nonionay | Random revelation about plot

I'm reading The Lonely Polygamist, and I had a revelation. You see, The Lonely Polygamist is one of those books with minimal plot, and maximal Characters Living Their Absurd and Dismal Lives. It's certainly interesting and emotional and well done, a little too much. I'm sensitive, and experiencing so much emotion bothers me. Emotion is like icing to me. Sometimes, I'm willing to eat a spoonful of icing straight from the jar, but the whole thing...? Ugh.

And that's the nice thing about plot. No matter the depths and heights of emotion characters experience, there's always something keeping my brain occupied, and there's a rope in the sticky bowl of frosting that I can keep pulling myself forward on.