Liked Kay's A Song for Arbonne a lot, although the one other thing I've read of his (The Fionavar Tapestry, his debut trilogy I think) was a bit shaky. As I recall its protagonists, from our world, ended up in a fantasy world so littered with prophecies that it seemed like they could barely sneeze without being…

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Certainly disagree with your first point - I've known plenty of Christians who were nice people and had a pretty upbeat take on the world and people in it.  Maybe in some arguable sense that wasn't consistent with their religion, but it's not like most of us don't have some inconsistencies in our supposed principles. …

I think it's quite a common theme even in relatively mainstream Christian evangelism: people are trying to live their lives without following God's plan, but we can't do anything right that way, so everything is supposedly getting worse and worse.

I liked it.  More a collection of slightly scattershot jokes (albeit good ones) than some single clever theme, and The Shining feels a bit over-referenced in pop culture already.  But the idea of taking the standard horror concept of "That creepy old place; it's been empty for years" and making it a Blockbuster Video…

I liked it.  More a collection of slightly scattershot jokes (albeit good ones) than some single clever theme, and The Shining feels a bit over-referenced in pop culture already.  But the idea of taking the standard horror concept of "That creepy old place; it's been empty for years" and making it a Blockbuster Video…

Root is a fine fellow and all, but I think Nick Offerman has this one locked down.

Root is a fine fellow and all, but I think Nick Offerman has this one locked down.

No doubt a whole generation who were children 8 years ago are looking forward to some closure on their life-scarring trauma.