No love on this side of town

I love reading. I’ll try to read any genre once. But over the years, I’ve found that one element ruins a book for me: a love story. Romance bores me. To me, it’s about as interesting as a Hydroxycut review and probably just as confusing. It’s rare that I find a book or a story that doesn’t incorporate romance in it. Probably because love makes people more human and all that crap. But to me, it’s an unimportant plot device. I’m not jaded. I just don’t like reading about other people’s love lives. That, and I’d rather read about maiming.