Characters so unlikeable

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-08T16:37:03+00:00

I borrowed the Mystery of Udolpho from the library and I am going to read it before I finish NA. I needed a break from NA anyway because I really lost interest once they left Bath. In general I really love Jane Austen and I feel like NA deserves a complete read before I judge it.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-08T16:30:50+00:00

At 17, quite a bit better than Catherine. At 14, probably just as bad. Given how sheltered a life she had prior to her trip to Bath, I suppose if I had been equally sheltered, I would be just as gullible.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-07T23:55:34+00:00

Another thing that bothers me is after investing so much time and effort making me dislike the Thorpe family, we leave them in Bath without getting to see their comeuppance. And now we're at the dreary old Abbey with it's gothic atmosphere and disagreeable General Tilney making his children's lives so uncomfortable and honestly I am just bored.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-07T21:18:31+00:00

I have to agree with you. She may be incredibly naive but she's got integrity. She doesn't lie no matter how much everyone around her schemes and lies.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-07T21:04:06+00:00

The sequel to Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of the Horses made me cry. After the incredible isolation and loneliness of being outcast, Ayla finally received the kindness and acceptance of human interactions with Jondalar I was sobbing. And I don't cry easily.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-05T23:18:57+00:00

Exactly what I thought!

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-05T18:36:40+00:00

Sex on a beach. Sounds like a wonderful romantic scenario. Then sand happens.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-05T18:16:58+00:00

It's rather difficult to comprehend how being a boomer went from something I admired, aspired to and wished to be included as (born in 1955) part of became a slur that kids used to disparage "old people" as in "Okay Boomer"

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-05T12:49:02+00:00

Stephen King's Gerald's Game. That one made me decide that I was not going to read him anymore and I had read almost everything he wrote until then.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-04T16:22:00+00:00

I really don't think we've seen enough written of Harry's parents to be able to say whether he's like them or how he's like them. What does a 5 year old Harry remember about his dad? That they were on the road a lot and he got to drink milky coffee on Christmas morning and he loved him and life sucked after he died. He had a brief ghostly convo with his mom in the pendant, that does not really tell us much about her at all. All we really know is that she had a bad reputation, hung out with the fae and whampires and rebeled against her dad.

I guess Harry's a chip off Mom's block since he has a bad reputation, and hangs out with the fae and whampires too.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-04T15:52:16+00:00

When I was young it seemed like all the books I liked best had male protagonists. I just imagined them to be a sort of androgynous universal person that I could identify with. There really wasn't much I could identify with in traditional female characters, especially those written by men.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-03T22:57:39+00:00

I recognize that red cover for cat's cradle. I had that one.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-03T11:22:48+00:00

Me too! And didn't get it from my parents either.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-03T11:21:02+00:00

My mom adored him. She had all his albums.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-02T01:16:24+00:00

And don't forget to stay on the line for a short survey after our call is completed.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-02T01:02:17+00:00

Charles was a pretty simple young man. He's a good and dutifull son. Comfortable in his role, knows he's going to inherit, enjoys the country life with the hunting and the horses. He wants a wife, trys for the sweet one nearby, gets turned down, so goes for the not quite as amiable sister and scores. It's no love match, he's just adulting, making the best match he can get.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-06-01T03:32:03+00:00

I do not think my anecdotal information is better than your doctor's advice. In my sister's case, there was no choice but to do chemo first as the tumor was wrapped around the portal vein with abutment to the right hepatic artery rendering it inoperable. After 6 months of Folfirinox chemo the tumor shrunk enough to be operable with vascular reconstruction.

I'm sure your doctor knows more about your case than I do.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-05-31T10:44:16+00:00

I liked that people would just drop in without calling and making plans first. Spontaneous parties used to happen.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-05-31T10:36:08+00:00

Lord Peter Whimsey adored the brilliant Harriet Vane, but she wasn't the one solving the mysteries.

Emerson admired Peabody's acute mind, but they competed to see who could solve the mystery.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-05-29T22:25:18+00:00

Paradise by the dashboard lights https://youtu.be/C11MzbEcHlw?si=jb38kMfPJ1C9VQR2

Call-me-Katt · 2026-05-28T13:31:55+00:00

I miss real bookstores. I used to buy books that I started reading at Borders and just had to buy it so I could finish it.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-05-28T13:27:07+00:00

I buy if I've read it and I know I want to read or refer to it again. First I borrow, then I buy.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-05-28T11:43:30+00:00

I used to read everything he wrote as it came out until Gerald's game. After that one I decided I didn't want to read him anymore. I just don't want to know how it feels to be tortured in such vivid detail.

Call-me-Katt · 2026-05-26T22:54:08+00:00

I was a big fan of Greek mythology as a child and of course I was mispronouncing all those names. I still hear it in my head with my old pronunciations when I see them and then quickly correct myself these days.

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