The real life person the character is based on is algerian, which might explain the mistake.

Unfortunately French cinema specializes in treacly, well intentioned comedies.Welcome to the Chtis and the Intouchables are just the tip of the iceberg (See La famille Bison this year for example). Generally the pull quotes on the commercials are lines like "a great lesson in humanity" or "Funny and heartwarming". To…

How else do you want to print libels by Voltaire in order to avoid the royal censors ?

His only reaction would be "I have no idea who that is"

I liked Grayson this week ! I thought it was fun and set the table for some nice stuff. Why did you find it disappointing (genuinely curious) ?

Upvoted because of the Dostoevsky dream. That's awesome. I absolutely loved reading the Brothers Karamazov. When I read it I was working on an archaeological dig, so basically it was very physical work from 8 to 6 followed by drunken revelry until 2 in the morning. I was so fascinated by the book I still managed to…

I know that as much as I like Neal Gaiman I was really put out by the art in the first trades. I just didn't like it. It made me put down the series. If it's possible to get past those first books, I'd like to know a good jumping point, though.

I like the Kanan series as well. It manages to be rather poignant, painting the main character as an utterly fucked up kid instead of some sort of teenage hero.

Hey, I was 13 ! As I said, I still don't get why I liked it so much. Teenage brains are weird I guess. I tried reading it again about a year ago and also found it hadn't aged gracefully. Didn't know there was a sequel though. I'll check it out.

1872 was a lot of fun, playing on all the Western tropes. I think I'll stick with it.

Zelazny was among my favourite teenage fantasy/SF reads, second only to Jack Vance. I really loved Amber and kept rereading Changeling for some reason.

For the thesis writing, sports help a lot if you need to get your brain going and sleep well at night. Especially a sport where you get to hit stuff, in my experience. (The advice sounds really trite, but hey…)

I see your point, but I'm saying that the message might only be what I saw in it, and not knowing Ayn Rand kept me from analyzing the movie through those specific lenses.

No novels or anything nice like that. Academic stuff I'm afraid.

Somewhere your boss is wiring the second half of the sum he promised on Great Job internet's hidden account in the Caimans.

I don't know. Sometimes when I can't concentrate on writing procrastinating here helps.

That seems a bit harsh on the Incredibles. Where I come from, almost nobody knows who Ayn Rand is (I had a first year student once who was a fan, but that's the only person I can think of). I had no idea Ayn Rand had even existed when I first saw the Incredibles, and I just saw it as something targeted at kids with…

What an answer below an article about comics related stuff.

He'll have a subtle name as well : Drunko, for example.

No, that'll be in The Amazing Teutonic Supernatural Western, in a few years.