Speaking of clumsy prose, I am reading Twilight for the student book club, and it is KILLING ME. Seriously, I have to read a chapter quick and then take a break because it is sooooo lame and boring and I hate the completely unrealistic people and first-person narration by boring teenage girls is like my least favorite thing ever.

I liked Tolkien well enough the first time I read The Hobbit and LotR, but after I took a college course on medieval Brit lit, I loved him.

I like the movies, but the books are very boring to me. I think it is actually the detailed world building which people like that makes me dislike them.

flea, you might like the Read it and Weep review of Twilight in a cathartic sort of way.

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I haven't read Twilight, so I can't really say much about it, but snark is always good. I even like snarky reviews of stuff I like.

Cleolinda's always good, too.

I think it is actually the detailed world building which people like that makes me dislike them.

Best part of the audiobooks, hearing the songs instead of reading them :).

Love Rosie. Saw a few new ones there. Si Se Puede is my favorite of those takeoffs as well.

You have to be sports-crazy to be a Buffista? I wouldn't have guessed that.

I signed up on Alikewise about a month ago. Forgot all about it.

Howdy (from the late waker).

xkcd is a little aggressive today.

ION, my mom has decided that all the St. Augustine grass where I'm going to put the raised bed has to be lifted and used as sod elsewhere. We've been talking about this raised bed for more than a month and this is the first time she's mentioned that requirement. I cannot physically do it myself which means either my brother or my dad have to and it has to fit with their schedule. So instead of being able to start gardening this week, I have no idea when I'm going to be able to start. Get over one roadblock with her and another appears. *sigh*

Great weather today. I really like the windiness.

Before Saturday's class started, I was chatting with the classmate sitting next to me. I don't know why, but we were talking about people we knew who had connections to unusual celebrities, and I mentioned that an assistant manager of mine from Waldenbooks had as her landlady the first wife of John Wayne Gacy. That got us talking about serial killers overall--the classmate was familiar with Gacy since she lives near where his house was and had seen the tv movie with Brian Dennehy as Gacy. However, when I then mentioned she should rent "Deliberate Stranger" with Mark Harmon as Ted Bundy, she had no clue who Bundy was.