I'm not hating on plot as such, just pointing out that it's strange to criticize McCarthy's narratives as "flat," when it's pretty clear that flatness is the point. He's not trying to write compelling, realist novels in which characters leap off the page, change and grow, and all that 19th century stuff; he's tacking…

I haven't read this, but McCarthy certainly seems more about concept than plot, (Remainder was about weird ideas more than anything else) so it seems odd to review this as if it were something like a traditional novel. Also, the repetitions of of "eye" and "exacting" were annoying, given the limited word count.…

Blech
Love how Perlman puts a long 'y' in 'prophesy.' Hate everything else. Especially Guy Who Laughed's half-assed imitation of Keanu Reeves at his worst.

That one where she was in love with gay Paul Rudd was TERRIBL-ly watchable!

Why bother with either?

Above comment meant to be in response to this one. Fa!

No matter how hard you try, your immature, stunted lifestyle is not a scathing condemnation of the capitalist system.

I thought part of the point of Against the Day was that it SUPPOSED to read like Sinclair, and Alger, and Uris, and Grey, and Michner, etc. that it was a huge amalgam of popular fiction in the early to mid 20th century.

Fuck the man!
It's a testament to Dick's abilities that someone so hopelessly enmeshed in the hippie vs. the world Vietnam mindset could produce work that doesn't seem hilariously dated a to modern eyes. Anyone who's tried to read Terry Southern can relate.
There's a blurb on several of my copies of Dick's books…

Flip Wilson's involved with soccer?

No ones mentioned Charles Grodin or Beethoven yet
Which is a CRIME!
I edit the Marmaduke strip, and I'm not even going to see this klunker.
All they had to do was have the Duke steal food, make huge messes, molest William H. Macy and generally wreak all sorts of havoc, and it would have been great. But instead they had…

These are interesting points, but they may indicate that Hess was too close to his material; he couldn't sit back and recognize when something was really failing to come across. And because he wrote it along with his wife, there was no other party to tell him what had gone so deeply, deeply wrong.
I haven't seen this…

Gremlins 2 is the real deal. CIMN, considering the inept construction of your first "sentence" I would urge you to perhaps reevaluate your "critical faculties."

Anyone who brags about how they write only for themselves on a board completely unrelated to their b.s. is either seriously deluded, a prankster pretending to be a half-crazy autodidact, or just an idiot. Hey Doc, if that is your real name, if you don't give a shit about the public, let us talk about real authors in…

Ben Raitliff's stuff for the Times is some of the best music writing out there.

Is there really any such thing as sacrifice, if everyone just ends up giving each other high-fives in heaven, anyway?
A show like this is built on the unknown, which ultimately boils down to death. If take away death's sting by showing a happy afterlife, you've effectively co-opted everything that made the story run.
A…

Give me a break
Future creators of long-running dramatic series will be promising "no cast reunions in heaven" for the finales.

I agree that his weak spot seems to be sex: The Man Who Fell to Earth had some really jarring and/or incredibly cheesy effin' scenes that really ran the movie into the sands. The one in Don't Look Now, (which is an awesome, unbelievably creepy film) is terrific, and does a lot for the story, but its crazy explicitness…

PS: Page 2? I don't believe there's any such thing.

All that tinny reverb does does sound SWASS coming out of a turntable and late '70s amp.