@miraclewhiphipster: Surprisingly few people still care what Bloom thinks. He has become a joke in the academy, a blowhard who is so infatuated with his own myth that no one else cares about him any more—he cares enough for all of us. I saw him publicly go after Sacvan Berkovitch when Sac was sitting right next to…

Munster & Bucky—That is so true. I think I tend to think of King's books as being entirely full of action, but they really do spend a lot of time with the characters just talking. I recently re-read The Shining and realized that almost nothing happens for pages on end, yet King still manages to keep ratcheting up…