it! (This approach has yet to work on me with Three Kingdoms, but I hope to manage it someday.)

I may need to read 50 Shades of Grey sometime (for dissection here, of course)...

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Some of the 50 Shades of Grey sex scenes got the weepingcock treatment, if that tells you anything. (I cannot be responsible for any regrettable, but unavoidable, eye-melting as a result of visiting that community.)

No wonder, if Publishers Weekly is spot-on: "Fenn sets her romance-heavy but passionless debut in a vast and ancient aerial city that inexplicably evokes very little sense of wonder."

[EDITED to make slightly more sense.]

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I always like snark. And you are very good at snarking. You are a snarker.

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I figure if I'm going to suffer from learning how neurotic straight people are, I might as well entertain others :D

Also, I'm not good at that many things, so by God I'm going to be MAGNIFICENT at the few things I am good at!