*Or any other environment where one cannot completely lose oneself in one's book for fear of, say, missing one's plane. They're like the marshmallow Peeps of detective fiction--fun and silly but without a lot of substance and one is slightly embarrassed to admit that as an adult one actually likes them.
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Date: 2009-05-04 05:30 pm (UTC)*Or any other environment where one cannot completely lose oneself in one's book for fear of, say, missing one's plane. They're like the marshmallow Peeps of detective fiction--fun and silly but without a lot of substance and one is slightly embarrassed to admit that as an adult one actually likes them.