The Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?
Before modification by Chas at 30/08/2009 07:02:45 PM
Especially ones with excellent characters. I've read a lot of Bernard Cornwell and while his books are entertaining his characters are pretty much copy/pasted from one book into the next.
