InsaneJournal

Teeny Tiny Rant
What is this fascination?

Really.

Why, pray tell, do authors subject us poor, defenseless readers to excruciating detail when it comes to mundanity? Do I really need a blow-by-blow description of how Character X takes a shower/bath? How Studmuffin washes his hair twice, right like it says to on the label? Uses soap (of all things) with a specific scent? When it could have been handled with: A distracted Studmuffin returned to his rooms and took a shower, his thoughts never once ceasing to run around in circles.

No! We get as many as four or five paragraphs... for a bloody shower!

You know... unless there's well done wanking involved, or sex, why should anyone be subjected to this inane drivel?

Oh, wait! I know! It's because the author... is boring?

Okay, I will make an exception here. The obligatory long bath after being released/escaping from Azkaban. Nimby and I can live with that one.