Books have thinking characters, right? A character could give a mental opinion about something, or think through his actions, it's not just described feeling there.
@GP, I have never read a book with italics used for thought, but there may be some differences in Dutch and English writing conventions. Same thing with the indents thing, I have never seen that.
When it comes to reading JP's, I'd like a paragraph (and preferably a whole post, but that may be too unreasonable) to written from one perspective. I don't like it when you can hear multiple thoughts in the same paragraph, and there is no real perspective you read from. I don't know how reasonable that is to expect from people, though.
oh no, that's not what i meant! the keyword there was 'describe' - i'd write my character's thoughts in a third-person perspective.
this i think is actually very interesting. in English books, are italics really used to indicate thought, like gimmepie mentioned? it seems strange to me, but it could be because i have just been exposed to the exact same books and way of writing that MorallyIncorrect has. i do remember reading English novels before and being surprised at some ways of formatting certain things, but sadly right now it's been too long for me to remember what exactly was so different ( ´ ▽ ` )ゞ