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Feb. 17th, 2011 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteAaah, THIS is what I read for.
That moment in the book when you watch the character that you kind of love to hate utterly screw up and stick his foot in it, except he doesn't know it because he doesn't know everything you-the-reader know, and you're half-cringing as you read, torn between stopping and clutching your hair and shouting 'NO YOU FOOL IT'S A TRAP' and wanting to keep on going, devouring words at a breakneck pace to watch the resulting debacle, while a tiny part of you just wants to close your eyes and stop, so it doesn't happen....
And then the bubblegum hits the fan, and it's all BAM and POW and OOH and you're cheering out loud for the good guys and laughing in delight at the tricks and turns, until your coworkers poke their heads in and wonder what the heck is going on....
Until it's over, and you fall back out and wonder where the last half hour went, and feel vaguely embarrased at having acted like such a goober, and mope for a few minutes at the fact that it's done and you'll never read it for the first time again....
That moment in the book when you watch the character that you kind of love to hate utterly screw up and stick his foot in it, except he doesn't know it because he doesn't know everything you-the-reader know, and you're half-cringing as you read, torn between stopping and clutching your hair and shouting 'NO YOU FOOL IT'S A TRAP' and wanting to keep on going, devouring words at a breakneck pace to watch the resulting debacle, while a tiny part of you just wants to close your eyes and stop, so it doesn't happen....
And then the bubblegum hits the fan, and it's all BAM and POW and OOH and you're cheering out loud for the good guys and laughing in delight at the tricks and turns, until your coworkers poke their heads in and wonder what the heck is going on....
Until it's over, and you fall back out and wonder where the last half hour went, and feel vaguely embarrased at having acted like such a goober, and mope for a few minutes at the fact that it's done and you'll never read it for the first time again....
