Right. I could relate a little bit to both Amy and Nick in the beginning. Just some of the different thoughts that arise from being in a relationship, and whether we handle those in a way that helps the relationship or in a way that doesn't. But I don't really feel like I learned anything from it. Like, when Amy in…

Yeah, I agree with you. I felt very detached from them too. I think that goes along with me not really liking the writing style overall. But, I, too, wanted those jolts, but never really got them.

But she wasn't. She never really unraveled. Desi wasn't unraveling in the sense that she became careless. She unraveled and escalated, but she was still just as meticulous and premeditationg.

Yeah, I thought that too. She already showed, in her setting up of Nick, that she was willing to do almost anything. With Desi she proved she absolutely would. And, with Desi, it's elevated, because she didn't necessarily do it as revenge against Desi. i thought she found Desi more to be more annoying and…

i thought her getting robbed was completely out of character. She was set forth at meticulously cunning, planning out every single details of every single action. There is no way she would have been caught that unaware as to be robbed in some run-of-the-mill home invasion where the robbers didn't seem to match her…

Yeah, I almost felt like the last few paragraphs made up for some of the rest of the book. He was definitely acknowledging that he was only there to play the game and not to really love her, and she was very definitely going to punish him for it - let the manipulation games really begin. i closed the book feeling a…

Ooh - I think Jude Law could pull it off. He was pretty conniving and devious in Closer.

I know. Her parents didn't even stick around for any significant length of time to make sure she was okay....

Hmm. First part versus second part. The story was much more interesting to me in the first part. Someone else mentioned Amy getting robbed as "lame." I found it incredibly, annoyingly, lame. Somone as in control of everything as she is and she gets "robbed" in a typical, boring, home-invasion type robbery from…

Yeah. It sounds really frustrating.

That sound awfully anxiety-inducing. Sorry.

Seriously. It would take less than a minute to run a google search, or say, check some twitter feeds FROM the US.

Especially when I would imagine it's hard to get an automated system to accept a hyphen sometimes. Now that I am thinking about it, the people I know who haven't had issues probably book through travel agencies so they can work around that.

I am wondering if that is because (and not to be snarky) some people I know who have hyphenated last names aren't consistent in using them that way. Sometimes they opt for only one to shorten it. I could easily see someone having a credit card or a driver's license with a hyphenated last name, but only booking a…

I get that. I get the sensitivity of it. I just think there's a difference between standard run-of-the-mill promotions, like that email, or, billboard displays which are really just rote promotions, and, for instance, opening nights galas and red carpets. I think they showed class by holding off on the Paris…

And, when things like this happen, I remind myself that this makes news because it IS out of the norm. It starts to feel like things like this are commonplace because they make the news, but I think its' the opposite. They aren't commonplace, and that adds to the shock value. Remembering that makes me feel a little…

Wait - I don't get the issue. Is there something particular in this ad that I am missing? Because it just looks like an ad for the movie for me. Tragic that the shooting happened during a showing of this movie, but I don't expect the movie company to have to stop general promotion because of it.

me too!!! :)

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