I’m really sorry to hear this. I loved her and that movie when I was a kid.

Yes, I might have liked it better if I had read it. Reading “smucking” 5000 times would probably be less annoying than hearing it. ;)

I absolutely HATED Lisey’s Story. I listened to it as an audiobook, and that meant that I had to hear the words “smucking,” “bool,” “bad gunky,” “babylove” (HURL!) over and over and over again until it drove me crazy. The characters’ penchant for pet names, babytalk and patois for everything interfered with my ability…

That best friend sounds awful. To call you a “stupid cunt” over an argument over a name is beyond the pale. You’ve dodged a bullet with him.

To me, this woman looks biracial. Either her mother had an affair, or one or both of her parents were passing and have black ancestry themselves.

What kind of reasonable assumptions should minorities have about white people? That the white people will treat them well and with empathy and like fellow human beings? Or like potential criminals - no matter how old, young, weak, strong, upstanding, etc. one is — or like people who exist to serve them? If you’re…

You haven’t made any points at all. Again, you’re spouting bullshit - what you’ve said is not true at all. Suspects of all races are not routinely given fast food and gentle treatment. And when suspects are treated poorly, usually your ilk will say that he deserved it for committing a crime or not totally prostrating…

The simplest answer is that a white man who murders countless people is viewed as more human than a black man who is accused of selling loose cigarettes. Also, fuck you - a black man was shot while complying with an officer’s orders to get his id. So your bullshit about how respectful that piece of shit was while…

I also hate the way King writes romances into his books, full stop. It seems like every book of his lately features the middle-to-old aged man getting it on with the flawed, troubled, tragic beautiful young woman. That plot element is usually totally unnecessary and he’s not able to execute it in a non-creepy way.

Why aren’t you saying that he shouldn’t have broken the law if he didn’t want to go hungry? Isn’t that what people say when people wonder why Eric Garner wasn’t given medical aid when he complained that he couldn’t breathe? How about the guy who was shot by the old man who paid to ride with the police and hunt…

My grandpa’s whole family looked totally white, but were black. (The brothers all had a George Clooney in O Brother kind of look.) A few did pass, but most did retain their black identities.

Hmm, people like Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker could be considered both conventionally attractive, and at times like jolies laides. Their bodies are thin and fit, their hair is flowing, but their faces aren’t classically beautiful. They do, however, have an allure and charisma that make them stand out and…

Staying inside won’t even work.

No, because of his hideous voice, and because of the stupid things that voice says.

I don’t understand the hazing aspect of it, though. Perhaps I’m weird, but a group of people abusing me for a spell wouldn’t endear them to me later. How does that part work?

I get him mixed up in my head with Robert Herjavec, the guy from Shark Tank who was on Dancing with the Stars this past season. Both amiable-seeming, lightish haired, rich guys.

She's supposed to be adopted, right? So that's the explanation. What's the big deal?

Sibling still. All I have are half siblings, but I refer to them as brothers and sisters. The point is that one sibling can look completely white and another black and still call themselves brother and sister. Those kids have the same mom and are raised in the same household and have the same relationship as full…

Siblings

So the anger is because fans care so much about the lack of minorities in genre roles? That is bullshit, totally, judging from the freak outs anytime a minority character is introduced. When a Companion is black, fanboys freak out. People hated Gwen on Merlin and hated the pairing of Spock and Uhura in the new Star…