May piss you off, but does it surprise you, Nutty?

Surprise me in the "Wait, that actually happens?" sense, no. Surprise me in the "You did NOT just demonstrate your asshole tendencies in front of the whole class" sense, very much yes.

And in the sense where it instantly turns an ordinary day into a bad one, and makes me want to beat half the species to death, yes, every time.

I would be surprised because I don't think I'm attractive.

I appreciate guys not telling me when/if I feature in their Skinemax special, but I know guys do it. It's best I don't know how often.

I don't think guys do it because they're nasty, so it doesn't set me off too much. I don't know if guys think I don't do it because I'm a prude, but that would set me off to the extent of at least kicking them in the nuts.

::tries to work out how to bring it back to literary::

::fails::

But that's a story that's told about me, and I'm resigned to its inevitability. I don't like having it told to or around me.

so back to literary

I just spent a whole bunch of time reading review of two different books that I have just read. Now i don't usually spend much time with review before buying a book - too many people give to many plot details - and both the the 5 star and one star reviews are often way too much of a love or hate fest for me to get much out of them. But I am amazed at how poorly people read. People who do lots of book reviews. As in the characters name - Tavi not Travis as you referred to him. andd the person reviewing Rebel Angels that did not understand the appeal of the realms -D'oh Victorian england - girls who had to live by strict rules - suddenly able to do what they want - I say it again - D'oh.

(not really spoilerly if you've read the first book)

I've always read a lot. But I don't read just for volume - that would be lame.

I read "The Metamorphosis" today. It was strange. And extremely depressing. Somehow, I was expecting it to be less so, despite the whole main-character-changes-into-a-giant-bug thing.

Don't know if this helps, Gris, but reportedly Kafka used to laugh and laugh when he wrote his stories.

So...maybe a little more black humor and a little less empathy in that genre. (Genre here being....Mitteleuropa Black Fabulism?)

I laughed a good bit, actually. But the end was sad. I wanted it to be more Disney and less Brothers Grimm in terms of fantasy endings.

I wanted it to be more Disney and less Brothers Grimm in terms of fantasy endings.

Kafka is going to shade more Grimm than Disney.

Read "The Hunger Artist."

if it had a more Disney ending - the cockroach would have to find a mrs cockroach and they would have to sing a duet

and have a dust mite for a cute sidekick.