Members of my household often erupt Luke-I'm-Your-Father style with "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO." I'm absolutely delighted that I now have the proper description for it.

@Brandroid: Whoa.

@hercules_100_98: My thoughts exactly. You had me until Timberlake.

@Mr.Wake: SPOILERS! That bothered me, too. I understand not wanting to let Peter inject himself when he was healthy because of the burden Alex carries having had that happen to her. But the virus was able to stop Alicia from turning all the way into a viral. Wouldn't it have been valuable to keep them in the event of…

@junior ghoul: Well, the tape will have a self-destruct, of course ... just in case.

I'm forced to conclude that New Zealand really is magic.

@junior ghoul: I'll bring the black ski masks. You bring the crowbar. I assume we can wing it from there.

@ScavengerMonk: Awww, sad! And I obviously need to keep up a little better on paleontology news.

@manimatr0n: Oh, geez, that is serious. Did the poison cause the brontos to off themselves in increasingly comical ways?

@Jack B. Quick (jbq): All glory to the Hypnotoad!

@ScavengerMonk: Wait ... what happened to the brontosaurus? WHAT HAPPENED??

@junior ghoul: All of your ideas sound great. Urrgh, I want to read it right now!

@Jack B. Quick (jbq): From your lips to GRRM's ears. (GRRM? Who would be God in this scenario?)

@SupaChupacabra: I know! Hilarious musical disconnect.

@bookling: I don't remember specifics either, but it was fast.

@bookling: The fragility of paper was exactly my thought, too. Digitizing never occurred to me, but that's a great solution.

@tiredfairy: Plus, there are plenty of non-trashy romance novels out there that feature three-dimensional characters, engaging plots and nimble writing. Yet they're written off as crap by people who've never cracked open the spine of a single one. It's infuriating to have a hugely popular genre written off by both men…

@bookling: I know! Think about the world in the year 1000 and how rare and utterly foreign artifacts from that time are to us in 2010. It boggles my mind, and I'm hoping we get to see part of one of the books set in that period.

@junior ghoul: I'd love to hear about the experiences of people not in the know as the outbreak begins. How did the media report it? How did people respond? How long did it take for people to start believing?

2012? 2012?? I cannot possibly wait that long! He's created a fascinating world in a compulsively readable book, and I want more, more, more.