My vote goes for Stewart.

One of the most unsettling things of the book was that the big unveil was so obvious for the whole thing. Even if you didn't know about it, you'd go back and say, "Oh yeah, Ishiguro said it right here."

I would like to agree and say yes, "Paradise Lost" has some of the most breathtaking passages in English, prose or verse. Pay attention to the serpent slithering through the Garden of Eden, God showing Adam and Eve how the existence of the human race is going to play out, Lucifer ascending Hell to address his…

Yawn.

Millhauser has more depth and savory language than almost any other contemporary American author. It's just that in "Dressler", until that final humongous chapter, it's not as present. His sentences operate on levels that the AV Club hasn't seen since John Crowley, but he excels most in the short form, with…

Well, it's an act, isn't it?

I like their songs, but I think the album is terribly sequenced. Better just to hear a song here and there.

What about "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"? Didn't he do that? Or is that discounted for some reason? Or did that bomb too? How many of his movies have had their lives in cult theaters or DVDs?

O.K., I'm Hoping
I'm hoping that this one is at least better than the second.

I Thought
I thought that the grandfather character was a Holocaust survivor in the book? Or he escaped before it took place or something, came to New York, then lost his voice.

Only Scott Tobias hated "Scott Pilgrim."

Seconded on the Krakauer. It had the misfortune to drop the same day as that Dan Brown book, so it might have been swept under the radar. It's in paperback now, so go check it out.

'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.'

It's silly that no one here at the AV Club reviewed "Super Sad True Love Story", for instance.

"Scott Pilgrim" was tucked in the back at my theater, and there weren't a lot of times offered for it. That being said, the showing I went to was pretty packed.

I love the Penguin Classics covers. The black spine, orange lettering (American editions, obviously)…just classy. And the deluxe editions are fabulous. I'm not the biggest Frank Miller fan, but his "Gravity's Rainbow" is intricate and fascinating — not as great as the original orange Viking edition, but whatever.

Oh, I'm seconding the original post by the way.

Seconded.

@Penguin: That's precisely the reason why I hate reading James Ellroy. Tried "American Tabloid," for example, but it was a hodgepodge of nostalgia and violence and name-dropping.

Pretty Great Music
What I liked a lot was that the score blended the styles from the epic American glorious Western (Armadillo, in particular), to the spaghetti (Mexico), to the anti-Western (the northern chapters). And the music overlapped and played off and was pretty great.