Hail to the queen of the Amazon

mmmmmmmmmm Peanut butter cups mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

have only been waiting for three billion years (well since march) I have to ration them tho because they are stonkingly calorific and I'm trying to loose weight.

Thankyou Jem!

If anyone else is coming back from aymerica in the near future, (mentioning no names or anything) they might find their way to bringing me back some also.

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so i just read this really good book called Wicked, which was a retelling of the wizard of oz from the point of view of the wicked witch of the west and her friends, I really, really likes it partly because I just really like well done
po-mo pointless humanities clever storytelling and partly because it was a thoughtful, interesting but not to heavy read. It is an exploration in what makes someone human rather than other, the difference if there is one between good and evil, the rights and wrongs of certain political systems, it kind of reminded me of the first his dark materials book (northern lights i think it is) but it isn't as deep or thick or rich, and as to the things it was exploring it didn't go as deep as i would like if I was actively studying the issues but for a bit of light reading it was all good.

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And that passage made me think lots about my polotical position and where violence belongs (or not) in political activism and weather it is better for a small amount of people to die so lots of people can be free, i think i will make a post about it sometime to help unjumble it all in my head

Anyway I went to amazon to see what other people thought of it and I was really suprised at the reviews, I think I am always way too optomistic that the lowest common denominator factor is higher than it actualy is, anyway loads of people were slating it quite angrily because it was too heavy a read, because it was so different from the wizard of oz, because it contained philosiphy and some were complaining about the "explicit disturbing" sex scenes (there were sex scenes, but none of them were particularly explicit and only one of them was at all disturbing but so what?) Several people were complaining that it wasnt a suitiable book for adolecents because it is too dark and disturbing, and I'm like WTF, it isnt adolecent literature but not for that reason, Adlolecent literature does dark and distirbing really well, adlolecents thrive on dark and disturbing, In my studies for my dissertation i have read some much, much more disturbing stuff that is aimed at the teen market than this.

what do these people want. really? I never did see the point in reading fluff.