"I've also grown weary of reading about clouds in a book. Doesn't this piss you off? You're reading a nice story, and suddenly the writer has to stop and describe the clouds. Who cares? I'm not interested. Skip the clouds and get to the fucking. The only story I know of where clouds are important was Noah's Ark!"
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