o you think if someone told you that it was a character study instead of an action movie (or however it was introduced to you), that you would've tolerated it better?

I probably wouldn't have bothered with it, or needed to be in a certain mood to watch it. I dunno. I do like character studies, but I'm really not all that interested in serial killers, you know? But my husband doesn't seem to think I like good Oscar winning movies, so I get razzed on for that.

I wonder how you'd react to a book like the Nikita Black novel they recently reviewed over there.
I'm not a big romance reader (Nora Roberts is about all I read, because she's fantastic, and she's in my comfort zone) but who knows, I might have read this out of sheer curiosity (though I really don't know after a review like that.)

And your reaction to The Time-Traveler's Wife pretty much cemented my decision to stay far, far away from it, LOL.

It was disappointing, mostly because everyone just loves that book and I just can't wrap my brain around WHY, you know? Because I found it neither romantic nor how women should act when they're in love. And that's not counting the literary problems with the book...

I think it's my least favorite book of all time... like the only book ever to generate such hatred in me that I want to set it on fire with my mind every time I see it in the Literature section at Borders.