In Episode 7, everybody is like Luke: insanely altruistic, immediately
becoming best friend with the first people (or robots) they meet.

Plus it had basically zero impact as there was zero info on the guy. He was a pilot who got B-88 to safety and that's about it, definitely not enough to make anyone go "alright, he's back!".

He's not mad, just disappointed.

Meh, I remain skeptical, since that sounds just way too Freudian and
simplistic to me. Not to say that early childhood doesn't play a big
part in a person's development but as Dan has previously said, some
people develop spanking fetishes because they were spanked as
children and others even though they were never…

It should be completely grounded and swarming with magic robots!

Have to agree on Neverwhere. I started the audio book (which is read by Gaiman himself and he has a great, silky reading voice) but I couldn't be bothered to even finish disc three. I guess you have to be from/really like London or summin'.

Bought Shadow and Claw based on a recommendation somewhere on AVClub (but I had heard about it somewhere on the internets years ago) and it is seriously flipping awesome. I don't know if saying that it transcends the genre is trite (or inaccurate, I'm not sure it does) but they are enormously rich and readable stuff.…

Some of it was delightful - some of it was an exhausting grind of research-porno, delivered in monstrously huge, blocky paragraphs

The Culture is so, so awesome. I wrote my master's thesis on The Player of Games but nearly all books are simply wonderful. You might want to check out Iain's non-SF work too if you haven't already, especially the ones that are bordering on SF/Fantasy already, The Bridge and Song of Stone leap to mind.

*shows OK sign*
It stinks!

Hodor, hodored, Hodor?

King is a better short story writer than novelist at this point.

It is so awesome. I read it after being blown away by Cloud Atlas and even though it's just a story about growing up in eighties Britain, it's just as spellbinding.

If you like The Big Sleep, try The Long Goodbye next! Those are the best Chandler's in my books. The Lady in the Lake is ok too, though Marlowe is a different guy in that.

Almost done with Shadow of the Torturer and I have part two in the same volume, so I may or may not read that right away or perhaps crack open the copy of Gaiman's Anansi Boys I got out of the library. It seems like quick read.

And yet when he responds to a question in an unorthodox manner (i.e. recommending someone listens to some Broadway recordings, just throws in a non-sequitur one-liner), he's the worst person in the world.

Wow. This thing is amazing! And I already loved Chrissy a lot.

It's some nerd shit, who cares.

Wow. You're right, BR was released two years before Neuromancer. Holeee shit.

I gotta ask: what would you have preferred the ending to be?