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Aggie: "You dream your way here." Charlie: "No, I'm no dream." A page later: Charlie: "I can be warm, even as a dream." Aggie: "No, don't keep calling yourself a dream!" Ugh. You started it, Aggie. How did neither author nor editor notice this hypocritical inconsistency that is, like, literally a page apart? Maybe less; it's hard to tell in ebook form.
— Jan 09, 2016 07:53PM
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Elaine
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That's a patronizing hotel. But I guess someone has to try telling the reader how Aggie is being totes brave by walking around people-watching Glasgow at all hours for a month. And I'm sure that a nice hotel in a major city had neeeever had young lady guests do such crazy things before! Heroine so speshul.
— Jan 09, 2016 08:03PM
Elaine
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Also, "Different was never ugly." Sweet aphorism, falls apart like cotton candy in a swimming pool after a moment of thought.
— Jan 09, 2016 07:35PM
Elaine
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Actually, Charlie did not describe himself as ugly. Just different, not human, etc.
— Jan 09, 2016 07:33PM
Elaine
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He doesn't have eyes to close as a projection-- okay, but can he also not turn around?
— Jan 09, 2016 06:00PM
Elaine
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No "special" people have ever gotten a degree in psychology or psychiatry then? D&S boss couldn't pay an employee to do so? Sounds like it'd be in their collective best interest.
— Jan 09, 2016 05:32PM
Elaine
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Passed over Oregon in a day. Pow. I guess the author had a bad experience with some Oregonians?
— Jan 09, 2016 04:48PM
Elaine
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"...what was considered normal vastly outweighed its opposite..." Yes. Normal being relative, the majority situation is considered the norm. Good job.
— Jan 09, 2016 04:47PM
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You know, this little girl is being repeatedly raped to produce child porn, and Charlie has found people who could help but doesn't think they're good enough because he wants to find someone who loves the little girl, too. Ugh! (My house is burning, but I hate the color red. Be gone, fire truck, until you've been painted another color.) Bullshit!
— Jan 06, 2016 05:13AM
Elaine
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What Cadillac? It was her Miata earlier in the same sentence. "Her Cadillac." What???
— Jan 06, 2016 04:54AM
