I liked this book more than the reviewer, but I'd say that the review is pretty spot-on.

Is this from the same people who did the Obama does "Born This Way" mashup? That made me giggle, too.

It's a lot of fun, especially when it embraces its B-movieness instead of wrapping itself around its Barsoom mythology.

The only thing that made me more excited about this news was that Michael Pietsch will be editing this book.

Williams made it further than I did (as in: to the end). But I found I agreed with Lionel Shriver with a lot of stuff about the book:

Can't be any worse than "The Last Werewolf."

My argument isn't against the first person, it's against the proliferation of first person in YA literature. It's like the only one you see go through it.

This looks like the studio's trying to do what they did when they introduced the Spinosaurus in "Jurassic Park III" or Ashton Kutcher in the CBS show.

I liked them at first — like an old spy movie title sequence. Then they overstayed their welcome.

Green is one of the few YA authors I think worth his salt. Sure, he uses a lot of the tropes and conventions of the YA genre (for lack of a better term), but he does them well. Like first person, because Green's characters actually read/sound like characters rather than a stand-in POV for the author who thinks first…

Or, before he passed away, Pete Postlethwaite.

I say it every time someone posts a Pogo video, but "Living Island" is my favorite. And "Alohomora" and "Bangarang" and the one with all the princesses.

I'm actually confused as to why "The Help" is up there.

Enjoying the hell out of this collection.

After this playlist, I think I'll just stick with the "O Holy Night" cover from Sufjan. Or the highlights of that record.

My favorite description of "Underworld," though I don't necessarily agree with it, is from LIT CRIT HULK: "HULK JUST REALIZE DELILLO'S UNDERWORLD IS THE "WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE" OF AMERICAN LIT"

"Pafko on the Wall" and "Libra", I think, are the best things DeLillo's ever produced, and they both contribute to the themes he's obsessed with perfectly. The huge crowds and the way people are swayed and motivated in "Pafko," and the influence of media, the seeing of the self through media, the eventual disconnect…

I have a couple favorites, too:

My boyfriend had never seen "The Birdcage," so it was necessary to amend that. Which was O.K., because I think that's a great movie.

The Palme D'or not enough?