Give it a shot. He avoids names for a specific narrative purpose, and he achieves a chilling effect. The first novel’s up there with the best of Phillip K. Dick. It’s wonderful, open ended and haunting. Personally, the fact that this narrative lacks a resolution is a strength.

Mmm, yeah. I’m going to be a Vegan now. Thanks a ton, IO9.

K-PAX. I loved the movie, but the book was awful. Just a tendentious, wooden mess.

Praise him!

Goes fetal. Mutters. "No...no....no...shhhh. It's ok. you're ok"

Yeah, I read Lovecraft the summer before I turned 13. Pretty much destroyed sleep for me, he did.

This. Oh my sweet baby cthulu, I laughed so hard I nearly squirted coke out of my nostrils.

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That would be this guy.

Oh my god, my ovaries just exploded.

Nothing I enjoy is good for me. Nothing. You know what? I. Don't. Care. Neither am I particularly interested in living to a ripe old age eating steamed veg, working out all the stinking time and not napping. I'll have my wine (screw one glass), I'll have my fattening foods, and I will have my naps, and I will die…

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This makes me suspect there is little up side to having a penis. Other than being able to write one's name in the snow, of course.

I enjoy reading Sherlock Holmes to Faure's Peleas et Melisande. It's just...nice.

F*&$ me in the ear with a meat cleaver, I have lost all will to live. Truly, if this movie is made, it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the non-existence of a benevolent and merciful god. Perhaps we should all just get ahead of the game and start sacrificing to the Great Old Ones.

It was a Hans Christian Andersen story, but the point's valid. Actually, even TBG toned down their stories. In the originals all of those evil step-moms were actual moms.

Well, paint me completely not surprised.

Possibly my favorite villain of all time. The movie version's pretty badass too.

And he actually does pull a lot of remarkable things out of the bag, even with all of that self doubt and lack of support.