"A Question of Attraction"

[fiefoe]

Though the first person narrator here is an alarmingly young man circa 1986, David Nicholls should still be filed under chick-lit, (chick-lit that I can sit through).

ASL:

• Tone loves that stuff; books with maps in the front, and cover illustrations of big, scary women in chain mail underwear, holding broadswords, the kind of woman that, in an ideal world, he'd marry. Which, in Southend, is actually a lot more feasible than you'd think.
• ... the harsh reality is that if you're a fan of Kate Bush, Charles Dickens, Scrabble and University Challenge, then there's not much out there for you in terms of a youth movement.
• He says that, but we're both aware that a ninety-minute compilation tape represents a good three hours of work, more if you're going to design an inlay card.
  
• It's a pretty good collection, but we don't have a proper hi-fi at home, so you can hear Mum shouting upstairs to tell me the chops are ready halfway through "The Man with the Child in His Eyes".
• No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.