No, no, no. They were supposed to get less substantive as you went along.

I think Pattinson was deliberately setting out to prove that Edward was a terrible love interest, and got frustrated when the audience ate it up anyway.

I feel like Adam Sandler's cartoon Dracula would eat Edward out of principle.

I think of her work as Dickensian: her prose isn't going to win any awards on its own, and she takes big narrative shortcuts sometimes, but she's got a real knack for easily digestible social commentary and bringing characters to life with a name and a few lines of description.

Reading them doesn't exactly require the sort of commitment that creates wear and tear. I finished the first one in its entirety on a half hour Metro ride. Didn't feel the need to continue the series.

Himself, probably. That seems to be the case with a lot of good-but-weird kids' and YA lit.

Coffee, black is also an option.

Featuring special guest Brent Spiner.

I was hoping for Amok Time.

The mid-Atlantic's alleged "departed" preference is weird, too. I'm sure it turns up in obituaries, but I've never heard anyone say it.

Gotta give them credit for realizing the movie had no staying power and therefore dated pop culture references wouldn't be a problem, I guess.

Hopefully she'll find the book even more charming.

"Her big focus is personal branding."

Also, it's not the virginity itself that's unattractive; plenty of more experienced partners enjoy being "teachers." It's the stereotype that someone who hasn't had sex by that age doesn't know how to interact with women (or people in general). I'm not saying it can't become a hangup by itself, but "getting it over…

Everyone knows you need to throw in some Pogs if you want fair market value.

It's a caterpillar.

Yeah, but these are people who proudly admit to being the worst people on earth. Given the fact that they somehow found spouses in the first place, I find it a lot easier to believe those spouses share their views than that the TV production company didn't do what reality TV shows have done multiple times before.

Me too. :(

To be fair, that's probably how he'd want to go.

The economic nosedive?