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and a back up....plus a note book and a pen. 

I hate being caught with nothing to do.

I dont like being at a restaurant, waiting room or anywhere,  alone and get stuck staring at people or listening to other peoples conversations. 

That is exactly why I avoid any book that has a title that says "millionaire", or mentions the persons national origin (Greek, Itallian, mistress, etc).

I have read only a few Presents books, and decided I didnt like them, because of the traits you named above.

I dont stand for those traits in my real life and dont like them in ficticious characters.

But it is not just the men that bug me....

I also have a problem with the women in these books. The allow this type of behaviour.  So it continues to happen.  I just keep telling them to get a back bone.  

I like it tooo much.

I posted Jaynes flyer on all of my blogs, just to get the word out.

I would be reading anyway, even if this challenge wasnt going on. 

to know what is going on in the head of the author. 

If there is ever a Stephen King bio, what happens in his head has got to be pretty scary.

I dont know how his wife can sleep next to him at night.

when there is too much of the "Boy meets Girl" formula.

Boy meets girl, boy looses girl, boy gets girl.  The break up feels contrived (insert conflict here). then the reunion feels just as (make up here).

Another thing I dont like is that when the couple is together, but they still have to face the "big bad". Have the big showdown with who ever is trying to stand in their way.

we all put up with things in ficticious characters, what we wouldnt put up with in real life.

The character Bruce Willis played in "Moonlighting" was great. He was sexy, fast talking, cute...but i wouldnt have him  in my life.

Just like House.  Just because I can see that he is a genious, and I can see the reason the is the way that he is, doesnt mean I would let him get away with it. 

about the Presents line

The few I have read have had (usually) wealthy and/or powerful men as the "hero". 

The "heroine" (as the man sees it), wronged him in some way. 

So....the man feels he has to either A) bully B) blacmail C) Manipulate or or D) all of the above, the woman. Some times it is physical mostly it is emotional.

He has to assert his "manhood" his "machismo".  But somewhere along the way, he realizes he still loves her and wants her back. 

And what makes me even angrier is that the woman falls for it.  She falls for the blackmail and manipulation.  Where is the pride? where is the backbone in these women?

Usually, the reason (as far as I have read), she left or "wronged" the man in the first place is because he was a bully. So why does she go back?

But I guess that goes on in real life...the man treats the woman like shit, but all she can say is "but I love him".  "he'll change".  "its better than being alone".  "at least I have a man", etc.

to bring the country together, united in song.

years ago, I participated in something called "Hands Accross America".  Where we stood hand in hand with the whole country. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Across_America

It was really fun.  It raised awareness and money for hunger and poverty in the world.  We even sang an impromptu  "We Are the World" while standing in the middle of the street.

yes...totally hot.

Everytime I talk to him, I just stutter and utter nonsense words. Cant even look him in the eye.