Sarcasm is an adjusted stress reaction.

I adored The Wolves of Willoughby Chase back around 1978. I never knew at that time that there had been sequels, though I wanted to read the rest of the story. It took me until I was an adult to check on that, but now can't recall how many books were in the series, and I've never tracked them down. I really should do that, shouldn't I? ... Yes.

(Weird little detail: I remember classmates taunting me because I loved a book with Chase in the title, and one of the guys who despised me at that age had that as his last name, so this apparently meant something big to them. Uh-huh. Great way to try to wreck the memory of a good story...)